Similar Search Results

Enhancing students’ engagement through effective feedback, assessment and engaging activities

Kotecha, Meena - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper is about students’ perceptions of mathematics and statistics and their impact on students’ engagement …, enthusiasm and academic self-efficacy. I will discuss the strategies I developed to improve learning and teaching in statistics … and mathematics service course classes, consisting of 15 students each, some of which also worked extremely well in my …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745951

Environmental prices, uncertainty and learning

Dietz, Simon; Fankhauser, Samuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

There is an increasing demand for putting a shadow price on the environment to guide public policy and incentivise private behaviour. In practice, setting that price can be extremely difficult as uncertainties abound. There is often uncertainty not just about individual parameters but about the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884522

Technology, information and the decentralization of the firm

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Lelarge, Claire; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884642

The lifecycle of the financial sector and other speculative industries

Biais, Bruno; Rochet, Jean-Charles; Woolley, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Speculative industries exploit novel technologies subject to two risks. First, there is uncertainty about the fundamental value of the innovation: is it strong or fragile? Second, it is difficult to monitor managers, which creates moral hazard. Because of moral hazard, managers earn agency rents...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744809

Productivity, exporting and the learning-by-exporting hypothesis: direct evidence from UK firms

Crespi, Gustavo; Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

innovation is that we also have direct data on the sources of learning (in this case about new technologies). Controlling for … they learnt from buyers (relative to learning from other sources). Second, firms who had learned from buyers (more than … for the learning-by-exporting hypothesis. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744844

Nursery cities: urban diversity, process innovation and the life-cycle of products

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

A simple model of process innovation is proposed, where firms learn about their ideal production process by making prototypes. We build around this a dynamic general equilibrium model, and derive conditions under which diversified and specialised cities coexist. New products are developed in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745492

Uncertainty and leveraged Lucas Trees: the cross section of equilibrium volatility risk premia

Vedolin, Andrea - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Volatility risk premia compensate agents for holding assets whose payoffs correlate with times of high return variation. This paper takes a structural approach to explain the cross-section of volatility risk premia of stocks using a Lucas orchard with heterogeneous beliefs, stochastic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745732

Study on university-business cooperation in the US

Ranga, Marina; Hoareau, Cecile; Durazzi, Niccolo; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

also encompasses both undergraduate and postgraduate education, as well as lifelong learning. The interactions no longer …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746458

Self-confidence and survival

Bar-Isaac, Heski - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

We consider the impact of history on the survival of a monopolist selling single units in discrete time periods, whose quality is learned slowly. If the seller learns her own quality at the same rate as customers, a sufficiently bad run of luck could induce her to stop selling. When she knows...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746467

Environmental prices, uncertainty, and learning

Dietz, Simon; Fankhauser, Samuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

There is an increasing demand for putting a shadow price on the environment to guide public policy and incentivize private behaviour. In practice, setting that price can be extremely difficult as uncertainties abound. There is often uncertainty not just about individual parameters but about the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126224