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Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020

implications for the severity of the COVID-19 recession, the design of policies, and the speed of the recovery …

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COVID-19 and SMEs : A 2021 "Time Bomb"?

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in SME failures triggered by the generous support policies … enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 "time-bomb" for SMEs … scenario, most business failures would not arise from excessively generous 2020 policies, but rather from the contraction of …

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Scientific Productivity and Academic Promotion : A Study on French and Italian Physicists

Lissoni, Francesco - 2010

promotion. Furthermore we show that the stop-and-go policies of recruitment and promotion, typical of the Italian and French …

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Innovation and Productivity in SMEs : Empirical Evidence for Italy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2008

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation success from firm surveys along with the usual R&D...

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Intangible Capital and Productivity : An Exploration on a Panel of Italian Manufacturing Firms

Bontempi, Maria Elena - 2008

The paper examines the size and productivity of total intangible capital relative to total tangible capital for a large panel of Italian Manufacturing firms. In the analysis, we decompose total intangibles in two different ways: in intangibles expensed in firms' current accounts (as usually...

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Employment, Innovation, and Productivity : Evidence from Italian Microdata

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2007

contribution of innovation in general to productivity growth is almost nil in Italy during this period …

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Innovation and Productivity across Four European Countries

Griffith, Rachel - 2006

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a considerable number of national firm-level studies analysing...

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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries

Mohnen, Pierre - 2006

: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a …

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Foreign Investment and Domestic Productivity : Identifying Knowledge Spillovers and Competition Effects

Fons-Rosen, Christian - 2017

We study the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) of domestic firms using a new, representative firm-level data set spanning six countries. A novel finding is that firm-level spillovers from foreign firms to domestic companies can be significantly...

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Evidence on the Impact of R&D and ICT Investment on Innovation and Productivity in Italian Firms

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012

Both Research and Development (R&D) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) investment have been identified as sources of relative innovation underperformance in Europe vis-à-vis the United States. In this paper we investigate R&D and ICT investment at the firm level in an effort to...

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