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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries

Harrison, Rupert - 2014

This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these … firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to … innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …

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On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks

Alfaro, Laura - 2019

. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset on the universe of corporate …

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Trends in Labor Force Participation of Older Workers in Spain

Garcia-Gomez, Pilar - 2018

Similar to other OECD countries, labor force participation rates of Spanish older workers were falling until the mid-1990s when there was a reversal in the trend. Labor force participation rates of Spanish men have been increasing since then, although at a slower pace than in other OECD...

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Globalization, Growth and Distribution in Spain 1500-1913

Roses, Joan R. - 2010

Spain, a country which had relatively poor productivity growth in agriculture and low living standards prior to 1800, was a …

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Democracy and Globalization

Eichengreen, Barry - 2010

The connections between globalization and democracy are a classic question in international political economy and a topic much debated in foreign policy circles. While the analytical literature is extensive, few previous studies have acknowledged the possibility of bidirectional causality or...

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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus

Stock, James H. - 2020

This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...

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Assessing the Age Specificity of Infection Fatality Rates for Covid-19 : Meta-Analysis & Public Policy Implications

Levin, Andrew T. - 2020

To assess age-specific infection fatality rates (IFRs) for COVID-19, we have conducted a systematic review of seroprevalence studies as well as countries with comprehensive tracing programs. Age-specific IFRs were computed using the prevalence data in conjunction with reported fatalities four...

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Mpc Heterogeneity in Europe : Sources and Policy Implications

Ampudia, Miguel - 2018

stock returns. Monetary policy has a larger impact on consumption in Italy and Spain compared to France and Germany …

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Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality : Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

Clay, Karen - 2015

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic killed millions worldwide and hundreds of thousands in the United States. This paper studies the impact of air pollution on pandemic mortality. The analysis combines a panel dataset on infant and all-age mortality with a novel measure of air pollution based on the...

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Sequential Markets, Market Power and Arbitrage

Ito, Koichiro - 2014

We develop a theoretical framework to characterize strategic behavior in sequential markets under imperfect competition and limited arbitrage. Our theory predicts that these two elements can generate a systematic price premium. We test the model predictions using micro-data from the Iberian...

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