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Urbanization and growth : why did the splendor of the Italian cities in the sixteenth century not lead to transition?

Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2014

In this paper we investigate the relation between population, wages and urban population in the Italian economy. During the period examined, 1320 - 1870, the prevailing conditions were those of a poor, mainly agricultural economy with limited human capital and rudimentary technology. However,...

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Dynamic models of R&D, innovation and productivity : panel data evidence for Dutch and French manufacturing

Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre A.; … - 2013

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly been estimated on cross-sectional data. It considers four nonlinear dynamic simultaneous equations models that include individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated...

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Techies and firm level productivity

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023

We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by leveraging French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with...

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Privatization experiences in France

Berne, Michel; Pogorel, Gérard - 2004

France lived through a long period of nationalization until the early 1980s, when nearly all the largest industrials … telecommunications operator France Telecom was simultaneously subjected to the deregulation of the telecom market in the world and to a …

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A life-cycle theory analysis of french household electricity demand

Belaïd, Fateh; Rault, Christophe; Massié, Camille - 2021

This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behaviour through the household life cycle and its response to income variations to help strengthen the energy policy-making process. Our empirical methodology is based on three rich independent microdata surveys...

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The many channels of firm's adjustment to energy shocks : evidence from France

Fontagné, Lionel; Martin, Philippe J.; Orefice, Gianluca - 2023

Based on firm level data in the French manufacturing sector, we find that firms adapt quickly, strongly and through multiple channels to energy shocks, even though electricity and gas bills represent a very small share of their total costs. Over the period 1996-2019, faced with an idiosyncratic...

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Multi-Factor Gegenbauer processes and European inflation rates

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2009

, Italy and the UK). The empirical results suggest that inflation in France and Italy is nonstationary. However, while for the … parameters at each frequency separately, and adopt this framework to model quarterly prices in three European countries (France … former country this applies both to the zero and the seasonal frequencies, in the case of Italy the nonstationarity comes …