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We estimate the impact of COVID-19 on business failures for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using firm-level data in seventeen countries. Absent government support, the failure rate of SMEs would have increased by 9.1 percentage points, representing 4.6 percent of private sector...
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US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm …
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and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a …This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between Ramp;D expenditure, innovation output and …
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characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …
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marginal value of being an entrepreneur as a function of wealth. Countries with high start-up costs such as Italy, Spain and …
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We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...
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contributions to welfare for a set of European OECD countries (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain), using industry …
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, Italy and Spain). To highlight some results, we find a positive short-run effect for GDP and life expectancy on subjective … go back at least 200 years further using our methods. We analyse data for six countries (the USA, UK, Germany, France …
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This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...
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accounts). We use survey data on household portfolios for the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, and … Spain to document the share of such households across countries, their demographic characteristics, the composition of their …
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