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Development Discussion Paper

Policy decisions and evidence use among civil servants: A group decision experiment in Pakistan

Laura Metzger, Adnan Qadir Khan and Teddy Svoronos

In a lab-in-field experiment with elite civil servants in Pakistan, we investigate whether groups outperform individuals in a two-staged task which requires effective use of data and evidence. We also study how efficient...Read more...

24 April 2020

CASEpaper

Using play to help families learn: Evaluation of Trafford Hall’s Playing 2 Learn Programme 2008-11

Laura Lane and Liz Richardson

The report describes the results of a three-year evaluation by LSE Housing and Communities of a family learning programme called Playing 2 Learn. The Playing 2 Learn programme was open to vulnerable families from low inc...Read more...

1 August 2012

Development Discussion Paper

LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT: INCOME DYNAMICS AND THE EVOLVING POLITICAL PREFERENCES OF FORWARD-LOOKING BAYESIAN VOTERS

John Morrow and Michael Carter

The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. While the implications of upwar...Read more...

1 January 2012

Theoretical Economics Paper

Self-Confidence and Survival

Heski Bar-Isaac

We consider the impact of history on the survival of a monopolist selling single units in discrete time periods, whose quality is learned slowly. If the seller learns her own quality at the same rate as customers, a suff...Read more...

October 2001

Theoretical Economics Paper

Market Experimentation in a Dynamic Differentiated-Goods Duopoly

Godfrey Keller and Sven Rady

We study the evolution of prices in a symmetric duopoly where firms are uncertain about the degree of product differentiation. Customers sometimes perceive the products as close substitutes, sometimes as highly different...Read more...

July 1999

Japanese Studies Programme Paper

The Learning Process and the Market: The Japanese Capital Goods Sector in the Early Twentieth Century

Tetsuro Nakaoka

Professor Tetsuro Nakaoka, formerly of Osaka University, and now of the Faculty of Management, Osaka University of Economics, gave a seminar on Japanese industrial development at the Suntory-Toyota Centre during 1992. Al...Read more...

January 1994

Economics of Industry Paper

Product Innovation and Persistence of Leadership: Theory with Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry

Harald Gruber

This paper sets out to model the evolution of market shares in the semiconductor industry. The time profile of market shares for different firms in this industry has shown a striking regularity over successive generation...Read more...

June 1990