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The impact of the diffusion of a financial innovation on company performance: an analysis of SWIFT adoption

Scott, Susan V.; Zachariadis, Markos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

How does a major financial network innovation influence firm performance? Despite muchspeculation we have little hard quantitative evidence about the impact of technology diffusionin financial services. In this paper we use the entire adoption history for SWIFT (the Societyfor Worldwide...

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Entry, standards and competition : firm strategies and the diffusion of mobile telephony

Koski, Heli; Kretschmer, Tobias - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

prices and diffusion. We address the question of non-random selection arising from cross-country differences in the timing of … be a substantial problem in cross-country studies on technology diffusion and yield biased estimates of the policy … variables of interest. Our estimation results suggest that standardization accelerates 2G entry and diffusion, although within …

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Patents and the global diffusion of new drugs

Cockburn, Iain; Lanjouw, Jean O.; Schankerman, Mark - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

more profitable, also speed up diffusion. The effects are robust to using instruments to control for endogeneity of policy … regimes. The results point to an important role for patents and other policy choices in driving the diffusion of new …

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Conditional spatial policy dependence: theory and model specification

Neumayer, Eric; Plümper, Thomas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

The authors discuss how scholars can bring theories of spatial policy dependence and empirical model specifications closer in line so that the empirical analysis actually tests the theoretical predictions. Comprehensive theories of spatial policy dependence typically suggest that the...

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Globalization and the empowerment of women: an analysis of spatial dependence via trade and foreign direct investment

Neumayer, Eric; De Soysa, Indra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Previous studies of globalization’s effects on women’s rights have mostly focused on employment and wage ratios, but even if women’s earnings improve, they might suffer greater exploitation at work and at home. Further, these studies use general measures of a country’s openness to trade...

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Sustainability and well-being indicators

Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper provides a review and critical discussion of indicators, which attempt to combine the measurement of sustainability with that of well-being. It starts with some commonly agreed definitions of sustainability, showing how most well-being indicators tell us little if anything at all...

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Integrated EUA and CER price modeling and application for spread option pricing

Barrieu, Pauline; Fehr, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

In this paper we propose a market consistent futures price dynamics model for cap-andtrade schemes, designed in the spirit of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). Historical price dynamics for the EU ETS suggest that, both, European emission Allowances (EUAs) and Certified...

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Environmental services and poverty alleviation: either, or, or both?

Groom, Ben; Palmer, Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Payments for environmental services (PES) schemes in developing countries face trade-offs between environmental and development objectives. This tension is inherent in cost effective direct PES since, by their very nature, they limit transfers to recipients. However, where recipients of PES are...

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Raising finance to support developing country action: some economic considerations

Bowen, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This article explores the principles that should guide efforts to raise finance for climate action in developing countries. The main conclusions are that, first, there is an important role for private finance, which would be facilitated by having pervasive and broadly uniform emissions pricing...

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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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