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Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry

Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hemous, David; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 … tax-inclusive fuel prices. Furthermore, there is path dependence in the type of innovation both from aggregate spillovers … and from the firm's own innovation history. Using our model we simulate the increases in carbon taxes needed to allow …

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Optimal Capital Versus Labor Taxation with Innovation-Led Growth

Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Fernandez-Villaverde, Jesus - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2013

innovation-led growth into the Chamley-Judd framework, using a Schumpeterian growth model where productivity … on the market size for innovation. At the same time, for a given labor supply, taxing capital also reduces innovation …

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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …

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Innovation and Institutional Ownership

Aghion, Philippe; Reenen, John Van; Zingales, Luigi - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …

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The Impact of an Innovative Human Resource Function on Firm Performance: the Moderating Role of Financing Strategy

Dawson, J; Knight-Turvey, Neal; Neal, Andrew; West, M - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

The current study examined the impact of the human resource function and financing strategyon the financial performance of 104 UK manufacturing firms. Hypotheses are drawn from aresource-based perspective on human resource management and a financial theoryperspective on capital structure....

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Do Organisational Climate and Strategic Orientation Moderate the Relationship Between Human Resource Management Practices and Productivity?

Neal, Andrew; Patterson, M; West, M - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

Contingency formulations of Human Resource Management (HRM) theory suggest thatthe effectiveness of HRM practices should vary across firms. This study examinedwhether the relationship between HRM practices and productivity in manufacturingcompanies is contingent upon organizational climate and...

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Organizational Climate and Company Productivity: the Role of Employee Affect and Employee Level

Patterson, M; Warr, P; West, M - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

Consistent with a growing number of models about affect and behaviour and with arecognition that perception alone provides no impetus for action, it was predicted thatassociations between company climate and productivity would be mediated by average levelof job satisfaction. In a study of 42...

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Globalisation, ICT and the Nitty Gritty of Plant Level Datasets

Martin, Ralf - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

The net entry contribution to aggregate productivity growth has increased dramatically in the UK over 1990saccording to calculations based on data from the Annual Respondents Database (ARD). Some recent studieshave tried to link this to other structural changes over the same period such as...

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Young, Restless and Creative: Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Celik, Murat Alp - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2014

the choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted …. Our measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per patent) and creativity …

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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822929