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Investing for prosperity: skills, infrastructure and innovation
Besley, Timothy; Coelho, Miguel; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
, major weaknesses with respect to long-run investment in human capital, infrastructure and innovation remain. These are … as more flexibility in schooling with a new focus on disadvantage; a new architecture for national infrastructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125977
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Capital markets, ownership and distance
Carlin, Wendy; Charlton, Andrew; Mayer, Colin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This paper uses a new data-set to examine how internal capital markets and foreign ownership affect investment. Our … data allow us to compare investment behaviour of listed subsidiaries with stand-alone firms while controlling for … investment opportunities of parent and subsidiary firms. We evaluate how the size of ownership and the geographical proximity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884649
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Unit root test in a threshold autoregression: asymptotic theory and residual-based block bootstrap
Seo, Myung Hwan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
There is a growing literature on unit root testing in threshold autoregressive models. This paper makes two contributions to the literature. First, an asymptotic theory is developed for unit root testing in a threshold autoregression, in which the errors are allowed to be dependent and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928673
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Productivity growth and employment: theory and panel estimates
Pissarides, Christopher; Vallanti, Giovanna - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
technology is embodied in new jobs. We estimate a model for employment, wages and investment with an annual panel for the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928604
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The Conflict Trap in the Greek Civil War 1946-1949: An economic approach
Christodoulakis, Nicos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
The paper provides a quantitative analysis of the armed confrontation that took place in Greece between the Communist Party and the Centre-Right Government during 1946-1949. Using monthly data for battle casualties a dynamic Lotka-Volterra framework is estimated, pointing to the existence of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754017
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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 the world. The targets that were set then are unlikely to be achieved. European countries need to concentrate on change in the lower productivity, more labour-intensive service...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745346
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Medicines in parallel trade in the European Union: a gravity specification
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Kanavos, Panos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
While recent research has explored the phenomenon of drug parallel trade in regulated environments such as the European Union (EU), or the European Economic Area, little is known about the mechanisms that explain its origin or the role of the distribution chain in exporting and importing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745350
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Productivity growth and the role of ICT in the United Kingdom: an industry view, 1970-2000
Oulton, Nicholas; Srinivasan, Sylaja - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
evidence that a boom in complementary investment in the 1990s could have led to a decline in the conventional measure of TFP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745929
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The conflict trap in the Greek Civil War 1946-1949: an economic approach
Christodoulakis, Nicos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
The paper provides a quantitative analysis of the armed confrontation that took place in Greece between the Communist Party and the Centre-Right Government during 1946-1949. Using monthly data for battle casualties a dynamic Lotka-Volterra framework is estimated, pointing to the existence of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126480
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Anthropometric dividends of Czechoslovakia’s break up
Costa-Font, Joan; Kossarova, Lucia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide institutional reform on well-being. Changes in population heights are regarded as virtuous pointers of well-being improvements in psycho-social environments, which improve with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126654