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Business and investment

Our research covers a wide range of topics related to businesses and their investments, including firm productivity, innovation and research and development, the location of firms’ activities and the effects of tax, competition and other policies.

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Technology and changes in skill structure: Evidence from an international panel of industries

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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.

6 September 1996

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Taxes and the location of production: evidence from a panel of US multinationals

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This paper investigates a set of strategic decisions facing US firms.

16 August 1996

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Job creation, technological innovation and adjustment costs

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1 January 1996

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Tax incentives for R&D

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A long-standing concern surrounding the performance of the UK economy is its perceived failure to maintain the same technological pace as its competitors.

1 May 1995

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Job creation, technological innovation and adjustment costs

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This paper compares the employment behaviour of innovative firms with those that are less technologically advanced.

1 January 1995

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Promoting R & D through tax incentives: an assessment of the arguments

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1 January 1995

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Dynamic count data models of technological innovation

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26 October 1994

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Innovations and market structure

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1 November 1993

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Knowledge stocks, persistent innovation and market dominance: evidence from a panel of British manufacturing firms

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26 October 1993

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Investment and Tobin's Q: evidence from company panel data

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1 January 1992

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Imperfect competition, work practices and productivity growth

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1 January 1991

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Privatising London's airports

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This report analyses the options for the privatisation of BAA in terms of economic efficiency.

1 January 1985

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Civil aviation policy and the privatisation of British Airways

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This report presents the results of the IFS project on the Regulation and Privatisation of British Airways.

1 January 1984

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The economic behaviour of local authorities

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The increasing relative size of the local government sector over the last thirty five years is reasonably well known.

26 July 1982