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Regional convergence clusters across Europe
Megir, Costas; Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995
Per capita incomes across European regions are not equal and do not stay constant; regional income distributions uctuate over time. Such a process could have many possible limiting outcomes: complete equal- ity (convergence), stratication, and continually increasing inequality are but three...
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It's not what you make, it's how you use IT: measuring the welfare benefits of the IT revolution across countries
Bayoumi, Tamim; Haacker, Maarkus - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper analyzes the welfare benefits from falling relative prices of IT (information technology) goods across a wide range of countries. We find, using two separate methodologies and datasets, that welfare benefits mainly accrue to users of IT, not their producers, because of falling...
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R&D and absorptive capacity : theory and empirical evidence
Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
industry-level data. R&D affects both innovation and the assimilation of others’ discoveries (‘absorptive capacity’). Long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884730
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Technological diversification
Koren, Miklos; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Economies at early stages of development are often shaken by abrupt changes in growth rates, whereas in advanced economies growth rates tend to be relatively stable. To explain this pattern, we propose a theory of technological diversification. Production makes use of different input varieties,...
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Mapping prices into productivity in multisector growth models
Ngai, L. Rachel; Samaniego, Roberto M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
Two issues related to mapping a multi-sector model into a reduced-form value-added model are often neglected: the composition of intermediate goods, and the distinction between value added productivity and gross output productivity. We demonstrate their quantitative significance for the case of...
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Matching demand and supply in a weightless economy : market-driven creativity with and without IPRs
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …
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Digital goods and the new economy
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …
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Ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK: evidence from patents microdata
Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do … ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …
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Measuring the cost effectiveness of an R&D tax credit for the UK
Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …
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Happiness in transition: the case of Kyrgyzstan
Namazie, Ceema; Sanfey, Peter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998
We analyse self-reported measures of satisfaction with life in a transition country, Kyrgyzstan, using 1993 household survey data. We test whether higher levels of satisfaction are associated with greater economic well-being. This hypothesis is strongly supported by the data. Unhappiness is...
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