Jonathan Haskel's Blog

Tim Taylor has another terrific post , today on a Stein paper on interest on reserves.  here's the point. 1. banks have to sell equity...

Diane Coyle makes a point that David Edgerton has also made to me in Diane's review of Chandler, Shaping the Industrial Century.  David ...

1.  A very good survey of IPRs in Europe covering patents, copyrights and other IPRs, by Dietmar Harhoff. 2. Financial crisis.  Why can Sp...

How regulation affects productivity is surprisingly hard to pin down: indices of regulation are hard to come by, other things are going on ...

It's been an ultra-busy last few months with teaching and moving to the US, where now I am visiting the Tuck School of Business, Dartmou...

1. Terrific piece on energy and externalities with quantification of external effects and global warming policy by Bill Nordhaus. 2. Can I...

Wise words on the need for increased captial requirements and whether they will stiffle growth from Howard Davies .  Very nice case study o...

1. The price is wrong.  We looked in class at how markets are unlikely to price energy externalities correctly.  Here's some work by Fro...

Here is OECD data on China's R&D over time, compared with other countries, showing a catch up to European levels (click on this pict...