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The effect of the UK stamp duty land tax on household mobility

Hilber, Christian A. L.; Lyytikainen, Teemu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

We estimate the effect of the UK Stamp Duty Land Tax on household mobility using micro data. Exploiting a discontinuity in the tax schedule as a quasi-experimental setting, we isolate the impact of the stamp duty from other determinants of mobility. Our empirical strategy essentially compares...

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How significant are fiscal interactions in designing federations?: a meta-regression analysis

Costa-i-Font, Joan; De-Albuquerque, Filipe; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

The economics literature has traditionally advocated that “governments compete”, and hence one should expect non-negligible fiscal interactions between and among different levels of government. This paper uses meta-regression analysis to quantify the size of inter-jurisdictional fiscal...

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Fiscal federalism and European health system decentralization: a perspective

Costa-i-Font, Joan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

How does fiscal decentralisation affect the development of a health system? Evidence from health care decentralisation in Europe can offer some insights to the question above. This paper addresses the effects of health care decentralisation in Europe, and reviews some of the key questions on the...

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Basic research and sequential innovation

Belenzon, Sharon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

problem of underinvestment in basic research is confirmed: spillovers of more general knowledge (and in this respect, more …

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Peer effects in science: evidence from the dismissal of scientists in Nazi Germany

Waldinger, Fabian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This paper analyzes peer effects among university scientists. Specifically, it investigates whether the number of peers and their average quality affects the productivity of researchers in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The usual endogeneity problems related to estimating peer effects are...

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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry

Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Government policies to support R&D are predicated on empirical evidence of R&D "spillovers" between firms. But there … are two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business … stealing by product market rivals. We develop a general framework showing that technology and product market spillovers have …

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Geographic concentration and the temporal scope of agglomeration economics: an index decomposition

Wren, Colin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

are fixed over reasonably long time periods, but if spillovers have a limited temporal scope then this can be used to …

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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry

Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years …. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive … effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and a negative business stealing effects from product market rivals. We develop …

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Infrastructure and regional growth in the European Union

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Transport infrastructure has represented one of the cornerstones of development and cohesion strategies in the European Union (EU) and elsewhere in the world. However, despite the considerable funds devoted to it, its impact remains controversial. This paper revisits the question of to what...

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Fracking growth

Fetzer, Thiemo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of the shale oil and gas boom in the United States on local economic outcomes. The main source of exogenous variation to be explored is the location of previously unexplored shale deposits. These have become technologically recoverable through the use of hydraulic...

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