European countries, namely the United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, and Norway. For this purpose, we use a structural …

largest in the US but insignificant in Italy and Slovenia. Trust in government has a negative effect on demand for … hypothesis, is also a significant correlate of preferences for redistribution, the effect being largest in Japan but small in the … effect is only significant in the US and Germany. Overall, the main theories that have been proposed to account for …

analysis includes the experience of four major European countries: France, Italy, the United Kingdom and West Germany. These … countries are known for diverging performances. Germany has the highest real per capita income, the lowest inflation, and the … side of the spectrum is Italy, but this nation is in fact composed of three economies - a highly developed and rapidly …

bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and liabilities of commercial banks from five countries (France, Germany …, Italy, UK, US) in up to 50 host countries for the years 1983 through 1998 to test this hypothesis. For the European banks …

data from the European innovation survey (CIS 2), covering Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK, broken down …, in Italy the introduction of new machinery linked to innovation appears as the key mechanism supporting domestic …