manufacturing and for services sectors. Table 1 reveals that the labour productivity is 158,594 Euro per employee on average. The … codes: J14; J24; O33 ISBN 978- 87-7873-271-2 Acknowledgements: The research is part of the project “Explaining ….9% in 2005 (Aliaga and Romans, 2006).2 This development represents a great challenge for firms. High productivity is an …

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Household Wealth Management. 1 CSEF, SHARE and University of Salerno; E-mail: cdimitri@unisa.it 2 University of Frankfurt … Participation to Location and to Participation Spillovers* Dimitris Christelis 1 , Dimitris Georgarakos 2 , and Michael … 2 each mode separately, due to the substantial technical difficulties associated with modeling numerous decisions …

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term prudence and showed that it is necessary and sufficient for a precautionary savings motive2, the interest in the 1 We … third-degree risk aversion as defined in Ekern (1980). 2 That means, the awareness of uncertainty in future payoffs will … raise an individual’s optimal saving today. 1 2 Ebert and Wiesen: An experimental methodology testing for prudence and …