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Encouraging inventors to disclose new inventions is an important economic justification for the patent system, yet the technical information contained in patent applications is often inadequate and unclear. This paper proposes a novel approach to measure disclosure in patent applications using...
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economic growth. The model is estimated using quarterly data for Germany, the UK and the US from 1960 to 1999. Our econometric …
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This chapter looks at the UK s privatisation experiment, which began from the late 1970s. It considers the background … to the UK s privatisations, which industries were privatised and how, and summarises the results of studies of … performance changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks at the relative roles of competition, regulation and ownership …
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On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. We analyze vote and turnout shares across 380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum...
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The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms...
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Using detailed firm-level transactions data for UK imports, we find that invoicing in a vehicle currency is pervasive …
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-level data on thousands of respondents in Understanding Society, the UK's largest household survey, which includes the EU … fallacy. In addition, we show that prediction accuracy is geographically heterogeneous across UK regions, with strongly pro …
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According to conventional wisdom, multinational firms undertake vertical FDI in order to take advantage of cross-border factor cost differences and source the inputs from abroad at better terms. Recent empirical findings though document that this is not always the case. We provide theoretical...
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