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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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Quantifying spillovers in open source content production: evidence from Wikipedia

Aaltonen, Aleksi Ville; Seiler, Stephan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Using detailed edit-level data over eight years across a large number of articles on Wikipedia, we find evidence for a positive spillover effect in editing activity. Cumulative past contributions, embodied by the current article length, lead to significantly more editing activity, while...

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Diversity and specialisation in cities: why, where and when does it matter?

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

specialisation and diversity? To what extent does the structure of cities, and the activities of the firms and people in them, change …

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Social identity and redistributive preferences: a survey

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

Social identity is increasingly accepted as a key concept underpin- ning the endogeneity of economic behaviour and preferences. This feature is especially important in explaining redistribution preferences as well as attitudes towards redistribution and pro-social behaviour. This paper carries...

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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...

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Immigrant diversity and economic development in cities: a critical review

Kemeny, Thomas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper reviews a growing literature investigating how ‘immigrant’ diversity relates to urban economic performance …

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Voice, silence, and diversity in 21st century organizations: strategies for inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender employees

Bell, Myrtle P.; Özbilgin, Mustafa F.; Beauregard, T. … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

insufficient attention to diversity of workers (Rank, 2009). As invisible minorities, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT …

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Diversity and redistribution

Fernández, Raquel; Levy, Gilat - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

) goods. We show that taste conflict first dilutes but later reinforces class interests. When the degree of taste diversity is …. As taste diversity increases in society, the set of equilibrium policies becomes more and more tilted towards special … interest groups and against general redistribution. As diversity increases further, however, only general redistribution …

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New housing supply and the dilution of social capital

Hilber, Christian A. L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper examines the role of local housing market conditions for social capital accumulation and neighborhood club good provision. A model of individual investment decisions predicts that in a setting with high property transaction costs (i) homeowners are more likely to invest in social...

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Social Capital and Public Policy in Greece.

Paraskevopoulos, Christos J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Social capital has emerged as a key concept on the social sciences in general and political science/public policy in particular over the last two decades or so, because, by facilitating collective action among the actors, it leads to increased levels of performance in several public policy areas...

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