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London School of Economics and Political Science
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About: London School of Economics and Political Science is a education organization based out in London, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Politics. The organization has 8759 authors who have published 35017 publications receiving 1436302 citations.
Topics: Population, Politics, European union, Health care, Government
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared this method of predicting outcomes with that obtained from an analysis of optimal strategic behavior in a natural game theoretic model of the bargaining process, and reported that this prediction performs well in comparison with the conventional predictor.
Abstract: In the economic modeling of bargaining, outside options have often been naively treated by taking them as the disagreement payoffs in an application of the Nash bargaining solution. The paper contrasts this method of predicting outcomes with that obtained from an analysis of optimal strategic behavior in a natural game theoretic model of the bargaining process. The strategic analysis predicts that the outside options will be irrelevant to the final deal unless a bargainer would then go elsewhere. An experiment is reported which indicates that this prediction performs well in comparison with the conventional predictor.
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Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden1, Columbia University2, National Institute of Amazonian Research3, Universidade Federal do Acre4, Philadelphia Zoo5, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária6, Wageningen University and Research Centre7, Duke University8, London School of Economics and Political Science9, Zoological Society of London10, Université libre de Bruxelles11, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech12, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi13, World Wide Fund for Nature14, University of Amsterdam15, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh16, Wildlife Conservation Society17, Center for International Forestry Research18, University of Oxford19, Universiti Sains Malaysia20, Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno21, Kyoto University22, University of Bangka Belitung23, University of North Sumatra24, University of Zurich25, University of Los Andes26, Indonesian Institute of Sciences27, Southern Cross University28, Naturalis29, Missouri Botanical Garden30, Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana31, Kagoshima University32, University of Copenhagen33, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute34, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee35, Liverpool John Moores University36, Chinese Academy of Sciences37
TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of large trees for tropical forest biomass storage and explore which intrinsic (species trait) and extrinsic (environment) variables are associated with the density of trees and forest biomass at continental and pan-tropical scales.
Abstract: Aim Large trees (d.b.h. 70 cm) store large amounts of biomass. Several studies suggest that large trees may be vulnerable to changing climate, poten- tially leading to declining forest biomass storage. Here we determine the importance of large trees for tropical forest biomass storage and explore which intrinsic (species trait) and extrinsic (environment) variables are associated with the density of large trees and forest biomass at continental and pan-tropical scales. Location Pan-tropical.
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TL;DR: In this article, a simple model was developed to analyse how a lack of political competition may lead to policies that hinder economic growth, such as higher taxes, lower capital spending and a reduced likelihood of using right-to-work laws.
Abstract: This paper develops a simple model to analyse how a lack of political competition may lead to policies that hinder economic growth. We test the predictions of the model on panel data for the US states. In these data, we find robust evidence that lack of political competition in a state is associated with anti-growth policies: higher taxes, lower capital spending, and a reduced likelihood of using right-to-work laws. We also document a strong link between low political competition and low income growth.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a two-step analysis is used in order to first identify the impact of R&D investment of the private, public, and higher education sectors on innovation (measured as the number of patent applications per million population).
Abstract: Over the last two decades many European governments have pursued ambitious research and development (R&D) policies with the aim of fostering innovation and economic growth in peripheral regions of Europe. The question is whether these policies are paying off. Arguments such as the need to reach a minimum threshold of research, the existence of important distance decay effects in the diffusion of technological spillovers, the presence of increasing returns to scale in R&D investments, or the unavailability of the necessary socio-economic conditions in these regions to generate innovation seem to cast doubts about the possible returns of these sort of policies. This paper addresses this question. A two-step analysis is used in order to first identify the impact of R&D investment of the private, public, and higher education sectors on innovation (measured as the number of patent applications per million population). The influence of innovation and innovation growth on economic growth is then addressed. The results indicate that R&D investment, as a whole, and higher education R&D investment in peripheral regions of the EU, in particular, are positively associated with innovation. The existence and strength of this association are, however, contingent upon region-specific socio-economic characteristics, which affect the capacity of each region to transform R&D investment into innovation and, eventually, innovation into economic growth.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Ichiro Kawachi | 149 | 1216 | 90282 |
Amartya Sen | 149 | 689 | 141907 |
Peter Hall | 132 | 1640 | 85019 |
Philippe Aghion | 122 | 507 | 73438 |
Robert West | 112 | 1061 | 53904 |
Keith Beven | 110 | 514 | 61705 |
Andrew Pickles | 109 | 436 | 55981 |
Zvi Griliches | 109 | 260 | 71954 |
Martin Knapp | 106 | 1067 | 48518 |
Stephen J. Wood | 105 | 700 | 39797 |
Jianqing Fan | 104 | 488 | 58039 |
Timothy Besley | 103 | 368 | 45988 |
Richard B. Freeman | 100 | 860 | 46932 |
Sonia Livingstone | 99 | 510 | 32667 |
John Van Reenen | 98 | 440 | 40128 |