Monday, 20 February 2012

More financial crisis readings

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11..       Where Does The Greek Bailout Money Go? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/where-does-greek-bailout-money-go 19% only to Greeks, ...
Thursday, 16 February 2012

Creative industries versus creative activities

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DCMS have a new estimate of the UK"s creative industries , full report here . Their main finding is that  Creative Industries accounted...
Friday, 10 February 2012

Eurocrisis links

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1 . Greek police to arrest German budget hardliners . 2. Escaping from the crisis: a fiscal union of political union .   From the  FT. ...
Thursday, 9 February 2012

How does copyright law affect investment?

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As economies become more knowledge based, the climate of IP legislation matters more and more.  Here's a recent paper by Josh Lerner on...
Thursday, 2 February 2012

Why didn’t Google start in the UK?

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This is the exam question posed by Prime Minister David Cameron to  the Hargreaves review of UK Intellectual Property and it came up again...
Monday, 16 January 2012

Interest on reserves as a policy tool for financial stability

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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...
Tuesday, 10 January 2012

General purpose technologies

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

Various teaching links

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

Teaching note: Why is there no Wal-Mart in the UK?( Or, Regulation and productivity: evidence from retailing )

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

Blogging in the USA

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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...