Professor Dame Rachel Griffith

We examine the "home bias" of knowledge spillovers (the idea that knowledge spreads more slowly over international boundaries than within them) as measured by the speed of patent citations.

In this paper, we discuss the ways in which food markets might fail to deliver the optimal outcome and how this may justify government intervention.

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.

We calculate the impact of a 45p per unit minimum price and describe how different households and retailers would be affected.

We provide empirical evidence that the reforms carried out under the EU Single Market Programme were associated with increased product market competition.

In this Briefing Note we focus on changes to the corporate tax environment alongside direct policies that aim to correct market failures.

In this Briefing Note, we briefly describe trends in UK productivity over the recent recession and how they compare with those in the US.

The theoretical effects of labour regulations such as employment protection legislation on innovation is ambiguous, and empirical evidence has thus far been inconclusive.

Data from market research firms are increasingly being used by social science researchers. These data provide potentially useful information, including detailed nutritional information and well-measured prices, and their panel structure is appealing as it permits researchers to control for unobservable time-invariant household characteristics and to model dynamic aspects of household behaviour.