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Nearly 40% of England's privately built waterworks were municipalised in the late 19th century. We examine how this affected public health by pairing annual mortality data for over 600 registration districts, spanning 1869 to 1910, with detailed waterworks information. Identification is aided by...
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This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … productivity (CDM model). Our econometric results suggest that overall the systems driving innovation and productivity are … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a …
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between appropriability mechanisms, innovation and firm-level productivity. We enrich this model in several ways. First, we … estimate the impact of the innovation output conditional on the choice of appropriability mechanisms on firms' productivity. We … consider different types of innovation spending and study the differences in estimates when innovation spending (rather than R …
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We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the … present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of … productivity, research, and patenting, we simulate the growth of the five countries, given initial productivity levels in 1950 and …
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Firms that export or, even more so, are part of a multinational enterprise tend to exhibit higher productivity than … organization that one of the main drivers of differences in productivity is differences in knowledge. We examine a new data set of … information. We also find that the relative importance of knowledge sources varies systematically with the type of innovation …
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examine the impact of mergers on a large set of outcomes including financial performance, productivity, waiting times and …
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directly to cultivators or non-landlords. Although Banerjee and Iyer (2005) find that agricultural productivity of non …
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In this paper, we estimate the impact of increasing costs on foreign producers following a withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (popularly known as Brexit). Our predictions are based on simulations of a multicountry neoclassical growth model that includes multinational firms...
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mismatches are associated with significant productivity losses …
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, and that a high rate of machinery investment is a necessary prerequisite for rapid long-run productivity growth - a …
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