US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm …

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 …

characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …

marginal value of being an entrepreneur as a function of wealth. Countries with high start-up costs such as Italy, Spain and …

contributions to welfare for a set of European OECD countries (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain), using industry …

, 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 …

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 …