Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 95
Cover Image
Knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies
Dechezlepretre, Antoine; Martin, Ralf; Mohnen, Myra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
How much should governments subsidize the development of new clean technologies? We use patent citation data to investigate the relative intensity of knowledge spillovers in clean and dirty technologies in two technological fields: energy production and transportation. We introduce a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126025
Cover Image
Economic geography and international inequality
Redding, Stephen; Venables, Anthony J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
This paper estimates a structural model of economic geography using cross-country data on per capita income, bilateral trade, and the relative price of manufacturing goods. More than 70% of the variation in per capita income can be explained by the geography of access to markets and to sources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884566
Cover Image
Explaining cross-country export performance: international linkages and internal geography
Redding, Stephen; Venables, Tony - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper investigates the determinants of countries’ export performance looking in particular at the role of international product market linkages. We begin with a novel decomposition of the growth in countries’ exports into the contribution from increases in external demand and from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745712
Cover Image
External integration, structural transformation and economic development: evidence from Argentina
Fajgelbaum, Pablo; Redding, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This paper uses the natural experiment of Argentina’s integration into world markets in the late-nineteenth century to provide evidence on the role of internal geography in shaping the effects of external integration. We develop a quantitative model of the distribution of economic activity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126394
Cover Image
The auto-component supply chain in China and India: a benchmark study
Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
manufacturers in China and six in India; a range of general component suppliers in both countries, and on a detailed benchmarking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745200
Cover Image
Trade as an engine of creative destruction: Mexican experience with Chinese competition
Iacovone, Leonardo; Winters, L.A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
This paper exploits the surge in Chinese exports from 1994 to 2004 as a natural experiment toevaluate the effects of a unilateral low wage trade and competition shock to producers in Mexico. Wefind that this shock causes selection at both firm and product levels as its impact is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746675
Cover Image
Winners and losers from a commodities-for-manufactures trade boom
Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, João Paulo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126579
Cover Image
Can labour regulation hinder economic performance? Evidence from India
Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper investigates whether the industrial relations climate in Indian States has affected the pattern of manufacturing growth in the period 1958-92. We show that pro-worker amendments to the Industrial Disputes Act are associated with lowered investment, employment, productivity and output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928668
Cover Image
Globalisation, ICT and the nitty gritty of plant level datasets
Martin, Ralf - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
The net entry contribution to aggregate productivity growth has increased dramatically in the UK over 1990s according to calculations based on data from the Annual Respondents Database (ARD). Some recent studies have tried to link this to other structural changes over the same period such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746177
Cover Image
Strategies and counter-strategies: China in the Andean region of South America
Chimienti, Ádam; Creutzfeldt, Benjamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
By employing a comparative method that analyzes China’s increasing presence in different Latin America countries, this … as case studies to evaluate China’s diplomatic rhetoric and the degree to which trade and investment realities live up to … recognizes China’s increased presence in the domestic political economy. Beijing seeks to distinguish itself as a soft power and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186584