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The causal effects of an industrial policy
Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry G.; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126451
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Productivity growth, knowledge flows and spillovers
Crespi, Gustavo; Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan E.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
three questions (a) What is the source of knowledge flows? (b) To what extent do such flows contribute to productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071306
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Growing Together? – Prospects for Economic Convergence and Reunification in Cyprus.
Watson, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Policy-makers have increasingly come to focus on the role of economic factors in fuelling or dampening regional and border conflicts. This issue can be highly relevant in the case of nonrecognized entities where some economic interests may benefit from the resulting distortions while others...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005453823
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Barriers and the transition to modern growth
Ngai, L. Rachel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper studies how differences in the size of barriers to capital accumulation can account for differences in long run economic development paths. In this model barriers affect both the beginning date and the pace of the modern economic growth. A fundamental property of the model is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928738
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Schooling, nation building and industrialization: a Gellnerian approach
Hauk, Esther; Ortega, Javier - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and the masses to attend them. Schooling raises … productivity, particularly for matches between masses and bourgeois. At the same time, only country-wide education ("unified … dominant elite at the regional and country level is the same and/or the industrialization shock is sufficiently high. If …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183324
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Internationalization and innovation of firms: evidence and policy
Altomonte, Carlo; Aquilante, Tommaso; Békés, Gábor; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France … survives after controlling for productivity, with some evidence of causality running from the latter to the former. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125974
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Mapping information economy businesses with big data: findings from the UK
Nathan, Max; Rosso, Anna - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Governments around the world want to develop their ICT and digital industries. Policymakers thus need a clear sense of the size and characteristics of digital businesses, but this is hard to do with conventional datasets and industry codes. This paper uses innovative ‘big data’ resources to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126265
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Balanced growth with structural change
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
We study a multi-sector model of growth with differences in TFP growth rates across sectors and derive sufficient conditions for the coexistence of structural change, characterized by sectoral labor reallocation, and constant aggregate growth path. The conditions are weak restrictions on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928655
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Do rural banks matter? evidence from the Indian social banking experiment
Burgess, Robin; Pande, Rohini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Lack of access to finance is often cited as a key reason why poor people remain poor. This paper uses data on the Indian rural branch expansion program to provide empirial evidence on this issue. Between 1977 and 1990, the Indian Central Bank mandated that a commercial bank can open a branch in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745415
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Unemployment and hours of work: the North Atlantic divide revisited
Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was due to the high productivity growth associated with technological … catch-up. Productivity also played a role in the dynamics of hours but a full explanation for the fast rise of service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746048