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Mapping the two faces of R&D : productivity growth in a panel of OECD industries

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

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Research and Productivity Growth Across Industries

Ngai, L. Rachel; Samaniego, Roberto M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

What factors underlie industry differences in research intensity and productivity growth? We develop a multisector growth model using standard parameters to capture the main factors considered in the empirical R&D and productivity growth literature. Along the balanced growth path, we find that...

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Measuring organization capital in Japan: an empirical assessment using firm-level data

Miyagawa, Tsutomu; Kim, YoungGak - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Globalization and the ICT revolution of the 1990s have forced many firms to reorganize in order to survive in a more competitive market. There are several approaches that can be used to assess the measurement of organization capital since it is unobservable. Using an optimizing firm model and...

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An R&D-based model of multi-sector growth

Ngai, L. Rachel; Samaniego, Roberto M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We develop a multi-sector general equilibrium model in which productivity growth is driven by the production of sector-specific knowledge. In the model, we find that long run differences in total factor productivity growth across sectors are independent of the parameters of the knowledge...

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Between Enlargement-led Europeanisation and Balkan Exceptionalism: an appraisal of Bulgaria’s and Romania’s entry into the European Union

Papadimitriou, Dimitris; Gateva, Eli - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

The accession of Bulgaria and Romania into the European Union (EU) in 2007 offers significant theoretical and empirical … sought to influence domestic reform in the two countries through a mix of threats and rewards. What emerges from Bulgaria … the considerable EU discretion in the manner of its implementation. In that sense Bulgaria and Romania, as ‘outliers’ of …

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When Foreign Direct Investment is Good for Development: Bulgaria’s accession, industrial restructuring and regional FDI

Bozhilova, Diana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This article examines the dynamic between the process of Bulgaria’s European Union accession and the flow of Foreign … major source of strategic regional investments in Bulgaria’s industry highlighting the significance of regional trade and …

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The Emergence of Regional Policy in Bulgaria: regional problems, EU influences and domestic constraints

Monastiriotis, Vassilis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

process. Regional policy in Bulgaria has for all analytical purposes been notably absent in the 1990s and only started shaping … Bulgaria reflects strongly the EU influence and shows little sensitivity to, and appreciation of, the main regional and spatial … regional policy in Bulgaria by evaluating the nature of regional disparities in the country, examining the development of …

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When foreign direct investment is good for development: Bulgaria’s accession, industrial restructuring and regional FDI

Bozhilova, Diana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744962

Comparative advantage and heterogeneous firms

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper presents a model of international trade that features heterogeneous firms, relative endowment differences across countries, and consumer taste for variety. The paper demonstrates that firm reactions to trade liberalization generate endogenous Ricardian productivity responses at the...

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Economic geography and international inequality

Redding, Stephen; Venables, Anthony J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

This paper estimates a structural model of economic geography using cross-country data on per capita income, bilateral trade, and the relative price of manufacturing goods. More than 70% of the variation in per capita income can be explained by the geography of access to markets and to sources...

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