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Understanding the origins and pace of Africa’s urban transition

Fox, Sean - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

In this paper the author argues that urbanisation should be understood as a global historical process driven primarily by population dynamics stimulated by technological and institutional change. In particular, disease control and expanded access to surplus energy supplies are necessary and...

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Where is the economics in spatial econometrics?

Corrado, Luisa; Fingleton, Bernard - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Spatial econometrics has been criticized by some economists because some model specifications have been driven by data-analytic considerations rather than having a firm foundation in economic theory. In particular this applies to the so-called W matrix, which is integral to the structure of...

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Social funds and decentralisation: optimal institutional design

Faguet, Jean-Paul; Wietzke, Frank-Borge - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

Most of the 60+ developing countries that have established social funds (SFs) are decentralising their governments as well. But the question of how to tailor SFs - originally a highly centralised model - for a decentralising context has received relatively little attention in the literature. We...

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Plant-level determinants of total factor productivity in Great Britain, 1997-2006

Harris, Richard; Moffat, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper examines the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) using a GB plant-level dataset. Using a systems-GMM approach, it considers the role of the following four plant characteristics: internal and external knowledge; foreign ownership, multi-plant economies of scale and...

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The long term impacts of migration in British cities: diversity, wages, employment and prices

Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

British cities are becoming more culturally diverse, with migration a main driver. Is this growing diversity good for urban economies? This paper explores, using a new 16-year panel of UK cities. Over time, net migration affects both local labour markets and the wider economy. Average labour...

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Do workers' remittances reduce the probability of current account reversals?

Bugamelli, Matteo; Paterno, Francesco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The paper combines the literature on financial crises in emerging markets and developing economies with that on international migrations by investigating whether the increasingly large flows of workers’ remittances can help reduce the probability of current account reversals. The rationale for...

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Re-investment and the survival of foreign-owned plants

Jones, Jonathan; Wren, Colin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Foreign-owned plants have higher conditional exit rates, but this paper tests the hypothesis that re-investment "embeds" these plants, leading to significantly longer survival time durations. A unique dataset is used for 265 plants that commenced in foreign ownership after 1985 in North East...

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R&D, innovation and exporting

Harris, Richard; Moffat, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

, the contemporaneous links between these variables using three waves of the UK Community Innovation Survey (CIS). Where … increased the probability of exporting. Exporting had no direct impact on whether innovation occurred in either sector. Given … the key role of R&D, innovation and exporting in determining productivity, it is important that government understands …

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Geography or economics? A micro-level analysis of the determinants of degree choice in the context of regional economic disparities in the UK

Wales, Philip - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

The importance of human capital to the economic performance of a national, regional or local economy is now well established. Labour markets are thought to reward individuals in proportion to their marginal productivity and to encourage an efficient allocation of skilled workers. However, labour...

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Housing markets and the financial crisis of 2007-2009: lessons for the future

Duca, John V.; Muellbauer, John; Murphy, Anthony - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

financial innovation, regulation, housing policies, and global financial imbalances for fueling credit, construction, house …

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