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Do oil windfalls improve living standards?: evidence from Brazil

Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls on government behavior. Oil-rich municipalities experience increases in revenues and report corresponding increases in spending on public goods and services. However, survey data and...

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You better play 7: mutual versus common knowledge of advice in a weak-link experiment

Devetag, Giovanna; Hosni, Hykel; Sillari, Giacomo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper presents the results of an experiment on mutual versus common knowledge of advice in a two-player weak … to all treatments, we vary the knowledge levels associated with external advice given in the form of a suggestion to pick … play are higher with respect to the control treatment, revealing that even a condition as weak as mutual knowledge of level …

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Here be startups: exploring a young digital cluster in inner East London

Nathan, Max; Vandore, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

The digital industries cluster known as 'Silicon Roundabout' has been quietly growing in East London since the 1990s. Now rebranded 'Tech City', it is now the focus of huge public and government attention. National and local policymakers wish to accelerate the local area's development: such...

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The costs of remoteness: evidence from German division and reunification

Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper exploits the division of Germany after the Second World War and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990 as a natural experiment to provide evidence of the importance of market access for economic development. In line with a standard new economic geography model, we find...

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Internet cluster emergence

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

. The paper develops conditions under which clusters of activity emerge. …

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Does the underground economy hold back financial deepening? Evidence from the Italian credit market

Gobbi, Giorgio; Zizza, Roberta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

The paper investigates the relationship between underground activities and financial deepening. The access to external finance requires entrepreneurs to disclose credible information through formal documentation. This requirement may be impossible to oblige to for many informal producers who...

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Repression or civil war?

Besley, Timothy; Persson, Torsten - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

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Membership has its priveleges : the effect of social capital and neighbourhood characteristics on the earnings of microfinance borrowers

Gomez, Rafael; Santor, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

This paper examines the determinants of self-employment success for microcredit borrowers. Theories of social capital and neighbourhood effects are integrated in an attempt to account for earnings differentials amongst a unique sample of microfinance borrowers. The paper posits that social...

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The economics of non-governmental organisations

Scott, Colin; Hopkins, R. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to identify the organisational comparative advantage of NGOs, and to develop a model which explains the set of circumstances uder which they emerge and dominate other types of firms. It is argued that the potential superiority of NGOs derives from two features: (1)...

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Property rights and economic development

Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This chapter develops a unified analytical framework, drawing on and extending the existing literature on the subject, for studying the role of property rights in economic development. It addresses two fundamental and related questions concerning the relationship between property rights and...

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