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Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering. Economic activity is not concentrated on discrete...

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Transnational spatial dependencies in the geography of non-resident patent filings

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

This article provides new insights into how geography shapes spatiotemporal variations in the propensity of actors from particular countries to file for non-resident patents in specific foreign economies. Our major contribution is to show that, in addition to bilateral exports and outward...

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Digital goods and the new economy

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Digital goods are bitstrings, sequences of 0s and 1s, which have economic value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics: digital goods are nonrival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial, and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital goods...

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Education and health knowledge: evidence from UK compulsory schooling reforms

Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … of health knowledge. For causal identification we use increases in the UK minimum school leaving age in 1947 (from 14 to … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …

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Knowledge-based hierarchies: using organizations to understand the economy

Garicano, Luis; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We argue that incorporating the decision of how to organize the acquisition, use, and communication of knowledge into … knowledge-based hierarchies to study issues like the evolution of wage inequality, the growth and productivity of firms …

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Cross-country growth comparison : theory to empirics

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

of knowledge and technology in economic growth. …

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Hayek on the wisdom of prices: a reassessment

Bronk, Richard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper re-examines Hayek’s insights into the problem of knowledge in markets, and argues that his analysis remains … coordinating transactions wherever knowledge is dispersed and innovation renders the future uncertain—remains a potent explanation … and tacit knowledge has important but widely ignored implications for the contemporary use of statistics in financial risk …

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Research and development, spillovers, innovation systems, and the genesis of regional growth in Europe

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Crescenzi, Riccardo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

diffusion of regional knowledge spillovers. These complementary approaches have, however, rarely been combined. Important … regional innovation systems, and knowledge and socio-economic spillovers. This approach allows the discrimination between the … influence of internal factors and external knowledge and institutional flows on regional economic growth. The empirical results …

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The broadening spectrum of reputation risk in organizations: banking on risk and trust relationships

Scott, Susan V.; Walsham, Geoff - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Globalizing knowledge economies foster conditions that intensify the role and value of organizational reputation risk … encompasses the dynamics of contemporary risk and trust relationships. We explore the capacity of different trust forms to reduce … complexity concerning the future and examine the potential of ‘active trust development’ as an approach to the management of …

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Banking on trust: managing reputation risk in financial service organizations

Scott, Susan V.; Walsham, Geoff - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

immediate business threats rather than trying to understand cumulative or constituent processes surrounding trust relationships …. We explore the notion of ‘active trust’ as a way of redesigning approaches to the management of risk. Our analysis …

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