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Devotion and development : religiosity, education, and economic progress in 19th-century France
Squicciarini, Mara P. - 2019 - This version: 14th July 2019
growth, the Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914) in France. In this period, technology became skill-intensive, leading to …
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French CEO compensations : what is the cost of a mandatory upper limit?
Llense, Fabienne (contributor) - 2008
shaping of a market for executives in France. Characteristics of this market are estimated for France and a competitive model … elasticity of compensation in France is equal to 0.5 and justifies a large magnitude in compensation. To moderate those …
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The impact of industrialization on secondary schooling during the industrial revolution : evidence from 19th century France
Franck, Raphaël - 2023
This study explores the impact of industrialization on secondary schooling in 19th century France. As a source of … exogenous variation in industrialization across the French territory, it takes advantage of the openings and closures of mines … that industrialization had a negative but mostly insignificant effect on high-school enrollment. However, industrialization …
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Innovation networks in the industrial revolution
Rosenberger, Lukas; Hanlon, W. Walker; Hallmann, Carl - 2024
How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the … innovation network using patent data from Britain and France in the late-18th and early-19th century. We show that the network … quantify the implications for technology growth rates in Britain compared to France. Our results indicate that the shape of the …
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Deep dynamics
Gottfries, Nils; Mickelsson, Glenn; Stadin, Karolina - 2021
How do firms adjust their output, inventories, employment and capital in response to demandsideshocks? To understand this, we estimate a reduced-form model using firm-level panel dataand we construct a theoretical model that can match the estimated impulse-response functions.A combination of...
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Unraveling firms : demand, productivity and markups heterogeneity
Forlani, Emanuele; Martin, Ralf; Mion, Giordano; Muls, … - 2016 - First draft: 16th June 2015. This draft: January 15, 2016
We develop a new econometric framework that simultaneously allows recovering heterogeneity in demand, TFP and markups across firms while leaving the correlation among the three unrestricted. We do this by systematically exploiting assumptions that are implicit in previous firm-level productivity...
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Firm size and diversification : asymmetric multiproduct firms under Cournot competition
Grossmann, Volker - 2003
A positive relationship between firm size and product diversification is a long-standing stylized fact. However, so far there is no appropriate theoretical model to explain the underlying forces of this observation. This paper analyzes an oligopoly model with asymmetric multiproduct frms, which...
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Firm size and monetary policy transmission : evidence from German business survey data : presented at CEFifo conference "Academic Use of ifo Survey Data", December 2003
Ehrmann, Michael - 2004
Using business survey data on German manufacturing firms, this paper provides tests for hypotheses formulated in capital market imperfection theories that predict distributional effects in the transmission of monetary policy. The business conditions of small firms are found to be somewhat more...
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Size matters : corruption perceptions versus corruption experiences by firms
Goel, Rajeev K.; Mazhar, Ummad; Ram, Rati - 2021
This study uses a large firm-level data set covering more than 80 countries to explore the effects of firm-size, city-size, and government-size on perceived and experienced corruption. Four points summarize our main findings, which seem instructive and new. First, there is a broad structural...
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Large and influential : firm size and governments' corporate tax rate choice
Riedel, Nadine; Simmler, Martin - 2018
Theory suggests that large firms are more likely to engage in lobbying behaviour and are geographically more mobile than smaller entities. Conditional on jurisdiction size, policy choices are thus predicted to depend on the shape of a jurisdiction’s firm size distribution, with more...
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