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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Bloom, Nick - 2006

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's Q, sales growth and survival...

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Innovation Networks in the Industrial Revolution

Rosenberger, Lukas; Hanlon, W. Walker; Hallmann, Carl - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors … worked in technologies that were more central within the innovation network. We offer a new approach for measuring the … innovation network using patent data from Britain and France in the late-18th and early-19th century. We show that the network …

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The Big Tech Lending Model

Liu, Lei; Lu, Guangli; Xiong, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

By comparing uncollateralized business loans made by a big tech lending program with conventional bank loans, we find that big tech loans tend to be smaller and have higher interest rates and that borrowers of big tech loans tend to repay far before maturity and borrow more frequently. These...

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A Tale of Two Labor Markets : Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the U.S. Since 1850

Long, Jason - 2005

twentieth century. We extend this comparison into the late nineteenth century using longitudinal data on 23,000 nationally …

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The Architecture of the System of National Accounts : A Three Country Comparison, Canada, Australia, and United Kingdom

Wilson, Karen - 2005

system, as an example of the European system, best meets the standard for international comparison purposes …

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The Case of the Missing Productivity Growth : Or, Does Information Technology Explain why Productivity Accelerated in the US but not the UK?

Basu, Susanto - 2003

We argue that unmeasured investments in intangible organizational capital associated with the role of information and communications technology (ICT) as a general purpose technology' can explain the divergent U.S. and U.K. TFP performance after 1995. GPT stories suggest that measured TFP should...

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Sources of Funds and Investment Activities of Venture Capital Funds : Evidence from Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK

Mayer, Colin - 2003

We compare sources of funds and investment activities of venture capital (VC) funds in Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK using a newly constructed data set. The data provide a rare opportunity to evaluate relations between funds' sources of finance and activities. We find that sources of VC...

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Unionization and Wage Inequality : A Comparative Study of the U.S, the U.K., and Canada

Card, David - 2003

-union sectors that can be used as a comparison group for the union sector. Using comparable micro data for the last two decades, we …

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Puzzles in the Forex Tokyo “Fixing” : Order Imbalances and Biased Pricing by Banks

Ito, Takatoshi - 2016

"Fixing" in the foreign exchange market is a market practice that determines the bid-ask-mid-point exchange rate at a scheduled time, 10am in Tokyo and 4pm in London. The fixing exchange rate is then applied to the settlement of foreign exchange transactions between banks and retail customers...

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Life-Cycle Consumption Patterns at Older Ages in the US and the UK : Can Medical Expenditures Explain the Difference?

Banks, James - 2016

In this paper we document significantly steeper declines in nondurable expenditures in the UK compared to the US, in spite of income paths being similar. We explore several possible causes, including different employment paths, housing ownership and expenses, levels and paths of health status,...

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