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Globalisation, ICT and the nitty gritty of plant level datasets

Martin, Ralf - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

The net entry contribution to aggregate productivity growth has increased dramatically in the UK over 1990s according to calculations based on data from the Annual Respondents Database (ARD). Some recent studies have tried to link this to other structural changes over the same period such as...

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Can Firms Grow Without Credit? Evidence from the Euro Area, 2005-2011: A Quantile Panel Analysis

Dimelis, Sophia Dimelis, Ioannis Giotopoulos and Helen Louri - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

This paper explores the effects of bank credit on firm growth before and after the recent financial crisis, taking into account different structural characteristics of banking sectors and domestic economies. Panel quantile analysis is used on a sample of 2075 euro area firms in 2005- 2011. The...

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Can firms grow without credit?: evidence from the Euro Area, 2005-2011: a quantile panel analysis

Dimelis, Sophia; Giotopoulos, Ioannis; Louri, Helen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

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Can labour regulation hinder economic performance? Evidence from India

Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper investigates whether the industrial relations climate in Indian States has affected the pattern of manufacturing growth in the period 1958-92. We show that pro-worker amendments to the Industrial Disputes Act are associated with lowered investment, employment, productivity and output...

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Outsourcing and the rise in services

Berlingieri, Giuseppe - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of outsourcing on sectoral reallocation in the U.S. over the period 1947-2007, and on the rise in services in particular. Roughly 40% of the growth of the service sector comes from professional and business services. This is an unusual industry as more than 90%...

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Product market deregulation and the U.S. employment miracle

Ebell, Monique; Haefke, Christian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and individual bargaining. We calibrate the model to US data and...

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Timeliness, trade and agglomeration

Harrigan, James; Venables, Tony - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

An important element of the cost of distance is time taken in delivering final and intermediate goods. We argue that time costs are qualitatively different from direct monetary costs such as freight charges. The difference arises because of uncertainty. Unsynchronised deliveries can disrupt...

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Empirics for growth and distribution

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

This paper studies cross-country patterns of economic growth from the viewpoint of income distribution dynamics. Such a perspective raises new empirical and theoretical issues in growth analysis: the profound empirical regularity is an \emerging twin peaks" in the cross-sectional distribution,...

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On the detrimental impact of visa restrictions on bilateral trade and foreign direct investment

Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This article estimates the effect of visa restrictions on bilateral trade flows and foreign direct investment (FDI …, which is detrimental to trade and FDI. Employing a standard gravity-type model in a global dyadic country sample, I estimate … place by the partner country, this lowers bilateral trade and FDI by up to 19 and 25 per cent, respectively. If both …

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Did globalisation aid industrial development in colonial India? A study of knowledge transfer in the iron industry

Roy, Tirthankar - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

The article explores the link between international economic integration and technological capability in colonial India. The example of the iron industry shows that many new ideas and skills flowed into India from Europe, but not all met with commercial success. The essay suggests a reason why....

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