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SPDO Research Note

The post war welfare state: stages and disputes

Howard Glennerster

It has been suggested that the COVID epidemic, and its profound economic and social consequences, may produce major changes in the dominant ideas that help set the boundaries to social action. This note reflects on sig...Read more...

12 August 2020

Development Discussion Paper

Awards Unbundled: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment

Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and Scott Lee

Organizations often use awards to incentivize performance. We design a field experiment to unbundle the mechanisms through which awards may affect behavior: by facilitating social comparison and by conferring recognition...Read more...

14 August 2013

Development Discussion Paper

No Margin, no Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for public service delivery

Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera and Kelsey Jack

A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a fiel...Read more...

Revised February 2014

Economics of Industry Paper

Second-Hand Markets and Collusion by Manufacturers of Semidurable Goods

Pasquale Schiraldi

The focus of the present work is to study the impact of the second-hand market the collusive behavior. I analyze firms’ preferences for having an active second-hand market and whether policies (i.e. leasing policy, buy-b...Read more...

September 2009

Development Discussion Paper

Soldiers or Bureaucrats? Conflict and the Military’s Role in Policy-Making

Gabriel Leon

One of the most striking institutional features of many less developed countries is that their militaries are closely involved in policy-making, potentially having a large impact on economic outcomes. This paper examines...Read more...

July 2009

Economics of Industry Paper

Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation

Sharon Belenzon and Mark Schankerman

This paper studies the role of intrinsic motivation, reputation and reciprocity in driving open source software innovation. We exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the 'revealed preference' of developers - to ...Read more...

October 2008

International Studies Paper

Bond Markets and Banks in Inter-War Japan

Makoto Kasuya

Issues of bonds increased in inter-war Japan, the main investors in bonds being banks because demand for loans declined in this period. Banks that were more tolerant of risks (that is, whose capital ratio was higher) mad...Read more...

August 2007

CASEpaper

Child Support Awards in Britain: An analysis of data from the Families and Children Study

Stephen Morris

This paper examines the extent to which mothers that care for children where the father is non-resident have an award or agreement for child support in place. Data from the Families and Children Study are used to explore...Read more...

April 2007

International Studies Paper

On the Periphery of the Russo-Japanese War Part II

David Steeds and Ian Nish

Steeds: David Davies, a young member of a prominent Welsh commercial/industrial family, spent the period between October 1904 and January 1905 in Japan, Korea and North China. His diary of the journey presents interestin...Read more...

May 2005

International Studies Paper

The Korean Armistice of 1953 and its Consequences - Part II

Rana Mitter and Koji Nakakita

Mitter: China emerged from the Korean War as a more confident actor in the international order. The paper considers three wider contexts within which China's experience of the Korean War should be considered: as part of ...Read more...

June 2004

International Studies Paper

The Korean Armistice of 1953 and its Consequences - Part I

Gordon Daniels and James Hoare

Hoare: Both North and South Korea claim victory in the Korean War. Yet neither makes much of the ending of the war in July 1953, and both have had problems coming to terms with the reality of the war. The reality is that...Read more...

February 2004

International Studies Paper

Studies in the Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902-1923)

Gordon Daniels, Janet Hunter, Ian Nish and David Steeds

Daniels examined British media views of Japan by sampling local and national dailies, with emphasis on The Times and The Economist and magazines like Punch, The Graphic and The Illustrated London News. While the metropol...Read more...

January 2003

International Studies Paper

Anglo-Japanese Alliance

Ayako Hotta-Lister, Ian Nish and David Steeds

Nish dealt with the diplomacy of Britain and Japan in the five months before the conclusion of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, arguing that it was not a 'natural alliance' but that there were pockets of opposition to it whi...Read more...

April 2002

International Studies Paper

San Francisco: 50 Years On - Part Two

Roger Buckley, Valdo Ferretti, Neville Meaney and Ann Trotter

Buckley describes how Britain took the independent step of recognizing the People's Republic of China, a step which led to problems about China being invited to the San Francisco conference. After China's entry into the ...Read more...

September 2001