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Fragmentation, Incomes and Jobs : An Analysis of European Competitiveness
Timmer, Marcel P. - 2013
Increasing fragmentation of production across borders is changing the nature of international competition. As a result, conventional indicators of competitiveness based on gross exports become less informative and new measures are needed. In this paper we propose an ex-post accounting framework...
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Are Foreign-Owned Firms Different? Comparison of Employment Volatility and Elasticity of Labour Demand
Meriküll, Jaanika - 2014
This paper analyses differences in employment volatility in foreign-owned and domestic companies using firm-level data from 24 European countries. The presence of foreign-owned companies may lead to higher employment volatility because subsidiaries of multinational companies react more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051164
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New Technologies and Jobs in Europe
Albanesi, Stefania; Dias da Silva, Antonio; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2023
We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011-2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we find that on average employment shares have increased in...
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Wages, Labor or Prices : How do Firms React to Shocks?
Dhyne, Emmanuel - 2010
Survey results in 15 European countries for almost 15,000 firms reveal that Belgian firms react more than the average European firm to adverse shocks by reducing permanent and temporary employment. On the basis of a firm-level analysis, this paper confirms that the different reaction to shocks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141681
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EMU and the Adjustment to Asymmetric Shocks : The Case of Italy
Amisano, Gianni - 2009
at a time-varying VAR model of Italy's relative performance compared with the rest of the euro area, spanning from 1976 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153396
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Does it Pay to Have the Euro? Italy's Politics and Financial Markets under the Lira and the Euro
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2009
's prosperity. The paper focuses on political events in Italy over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in … 1999 has helped insulate Italy's financial markets from the adverse consequences of its traditionally unstable political … system. We find that important political events have exerted a statistically and economically significant effect on Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159357
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Bank Lending and Monetary Transmission in the Euro Area
De Santis, Roberto A. - 2013
in Germany and Italy, which are characterized by a large number of banks; but it is very weak in Spain and more … savings banks with smaller size in Italy. Third, heterogeneity across groups of banks belonging to the same category in any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078975
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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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The Italian Block of the Escb Multi-Country Model
Angelini, Elena; D'Agostino, Antonello; McAdam, Peter - 2021
This paper documents the structure, estimation and simulation properties of the Italian block of the ESCB-multi-country model (MCM). The model is used regularly as an input into Eurosystem projection exercises and, to a lesser extent, in simulation analysis. The specification of the Italian...
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Relative House Price Dynamics Across Euro Area and US Cities : Convergence or Divergence?
Hiebert, Paul - 2010
differentials in explaining city-level house price dispersion in Germany, France, and the US (but not in Italy or Spain once …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142991