Business and investment

This note looks at how the government might use policy to increase the amount of R&D done in the UK.

Many writers have claimed that R&D has two 'faces'.

There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity.

This paper examines the impact of fiscal incentives on the level of R&D investment.

In this paper we document that there has been convergence of TFP within a panel of industries across thirteen OECD countries since 1970.nonpara-metric statistical tests of stochastic dominance criteria to bivariate distributions.

This paper examines the impact of fiscal incentives on the level of R&D investment.

We present a model of endogenous rm growth with R&D investment and stochastic innovation as the engines of growth.

There has much recent academic and policy interest in the issue of spatial clustering of

This paper examines the empirical relationship between technological innovations, market share and stock market value.

This paper investigates the relationship between export market shares and relative unit labour

Many sectors of the UK economy experienced rapid productivity growth over the 1980's. This coincided with an increase in the flow of inward investment.

This paper tests for the importance of cash flow on investment in fixed capital and R&D using firm-level panel data in two countries between 1985 and 1994.

This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by examining the micro-econometric evidence.

Recently the data underlying the Annual Census of Production has been made available to academic

This commentary asks whether a productivity gap is really the problem facing Britain. Do lower levels of output per worker suggest greater inefficiency or do they reflect differences in levels of inputs? Historically low levels of investment suggest that our stock of R&D, physical and human capital may be lower than it is in the other main industrialised countries.

The role of financial institutions and corporate governance in the conduct and performance of industrial firrm, especially in the area of technological innovation and international competition has been hotly debated in the recent past.

Much of the dramatic change in skill and wage structure observed in recent years in the United States is believed to stem from the impact of new technology.

This paper considers the factors that influence the locational decisions of multinational firms.

This paper concerns the relationship between refuse collection contract costs and the number of bidders for a sample of English local authorities.

This paper describes the evolution of the tax treatment of investment in R&D