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The weightless economy in economic development

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

, education, and skills for consumption (rather than production) - can importantly affect patterns of economic growth and …

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Spatial agglomeration dynamics

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless … global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and … converges towards egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it. …

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Growth and inequality: a demographic explanation

Miyazawa, Kazutoshi - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … rate on the equilibrium growth rate as well as on the income distribution. We show that the relationship between growth and …

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The role of freedom, growth and religion in the taste for revolution

MacCulloch, Robert; Pezzini, Silvia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

personal characteristics, country and year fixed effects, more freedom and economic growth both reduce revolutionary support …. To reduce support by the same amount requires adding 14 percentage points on to the GDP growth rate. Being Muslim in a …

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Measuring the cost effectiveness of an R&D tax credit for the UK

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

This paper investigates the economic impact of the government's proposed new UK R&D tax credit. We measure the benefit of the credit by the effect on value added in the short and long_run. This is simulated from existing econometric estimates of the tax_price elasticity of R&D and the effect of...

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The long-term consequences of regional specialization

Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The Long-Term Consequences of Regional Specialization* What are the consequences of resource-based regional specialization, when it persists over a long period of time? While much of the literature argues that specialization is beneficial, recent work suggests it may be costly in the long run,...

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Transcending the great foreign aid debate: managerialism, radicalism and the search for aid effectiveness

Gulrajani, Nilima - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

The Great Aid Debate pits those who are radically opposed to foreign aid against those who champion its reform to achieve greater aid effectiveness. This paper offers an analysis of this debate by introducing a heuristic distinction between aid 'radicals' and aid 'reformers'. The radical...

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Multiple-product firms and product switching

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper examines the frequency, pervasiveness, and determinants of product switching by US manufacturing firms. We find that one-half of firms alter their mix of five-digit SIC products every five years, that product switching is correlated with both firm- and firm-product attributes, and...

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New media, firms, ideas, and growth: European cities after Gutenberg

Dittmar, Jeremiah - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

. Local access to printed merchants' manuals used in business education was particularly associated with growth. New micro … evidence on media markets, knowledge transmission, and city growth across Europe 1450-1600. The paper construct- s …-level supply induced by heterogeneous manager deaths is used to identify the impact of print media on city-level population growth …

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Agency, firm growth, and managerial turnover

Anderson, Ronald W.; Bustamante, Maria Cecilia; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

We study the relation between firm growth and managerial incentive provision under moral hazard when a long-lived firm … provide incentives, but also when outside managers are at a comparative advantage to lead the firm through a new growth phase …-loaded compensation schemes. Growth-induced turnover can result in positive severance if the principal needs to incentivize the manager to …

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