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The weightless economy in economic development
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
development. Evidence from the failed Industrial Revolution in 14th-century China illustrates the empirical relevance of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884693
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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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Is Poland the next Spain?
Caselli, Francesco; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
We revisit Western Europe’s record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both higher rates of physical capital accumulation and...
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Information technology, organization, and productivity in the public sector: evidence from police departments
Garicano, Luis; Heaton, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
We examine how information technology (IT) contributes to organizational change, labor demand, and improved productivity in the public sector using a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. While IT adoption is associated with increased administrative and organizational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745994
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Heterogeneous mark-ups, growth and endogenous misallocation
Peters, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
The recent work on misallocation argues that aggregate productivity in poor countries is low because various market frictions prevent marginal products from being equalized. By focusing on such allocative inefficiencies, misallocation is construed as a purely static phenomenon. This paper argues...
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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 …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by …
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Green chemistry and green engineering in China: drivers, policies and barriers to innovation
Matus, Kira J. M.; Xiao, Xin; Zimmerman, Julie B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
With the world’s largest population and consistently rapid rates of economic growth, China faces a choice of whether it … in the fields of green chemistry and green engineering in China, which we find to be largely driven by energy efficiency … engineering in China. They are (1) competition between economic growth and environmental agendas, (2) regulatory and bureaucratic …
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Combining multiple climate policy instruments: how not to do it
Fankhauser, Samuel; Hepburn, Cameron; Park, Jisung - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Putting a price on carbon is critical for climate change policy. Increasingly, policymakers combine multiple policy tools to achieve this, for example by complementing cap-and-trade schemes with a carbon tax, or with a feed-in tariff. Often, the motivation for doing so is to limit undesirable...
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Co-impacts of energy-related climate change mitigation in Africa’s least developed countries: the evidence base and research needs
Rowlands, Ian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
This article analyses the debate associated with the co-impacts of climate change mitigation in developing countries, with a particular focus upon Africa’s least developed countries. While these countries’ emissions of greenhouse gases are relatively small (and they do not have emission...
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Collective agreements, wages and restructuring in transition
Magda, Iga; Marsden, David; Moriconi, Simone - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Using a large matched employer-employee dataset, the authors investigate the relationship between collective agreements, wages and restructuring in transition in three former centrally planned economies (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland). They adopt a natural experiment approach and capture...
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