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Case studies that give a flavour of the areas where IFS research has an impact on society.
Reforming the tax system for the 21st century.
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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
In a speech made yesterday, the leader of the Labour party, Ed Miliband, accused the coalition's corporate tax policies of "rigging" the tax system against manufacturing and long term investment. This observation discusses how the package of measures will alter the tax burden and affect the UK's competitiveness.
China has experienced unprecedented investment in skills and science, which has resulted in rapid growth in innovative outputs. New evidence suggests that Chinese inventors have the capacity to engage in research at the technology frontier. Such trends have fuelled widespread concerns over Western economies' ability to maintain their dominance in knowledge creation and high skill employment. However, innovation is not a zero-sum game; the success of China need not be at the expense of the West.
In this paper we provide evidence that the growth in Chinese patenting activity has been accompanied by a growth in Chinese inventors creating technologies that are near to the science base.
This report is evidence submitted to the Institute for Public Policy Research in response to a call for evidence on the 'future of globalisation'.
Rachel Griffith, Sokbae 'Simon' Lee and John Van Reenen
We examine the
Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay and Imran Rasul
We discuss how the use of field experiments sheds light on long-standing research questions relating to firm behavior.
These slides were delivered at the IFS Green Budget 2011
Laura Abramovsky and Helen Simpson
We investigate evidence for spatially mediated knowledge transfer from university research. We examine whether firms locate R&D near universities, and whether those that do are more likely to co-operate with, or source knowledge from them.
The tax treatment of intellectual property is currently in the spotlight and there is considerable interest in understanding how taxes affect firms' choices over where to hold patents for tax purposes.
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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.
IFS researchers responded to a consultation on the design of a new policy to reduce corporation tax on some forms of income.
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