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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries

Mohnen, Pierre; Mairesse, Jacques; Dagenais, Marcel - 2021

: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a …

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Happiness Adaptation to Income Beyond "Basic Needs"

Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 2021

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different...

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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. Versus Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the redistributive policy chosen democratically in a society. But the composition of income in the first place depends on equilibrium tax policies. If a society believes that individual effort...

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Taxation and International Migration of Superstars : Evidence from the European Football Market

Kleven, Henrik - 2010

This paper analyzes the effects of top earnings tax rates on the international migration of football players in Europe … leagues of 14 Western European countries since 1985. We identify the effects of top earnings tax rates on migration using a … players. We start by presenting reduced-form graphical evidence showing large and compelling migration responses to country …

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Liquidity Management and Corporate Investment During a Financial Crisis

Campello, Murillo - 2010

This paper uses a unique dataset to study how firms managed liquidity during the financial crisis. Our analysis provides new insights on the interactions between internal liquidity, external funds, and real corporate decisions, such as investment and employment. We first describe how companies...

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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis : Us vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias - 2010

stabilizers in Eastern and Southern Europe are much lower than in Central and Northern European countries. We also investigate …

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Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth

Comin, Diego A. - 2012

In the aftermath of World War II, the world's economies exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that also saw an acceleration in the speed of adoption of new technologies....

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In the Eye of a Storm : Manhattan's Money Center Banks During the International Financial Crisis of 1931

Richardson, Gary - 2011

In the summer of 1931, a financial crisis began in Austria, spread to Germany, forced Britain to abandon the gold …

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How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction

Voigtländer, Nico - 2011

Europeans restricted their fertility long before the Demographic Transition. By raising the marriage age of women and ensuring that a substantial proportion remained celibate, the "European Marriage Pattern" (EMP) reduced childbirths by up to one third between the 14th and 18th century. In a...

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Trade Credit Contracts

Klapper, Leora F. - 2011

We employ a novel dataset on almost 30,000 trade credit contracts to describe the broad characteristics of the parties that contract together and the key contractual terms of these contracts. Whereas prior work has typically used information on only one side of the buyer-seller transaction, this...

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