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To Be or Not to Be Innovative : An Exercise in Measurement
Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre A. - 2021
framework. We first apply the framework to a comparison of the innovation performance of French manufacturing industries, while … original individual firm data. We also provide an overview of the results of a larger comparison of innovation across seven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247189
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Systemic Risk and the Macroeconomy : An Empirical Evaluation
Giglio, Stefano - 2015
This article evaluates a large collection of systemic risk measures based on their ability to predict macroeconomic downturns. We evaluate 19 measures of systemic risk in the US and Europe spanning several decades. We propose dimension reduction estimators for constructing systemic risk indexes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027685
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A New Metric for Banking Integration in Europe
Gropp, Reint - 2010
role of an active market for corporate control and of competition in banking integration. European listed banks … profitability appears to converge to a common level. There is weak evidence that competition eliminates high profits for these banks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757853
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Why does emissions trading under the EU ETS not affect firms' competitiveness? : empirical findings from the literature
Joltreau, Eugénie; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2017
Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profit-ability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms can be detected for the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We explain why there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785693
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Skills for Competitiveness : Leveraging Skills for Competitiveness in Europe
World Bank Group - 2018
The global technology and innovation frontier pushes forward at a rapid pace, and countries around the world seek to either keep up, or catch up. Countries at the frontier are forward-looking, have robust economies, are open to investment and technology, and have competitive, well-matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645775
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Labor market concentration and competition policy across the Atlantic
Araki, Satoshi; Bassanini, Andrea; Green, Andrew S.; … - 2022
of enforcement activity by European competition authorities in labor markets relative to the US. While enforcement action … competition enforcement in labor markets. The article identifies sectors and practices that may be scrutinized with priority by … European competition authorities and proposes a mix of enforcement, merger control and well-targeted policy and regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013415712
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Measuring the statistical capacity of nations
Cameron, Grant J.; Dang, Hai-Anh; Dinc, Mustafa; … - 2020
internationally comparable data. This paper reviews measurement methodologies, posits desired attributes, and presents theoretical and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316940
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Measuring Monetary Policy
Bernanke, Ben; Mihov, Ilian - 2021
Extending the approach of Bernanke and Blinder (1992), Strongin (1992), and Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans (1994a, 1994b), we develop and apply a VAR-based methodology for measuring the stance of monetary policy. More specifically, we develop a 'semi-structural' VAR approach, which extracts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218416
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Is the Distance to Default a Good Measure in Predicting Bank Failures? Case Studies
Harada, Kimie - 2010
This paper examines the movements of the Distance to Default (DD), a market-based measure of corporate default risk, of eight failed Japanese banks in order to evaluate the predictive power of the DD measure for bank failures. The DD became smaller in anticipation of failure in many cases. The...
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