Professor Dame Rachel Griffith

Policy makers in Europe have been concerned that lack of product market competition have led productivity to lag behind the US.

This paper describes the characteristics of manufacturing establishments in Britain over the period 1980 to 1996. Particular attention is paid to differences between plants of different ownership nationality.

This paper presents a unified model that integrates the theoretical literatue on Schumpeterian endogenous growth, the microeconometric literature on R&D and productivity, and the empirical literature on productivity convergence.

This Briefing Note reviews some of the major issues in the design and implementation of R&D tax credits. R&D tax credits have become a popular policy tool for encouraging R&D spending by business, with many countries offering subsidies of this form. Recent empirical evidence suggests that R&D tax credits are an effective instrument in stimulating additional R&D. However, in order to be desirable, a policy needs to be cost-effective and implementable.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

In this paper we examine the panel data estimation of dynamic models for count data that include correlated fixed effects and predetermined variables.

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

Traditional analysis of the taxation of income from capital has focused on the impact of

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.

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

This report looks at how corporate income taxes have changed over the past two decades, what incentives they provide for domestic and international investment, and whether changes in the international economy have helped shape these reforms.