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Productivity and Machinery Investment : A Long Run Look 1870-1980
DeLong, J. Bradford - 2010
Over the past century the long-run growth of six economies shows a strong association between investment in machinery …, and that a high rate of machinery investment is a necessary prerequisite for rapid long-run productivity growth - a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763337
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Financial Factors and Investment in Belgium, France, Germany and the Uk : A Comparison Using Company Panel Data
Bond, Stephen R. - 2010
We construct company panel datasets for manufacturing firms in Belgium, France, Germany and the UK, covering the period … 1978-89. These datasets are used to estimate a range of empirical investment equations, and to investigate the role played … the suggestion that financial constraints on investment may be relatively severe in the more market-oriented UK financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763672
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Firm Level Investment and R&D in France and the United States : A Comparison
Mulkay, Benoit; Hall, Bronwyn H.; Mairesse, Jacques - 2021
incorporates both output (sales or turnover) and cash flow as predictors for investment. Our focus is on two comparisons: France …This paper is a contribution to the small but growing literature that compares the investment and R&D behavior of … of a simple error-corrected investment model for both ordinary investment and for R&D investment, a model that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222959
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Labor and Investment Demand at the Firm Level : a Comparison of French, German and U.S. Manufacturing, 1970-79
Mairesse, Jacques; Dormont, Brigitte - 2021
We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment … for the important changes and differences in labor and investment demand between the two subperiods and across the three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235901
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Revisiting European Unemployment : Unemployment, Capital Accumulation, and Factor Prices
Blanchard, Olivier J. - 2000
This paper starts from two sets of facts about Continental Europe.The first is the steady increase in unemployment since the early 1970s. The second is the evolution of the capital share, an initial decline in the 1970s, followed by a much larger increase since the mid-1980s. The paper then...
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The U.S. Left Behind : The Rise of IPO Activity Around the World
Doidge, Craig - 2011
During the past two decades, there has been a dramatic change in IPO activity around the world. Though vibrant IPO activity, attributed to better institutions and governance, used to be a strength of the U.S., it no longer is. IPO activity in the U.S. has fallen compared to the rest of the world...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127767
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Capitalizing China
Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2011
Despite a vast accumulation of private capital, China is not embracing capitalism. Deceptively familiar capitalist features disguise the profoundly unfamiliar foundations of "market socialism with Chinese characteristics." The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), by controlling the career advancement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117212
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Non-Linear Effects of Taxation on Growth
Jaimovich, Nir - 2012
We propose a model consistent with two observations. First, the tax rates adopted by different countries are generally uncorrelated with their growth performance. Second, countries that drastically reduce private incentives to invest, severely hurt their growth performance. In our model, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099129
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Is Poland the Next Spain?
Caselli, Francesco - 2012
We revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both higher rates of physical capital accumulation and greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101075
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Water Availability as a Constraint on China's Future Growth
Medianu, Dana - 2012
efficiency units enters the production technology, and investment in water management assets raises efficiency of water use. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105455