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The euro, the Gold Standard, and German power : a cautionary tale and the lessons of history

Crawford, Beverly; Rezai, Armon - 2017

Pundits around the world have criticized Germany for either trying to reshape Europe in its image or acting in its own self-interest. Germany has been accused of creating a new "empire," of pursuing a new Sonderweg, of "going global alone," of evasiveness, self-imposed isolation, and bullying....

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Non-Base Wage Components as a Source of Wage Adaptability to Shocks : Evidence from European Firms, 2010-2013

Babecký, Jan - 2018

This paper provides evidence on the role of non-base wage components as a channel for firms to adjust labour costs in the event of adverse shocks. It uses data from a firm-level survey for 25 European countries that covers the period 2010–2013. We find that firms subject to nominal wage...

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Organisational determinants of training

Russo, Giovanni - 2022

Organisations centring their operations around human resources, in which skills are instrumental to the attainment of organisational goals, should create a climate to incentivise performance: the returns on any training depend on employee performance. To elicit such performance, organisations...

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Ranking, Risk-Taking and Effort : An Analysis of the ECB's Foreign Reserves Management

Scalia, Antonio; Sahel, Benjamin - 2021

The investment of the ECB reserves in US dollars and yen, delegated to a network of portfolio managers in the … existence of risk-shifting behaviour by reserve managers related to their year-to-date ranking: interim losers increase relative … risk in the second half of the year, in the same way as mutual fund managers. In the dollar case, risk-shifting is …

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Carbon emissions and the cost of debt financing : what role for policy commitment, firm disclosure and corporate governance?

Palea, Vera; Drogo, Federico - 2020 - This version 6 February 2020

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Venture capital and growth of young high-tech firms in the EU : a systematic review of the empirical evidence

Pantea, Smaranda; Tkacik, Marcel - 2021

This study contributes to the debate on VC-related policies that aim to support the growth of young high-tech firms in the EU. The study provides a systematic review of the results of 22 firm-level studies that estimate causal effects of VC using counterfactual impact evaluation methods and data...

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Inter-Industry Wage Differentials in EU Countries : What Do Cross-Country Time Varying Data Add to the Picture?

Lamo, Ana - 2011

This paper documents the existence and main patterns of inter-industry wage differentials across a large number of industries for 8 EU countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain) at two points in time (in general 1995 and 2002) and explores possible...

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On the Real Effects of Private Equity Investment : Evidence from New Business Creation

Popov, Alexander A. - 2010

Using a comprehensive database of European firms, we study how private equity affects the rate of firm entry. We find that private equity investment benefits new business incorporation, especially in industries with naturally higher entry rates and R&D intensity. A two standard deviation...

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Productivity and firm dynamics over the business cycle

Assefa, Abraham; Lapitskaya, Darya; Uusküla, Lenno - 2022

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Determinants of Firms’ Efficiency : Do Innovations and Finance Constraints Matter? The Case of European Smes

Bonanno, Graziella - 2020

This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation activities. We enrich our understanding on firms' performance by adopting the stochastic frontier approach (SFA), which allows us to estimate profit functions and to obtain...

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