This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain …

accounts). We use survey data on household portfolios for the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, and … Spain to document the share of such households across countries, their demographic characteristics, the composition of their …

US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm …

Group-of-Five (G-5) countries: France, West Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and United states. It is assumed that all … France, West Germany and Japan, and between 8 and 10 percent per annum for the U.K. and the U.S. for the period under study …, the productive efficiencies of France, West Germany and Japan rose rapidly from less than 40 percent of the U.S. level in …

implement a case-study on the response of banks in France, Germany, Italy and Spain to a monetary tightening. The episode we …