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 At the heart of research in this area is the study of firm’s behaviour and the role of institutions and public policy. Research to date has covered several topics, including: the determinants of R&D, innovation and technology transfer; how firms are structured and why firms outsource or offshore activities; and what are the determinants and consequences of firms' location decisions. Work has included consideration of the role of the following on firms’ decisions and outcomes: corporate taxes; product and labour market regulation; planning regulations; the role of universities; agglomeration of activities; skills and wages. Our work is mostly empirical, with a strong ground in economic theory and a focus on linking our empirical findings to practical policy issues. Our research is often used to help to better understand factors that underlie the UK's productivity performance and what determines differences in aggregate trends in productivity and innovation across industries and countries. Search
Massimo Florio
In this paper, we offer and discuss new evidence on the performance of British Telecom (BT) before and after privatisation.
Rachel Griffith and Rupert Harrison
Understanding why the UK has performed relatively poorly in terms of R&D is important for predicting whether current policies can halt this decline and ultimately narrow the productivity gap. This Briefing Note documents and disentangles trends in UK R&D over the period 1981-2000.
Rachel Griffith, Stephen Redding and John Van Reenen
This paper presents a single unified framework that integrates the theoretical literature on Schumpeterian endogenous growth and major strands of the empirical literature on R&D, productivity growth and productivity convergence.
Michael P Devereux and Rachel Griffith
We consider the impact of taxation when investors face a discrete choice between two or more mutually exclusive projects.
Paul Geroski and Rachel Griffith
Andrew Bernard, Helen Simpson, Stephen Redding and Peter Schott
Helen Simpson
Bernard, Andrew B, Stephen Redding, Schott, Peter K and Helen Simpson
Bernard, Andrew B, Stephen Redding, Schott, Peter K and Helen Simpson
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 IFS researchers helped make a case against proposed cuts to public spending on science.
IFS researchers used knowledge from past findings to analyse the potential impact of a proposed reduction in corporation tax to encourage innovation.
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