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Maliranta, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri; Airaksinen, Aarno - 2008

This paper reviews the characteristics and magnitude of information technology (IT) outsourcing as well as studies its labor productivity effects with a representative sample of Finnish businesses. Depending on the IT task in question, on average from one-third to two-thirds of IT has been...

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Advancing information technology and financial intermediation

Mannonen, Pekka - 2001

The whole financial sector has been under a remarkable structural change, and one of the major contributing forces has been the rapid advance in information processing based on digital technology. The purpose of this paper is to model the influence of advancing information and transaction...

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Stock market valuation in the United States

Bisciari, Patrick; Durré, Alain; Nyssens, Alain - 2003

This paper gives an overview of some issues related to market valuation, focusing on the developments on the New York equity markets. The 42.4 p.c. fall in the S&P 500 price index between 24 March 2000 - when it reached its all-time high - and 31 December 2002 is situated in a very long term...

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Evaluating national innovation systems: Key insights from the Finnish innoeval survey

Kotiranta, Annu; Nikulainen, Tuomo; Tahvanainen, Antti-Jussi - 2009

This paper aims to provide new insights into the analysis of National Innovation Systems (NIS). Whereas the common approach is to analyze specific parts or a defined set of actors and their interactions, this paper attempts to take a more systemic approach by analyzing results of 13 surveys...

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Pockets of risk in the Belgian mortgage market: Evidence from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS)

Du Caju, Philip - 2017

This paper complements macroeconomic indicators for macroprudential policy with information from microeconomic survey … data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), to identify pockets of risk in the Belgian mortgage market … outstanding mortgage debt in Belgium. All in all, this paper shows that survey data can complement macro data for macroprudential …

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Price-setting behaviour in Belgium: what can be learned from an ad hoc survey?

Aucremanne, Luc; Druant, Martine - 2005

This paper reports the results of an ad hoc survey on price-setting behaviour conducted in February 2004 among 2 … contracts) and real rigidities (including flat marginal costs and counter-cyclical movements in desired mark-ups). The survey …

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How are firms’ wages and prices linked: survey evidence in Europe

Druant, Martine; Fabiani, Silvia; Kezdi, Gabor; Lamo, Ana; … - 2009

nominal rigidities. It uses a unique dataset collected through a firm-level survey conducted in a broad range of countries and …

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Wages, labor or prices: How do firms react to shocks?

Dhyne, Emmanuel; Druant, Martine - 2010

Survey results in 15 European countries for almost 15,000 firms reveal that Belgian firms react more than the average …

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The role of data and knowledge in firms' service and product innovation

Koski, Heli - 2012

The importance of data and different sources of knowledge in the development of new services and products, and further in the creation of new markets, has dramatically increased during the past few decades. This empirical study uses data from 531 Finnish firms to explore the determinants of...

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Durable goods and ICT: The drivers of Euro area productivity growth?

Jalava, Jukka; Kavonius, Ilja Kristian - 2008

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effect of durable goods and ICT on Euro Area economic growth and productivity change; when expenditure on consumer durables is recorded as capital investment. The capitalization of consumer durables impacts both the levels and growth rates of the...

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