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this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by visiting selected paper mills in Finland, the U.S., Germany and … relatively similar firms lends credence to the insights provided by Denrell, Fang and Winter (2003) and Zott (2003), among others … innovative activity in traditional industries such as pulp and paper. -- incremental innovation, ICT investments, modernization …
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We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First,...
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linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …
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illustrate our approach by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant, sizeable and robust …
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to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …
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Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...
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economic growth. The model is estimated using quarterly data for Germany, the UK and the US from 1960 to 1999. Our econometric …
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and Germany to condition the relationship between real wages and business fluctuations on the phase of the cycle, it is … demonstrated that the inconclusive evidence is not only caused by measurement problems, estimation method and composition bias as … general, the evidence for countercyclical wages is stronger in Germany than for the US, but taken together there is no clear …
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the travel activities of the heads of state of France, Germany and the United States between 1948 and 2003. My results …
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dropped on average by -55% in the US and -45% in Germany from the onset of the crisis to the summer of 2021. In the US …, schools were closed longer in richer than in poorer areas, while in Germany the regional variation is much smaller. However …, Germany exhibited substantial variation by grade level, with a strong U-shaped patterns that implies that children attending …
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