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Why do management practices differ across firms and countries?

Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Economists have long puzzled over the astounding differences in productivity between firms and countries. For example, looking at disaggregated data on U.S. manufacturing industries, Syverson (2004a) found that plants at the 90th percentile produced four times as much as the plant in the 10th...

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Lisbon five years later: what future for European employment and growth?

Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

At the Lisbon summit of 2000 the European Union (EU) set an agenda for making Europe the most competitive economy in …

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Regional Distribution and Spatial Impact of FDI in Greece: evidence from firm-level data

Monastiriotis, Vassilis; Jordaan, Jacob A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Studies on the productivity spillovers of FDI have concentrated on the national-sectoral level. As a result, little is … known about the impact of FDI on absolute and relative regional economic performance. In this paper we examine this issue by … regions. In this way, despite the tendency of FDI to concentrate in a few only areas within the country –those of the highest …

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Strategies and counter-strategies: China in the Andean region of South America

Chimienti, Ádam; Creutzfeldt, Benjamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

By employing a comparative method that analyzes China’s increasing presence in different Latin America countries, this study explores key features and implications of Beijing’s approach towards this region. Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are used as case studies to evaluate China’s diplomatic...

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Concentration, agglomeration and the size of plants

Lafourcade, Miren; Mion, Giordano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper investigates whether the geographic distribution of manufacturing activities depends on the size of plants. Using Italian data, we find, as in Kim [Kim, S., 1995. Expansion of markets and the geographic concentration of economic activities: the trends in U.S. regional manufacturing...

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Product choice and product switching

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper develops a model of endogenous product selection by firms. The theory is motivated by new evidence we present on the importance of product switching by U.S. manufacturers. Two-thirds of continuing firms change their product mix every five years, and product switches involve more than...

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Strengthening economic linkages between Leeds and Manchester: feasibility and implications (structural model appendix)

Mion, Giordano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This technical Appendix describes the structural model used as part of the Spatial Eco- nomic Research Centre's work for the Northern Way on linkages between the Manchester and Leeds City Regions. A summary of the research, as well as a full report of the findings, can be found on the web-sites...

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Multi-product firms and product switching

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter.K - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper examines the frequency, pervasiveness and determinants of product switching among U.S. manufacturing firms. We find that two-thirds of firms alter their mix of five-digit SIC products every five years, that one-third of the increase in real U.S. manufacturing shipments between 1972...

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Theories of heterogeneous firms and trade

Redding, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper reviews the recent theoretical literature on heterogeneous firms and trade, whichemphasizes firm selection into international markets and reallocations of resources acrossfirms. We discuss the empirical challenges that motivated this research and its relationship totraditional trade...

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Trade and growth with heterogeneous firms

Baldwin, Robert; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper explores the impact of trade on growth when firms are heterogeneous. We find that greater openness produces anti-and pro-growth effects. The Melitz-model selection effects raises the expected cost of introducing a new variety and this tends to slow the rate of new-variety introduction...

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