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outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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What is the socially optimal level of liquidity in a retirement savings system? Liquid retirement savings are desirable because liquidity enables agents to flexibly respond to pre-retirement events that raise the marginal utility of consumption. On the other hand, pre-retirement liquidity is...
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We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U …
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Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess … relative to national account is examined. Coverage rates are highest in Canada and the UK. Over the past three decades coverage … remained fairly stable in Canada and Australia; in the UK and US coverage rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top …
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This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...
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; Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Each of the three countries uses the Supply and Use framework (variant of Input Output … institutional sectors of the economy. In Canada the supply and use framework is used to determine the level of GDP but not all of … expenditures and net lending/borrowing across sectors. This allows Canada to track the statistical system which provides …
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pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare the US with Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and also with Canada …, which is closer to European than the US is in its labor market and fiscal institutions. Europe's (and to some extent Canada …
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We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level productivity, profitability, Tobin%u2019s Q, sales growth and...
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public policy objectives, including value-creation, innovation, and competition. A number of novel data-collection methods …, including value-creation, as measured by the likelihood and size of IPOs and Mamp;As, and innovation, as measured by patents. It …
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There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …
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