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IFS research in this area looks at several topics: the factors that underlie the UK's productivity performance; 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. Our work is mostly empirical, with a strong ground in economic theory and a focus on linking our empirical findings to practical policy issues.
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This presentation was given at the launch of the 2010 Green Budget.
The theoretical effects of labour regulations such as employment protection legislation on innovation is ambiguous, and empirical evidence has thus far been inconclusive.
We provide empirical evidence that the reforms carried out under the EU Single Market Programme were associated with increased product market competition.
This paper analyzss the effects of a ban on smoking in public places upon firms and consumers.
We investigate the idea that increased use of ICT has facilitated outsourcing of business services, and that these are complementary activities in production because they allow firms to focus on their core competencies.
Laura Abramovsky, Elisabeth Kremp, Alberto López, Tobias Schmidt and Helen Simpson
This paper investigates co-operative research activity by firms using data from the 3rd Community Innovation Survey for four countries, France, Germany, Spain and the UK.
Rita Almeida and Pedro Carneiro
This paper investigates how enforcement of labour regulation affects the firm's use of informal labour, firm size and firm performance.
In this we provide evidence that correlations between incumbent productivity growth and patenting arise from a causal effect predicted by Schumpeterian growth theory.
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