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The paper focuses on empirical analysis of major factors that determine innovation activities of Russian manufacturing firms during the crisis. We presume that the crisis has ambiguous effects on firms' behaviour, on one hand limiting their financial capabilities to invest into new products...
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In 1997, the French government put into effect a law that permanently exempted young French male citizens born after Jan 1, 1979 from mandatory military service while still requiring those born before that cutoff date to serve. This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to identify the...
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-industrial states relied on private individuals to collect taxes; (ii) why after 1600 both England and France moved from competitive … self-undermining in England where it was quickly replaced by direct collection, but lasted in France until the French …
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This paper explores the rise of the fiscal state in the early modern period and its impact on legal capacity. To measure legal capacity, we establish that witchcraft trials were more likely to take place where the central state had weak legal insti- tutions. Combining data on the geographic...
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economic growth in France over the period 1961-2006 with using geostatistical models (kiriging and inverse distance weighting …
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economic growth in France over the period 1960_2005 with using geostatistical models (kiriging and IDW). This approach imitates …
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"Evidence-based medicine” approaches began to be formalized in the early 1990s to promote a conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in decision-making on care for individual patients. These approaches were subsequently extended to other spheres of public decision...
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Using CIS data from the Netherlands, Germany and France we test whether EU Framework programs do have effects on their …
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France, Italy and Spain. In all three countries, these institutions played an important role in the retail banking sector …
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. The relationship obtained for France is characterized by A0=-1, A1=4, A2=0.095, t0=4 years, and t1=4 years. For GDP … Banque de France monetary policy introduced in 1995 does not disturb the long-term links. All the individual relationships … force change indicates that since 1995 the Banque de France has been wrongly applying the policy fixing the monetary growth …
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