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Railroads of the Raj: estimating the impact of transportation infrastructure

Donaldson, Dave - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

How large are the benefits of transportation infrastructure projects, and what explains these benefits? To shed new light on these questions, I collect archival data from colonial India and use it to estimate the impact of India's vast railroad network. Guided by six predictions from a general...

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Access all areas? The impact of fees and background on student demand for postgraduate higher education in the UK

Wales, Philip - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper analyses participation in postgraduate higher education in the UK at the micro-level makes several contributions to the literature. Firstly, it describes trends in postgraduate participation in the UK. Secondly, it introduces a hitherto unavailable dataset of postgraduate tuition fees...

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Estimating features of a distribution from binomial data

Lewbel, Arthur; Linton, Oliver; McFadden, D. L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

A statistical problem that arises in several fields is that of estimating the features of an unknown distribution, which may be conditioned on covariates, using a sample of binomial observations on whether draws from this distribution exceed threshold levels set by experimental design....

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Ownership and managerial competition: employee, customer, or outside ownership

Bolton, Patrick; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

This paper centres around the question of ownership of firms and managerial competition and how these affect managers … affected by both ownership and competition since both ownership structure and competition provide bargaining chips to employees … fierce market competition and no lock-in the allocation of ownership does not play a role (as one might expect), provided …

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Convergence of firm-level productivity, globalisation, information technology and competition: evidence from France

Chevalier, Paul-Antoine; Lecat, Rémy; Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

stylised facts are considered: globalisation, information technology, and competition. Globalisation and information technology … may have benefited the most productive firms more and the growth of competition may at the same time have stimulated the …

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Competition and opportunistic advice of financial analysts: theory and evidence

Sette, Enrico - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

competition, measured as the strength of coverage of a stock from other analysts. The interaction among analysts and investors is …

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Automobile replacement: a dynamic structural approach

Schiraldi, Pasquale - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper specifies and estimates a structural dynamic model of consumer demand for new and used durable goods. Its primary contribution is to provide an explicit estimation procedure for transaction costs, which are crucial to capturing the dynamic nature of consumer decisions. In particular,...

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Regulated and non-regulated companies, technology adoption in experimental markets for emission permits, and options contracts

Chesney, Marc; Taschini, Luca; Wang, Mei - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper examines the investment strategies of regulated companies in abatement technologies, market participants' trading behaviors, and the liquidity level in an inter-temporal cap{and{trade market using laboratory experiments. The experimental analysis is performed under varying market...

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Investment, R&D and financial constraints in Britain and Germany

Bond, Stephen; Harhoff, Dietmar; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper tests for the importance of cash flow on investment in fixed capital and R&D using firm-level panel data in two countries between 1985 and 1994. For German firms, cash flow is not informative in simple econometric models of fixed investment or R&D. In identical specifications for...

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Semiparametric estimation of a binary response model with a change-point due to a covariate threshold

Lee, Sokbae; Seo, Myung Hwan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper is concerned with semiparametric estimation of a threshold binary response model. The estimation method considered in the paper is semiparametric since the parameters for a regression function are finite-dimensional, while allowing for heteroskedasticity of unknown form. In...

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