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Education, inequality and income inequality
Checchi, Daniele - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
In this paper we propose to measure inequality of educational achievements by constructing a Gini index on educational attainments. We then use the proposed measure to analyse the relationship between inequality in incomes and educational achievements (in terms of both the average attainments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745976
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Survive another day: does uncertain financing affect the composition of investment?
Garicano, Luis; Steinwender, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
); reduce investment drastically (by 19); and reduce very substantially process innovation and information technology investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746023
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The territorial dynamics of innovation in China and India
Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Storper, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This article analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is … contrast, innovation is much more dependent on a combination of good local socioeconomic structures and investment in science …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125988
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Internet cluster emergence
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
Internet development holds the promise of transmitting economic value across physical space at zero marginal cost. In such a “weightless economy”, what factors matter for the location of economic activity and thus for economic development? This paper sketches a model of spatial dynamics over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071307
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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
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Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries
Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival...
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Is distance dying at last?
Griffith, Rachel; Lee, Sokbae; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
Economists have long been sceptical of claims about the 'death of distance' - the idea that new technology has diminished the significance of geography for economic outcomes. Research by Sokbae Lee, Rachel Griffith and John Van Reenen, which looks at patent citations over a quarter of a century,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744875
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Strategic patenting and software innovation
Noel, Michael; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on R&D, patenting and market value in the computer … evidence that both strategic patenting and R&D spillovers strongly affect innovation and market value of software firms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744919
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The impact of private ownership, incentives and local development objectives on university technology transfer performance
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
We study the impact of private ownership, incentive pay and local development objectives on university licensing performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together with panel data on U.S. universities for 1995-99. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744928
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Innovation and institutional ownership
Aghion, Philippe; Van Reenen, John; Zingales, Luigi - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745303