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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 …
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A Comparison of Monthly Global Indicators for Forecasting Growth
Baumeister, Christiane; Guérin, Pierre - 2021
This paper evaluates the predictive content of a set of alternative monthly indicators of global economic activity for nowcasting and forecasting quarterly world GDP using mixed-frequency models. We find that a recently proposed indicator that covers multiple dimensions of the global economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221958
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External validation of the use of vignettes in cross-country health studies
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Kristensen, Nicolai; Pozzoli, Dario - 2009
-country health comparison ; vignettes ; subjective and objective measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808611
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An innovation index based on knowledge capital investment : definition and results for the UK market sector
Clayton, Tony; Borgo, Mariela Dal; Haskel, Jonathan - 2009
We (a) propose an implementable innovation index, (b) relate it to existing innovation definitions and (c) show whole-economy and industry-specific results for the UK market sector, 2000-2005. Our innovation measure starts by observing that we could get more GDP without innovation by simply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811075
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the Eurozone : a cross-country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2015
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a multidimensional setting by considering the joint...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288530
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Global poverty goals and prices : how purchasing power parity matters
Jolliffe, Dean; Prydz, Espen Beer - 2015
With the recent release of the 2011 purchasing power parity (PPP) data from the International Comparison Program (ICP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528588
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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration
Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich nations' well-being; Great Britain and the US enter further down; France and Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380028
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Who Shrunk China? Puzzles in the Measurement of Real GDP
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2012
The latest World Bank estimates of real GDP per capita for China are significantly lower than previous ones. We review possible sources of this puzzle and conclude that it reflects a combination of factors, including substitution bias in consumption, reliance on urban prices which we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112848
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Measuring Real Investment : Trends in the United States and International Comparisons
Kirova, Milka S. - 2010
The standard measures of nominal capital formation show the United States investing a proportion of GDP much lower than those of other developed countries throughout the last 25 years and falling further behind over time. In contrast, measures we have calculated in real terms across countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763622
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Regulating Mismeasured Pollution : Implications of Firm Heterogeneity for Environmental Policy
Lyubich, Eva - 2018
This paper provides the first estimates of within-industry heterogeneity in energy and CO2 productivity for the entire U.S. manufacturing sector. We measure energy and CO2 productivity as output per dollar energy input or per ton CO2 emitted. Three findings emerge. First, within narrowly defined...
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