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Productivity and the Sourcing Modes of Multinational Firms: Evidence from French Firm-Level Data

Defever, Fabrice; Toubal, Farid - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

We investigate the role of a firm's total factor productivity in its decision to import from their affiliates rather … strong empirical support for the theoretical predictions of the model. In particular, high-productivity firms that have a …

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Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry

Bloom, Nicholas; Schankerman, Mark; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers": a positive effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and...

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From Selling Goods to Selling Services: Firm Responses to Trade Liberalization

Breinlich, Holger; Soderbery, Anson; Wright, Greg C. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

In the face of trade liberalization domestic firms are often forced out of the market, whereas others adapt and survive. In this paper we focus on a new channel of adaptation, namely the shift toward increased provision of services in lieu of goods production. We exploit variation in EU trade...

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Selection Effects with Heterogeneous Firms

Mrázová, Monika; Neary, J. Peter - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

We provide a general characterization of which firms will select alternative ways of serving a market. If and only if firms' maximum profits are supermodular in production and marketaccess costs, more efficient firms will select into the activity with lower market-access costs. Our result...

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Peer Effects in Science - Evidence from the Dismissal of Scientists in Nazi Germany

Waldinger, Fabian - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

and their average quality affects the productivity of researchers in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The usual … affect a researcher's productivity. Among co-authors, however, there is strong and significant evidence that peer quality … affects a researcher's productivity. Loosing a co-author of average quality reduces the productivity of an average scientist …

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Span of Control and Span of Activity

Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella; Wulf, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

For both practitioners and researchers, span of control plays an important role in defining and understanding the role of the CEO. In this paper, we combine organizational chart information for a sample of 65 companies with detailed data on how their CEOs allocate their work time, which we...

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The Value of Bosses

Lazear, Edward P.; Shaw, Kathryn L.; Stanton, Christopher T. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

How and by how much do supervisors enhance worker productivity? Using a company-based data set on the productivity of …

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Information Technology, Organization, and Productivity in the Public Sector: Evidence from Police Departments

Garicano, Luis; Heaton, Paul - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

productivity in the public sector using a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. While IT adoption is …-level characteristics and the endogeneity of IT use. IT investments do, however, appear to improve police productivity when complemented …

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Long Term Implications of the ICT Revolution: Applying the Lessons of Growth Theory and Growth Accounting

Oulton, Nicholas - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

United States or Sweden. Nevertheless the contribution to the long run growth of labour productivity stemming from even the …

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Relaxing Credit Constraints in Emerging Economies: The Impact of Public Loans on the Performance of Brazilian Manufacturers

Sousa, Filipe Lage de; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Especially in developing countries credit constraints are often perceived as one of the most important market frictions constraining firm innovation and growth. Huge amounts of public money are being devoted to the removal of such constraints but their effectiveness is still subject to an...

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