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Firm Level Investment and R&D in France and the United States : A Comparison

Mulkay, Benoit; Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mairesse, Jacques - 2021

This paper is a contribution to the small but growing literature that compares the investment and R&D behavior of manufacturing firms in large developed countries that have varying financial and capital market institutions. Specifically, we look at two similar samples of French and United States...

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Labor and Investment Demand at the Firm Level : a Comparison of French, German and U.S. Manufacturing, 1970-79

Mairesse, Jacques; Dormont, Brigitte - 2021

We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment separately) differs in French, German and U.S. manufacturing, and has changed since the 1974-75 crisis. We use three consistent panel data samples of large firms for1970-79, and rely...

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Bias in U.S. Import Prices and Demand

Feenstra, Robert C.; Shiells, Clinton R. - 2021

The purpose of the paper is to measure the potential bias in the U.S. import price index due to the appearance of new product varieties, or new foreign suppliers, and determine the effect of this bias on the estimated income elasticity of import demand. Existing import price indexes are based on...

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U.S. Imports, Exports, and Tariff Data, 1989-2001

Feenstra, Robert C.; Romalis, John; Schott, Peter K. - 2021

This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the year 2001, disaggregated by Harmonized System (HS), Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), and the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) categories. In...

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Firm-Level Investment in France and the United States : An Exploration of What We Have Learned in Twenty Years

Mairesse, Jacques; Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mulkay, Benoit - 2021

changes in modelling strategy and econometric methodology, over the past twenty years, on estimation of firm-level investment … correction, traditional between- and within-firm estimation versus GMM estimation, the investment behavior of French firms versus … significant improvement in the specification, estimation and interpretation of firm investment equations; we also fin some real …

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