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Access to finance: a functional approach to supply and demand
Fischer, Gregory - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
This paper provides a comprehensive description of the financial environment for households and small businesses in a defined geographical region. It develops a new, functional approach to financial access surveys, which involves asking detailed questions about how respondents meet their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071530
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Endogenous coordination: multinational companies and the production of collective goods in Central and Eastern Europe
Hancké, Bob - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Most accounts of business coordination assume historically given conditions for this to emerge. Business coordination is therefore difficult, perhaps impossible, to construct endogenously. This paper examines a process of ‘endogenous coordination’ through an analysis of reindustrialization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745278
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Connecting worlds: the translation of international auditing standards into post-Soviet audit practice
Mennicken, Andrea - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
This paper analyses the use and circulation of nternational auditing standards within a large post-Soviet Russian audit firm, as it faces up to the challenges of international harmonisation. It describes this process as one of ‘connecting worlds’ and translation. In a detailed field study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745326
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Accounting for cross-country income differences
Caselli, Francesco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
Why are some countries so much richer than others? Development Accounting is a first-pass attempt at organizing the answer around two proximate determinants: factors of production and efficiency. It answers the question “how much of the cross-country income variance can be attributed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071091
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Why do management practices differ across firms and countries?
Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
Economists have long puzzled over the astounding differences in productivity between firms and countries. For example, looking at disaggregated data on U.S. manufacturing industries, Syverson (2004a) found that plants at the 90th percentile produced four times as much as the plant in the 10th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745216
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Relational knowledge transfers
Garicano, Luis; Rayo, Luis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
An expert must train a novice. The novice initially has no cash, so he can only pay the expert with the accumulated surplus from his production. At any time, the novice can leave the relationship with his acquired knowledge and produce on his own. The sole reason he does not is the prospect of...
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Unemployment clusters across European regions and countries
Overman, Henry G.; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
European regions have experienced a polarisation of their unemployment rates between 1986 and 1996, as regions with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884644
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Fixed-term contracts and unemployment: an efficiency wage analysis
Guell, Maia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
unemployment. Although these contracts have been widely used, unemployment has remained about the same after fifteen years. This …
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A picture of European unemployment: success and failure
Nickell, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Average unemployment in Europe today is relatively high compared with OECD countries outside Europe. The majority of … countries in Europe today have lower unemployment than any OECD country outside Europe, including the US. These two fa cts are …), have very high unemployment and most of the rest have comparatively low unemployment. This variability is highly …
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A test between unemployment theories using matching data
Coles, Melvyn; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …
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