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Wall Street's First Corporate Governance Crisis : The Panic of 1826
Hilt, Eric - 2009
financial practices by their management. Although mostly forgotten today, these events represented a watershed in the early …
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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection : The Transaction Costs of REDD
Alston, Lee J. - 2011
Understanding and minimizing the transaction costs of policy implementation are critical for reducing tropical forest losses. As the international community prepares to launch REDD+, a global initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tropical deforestation, policymakers need to pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461901
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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 …-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross … tail of extremely badly managed firms. We find that poor management practices are more prevalent when (a) product market …
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Closing the Productivity Gap with the US : Causes and Consequences of the Productivity Program in Western Europe
Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
promoted management training trips for European managers at US firms. Through the analysis of reports compiled by UK, France … increase thanks to the program. The fact that European businesses were not forced to adopt the American management model, but …
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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus
Stock, James H. - 2020
This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...
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Does Trade Cause Capital to Flow? Evidence from Historical Rainfalls
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2010
Estimating the effect of trade on capital flows is difficult given the inherent identification problem. We use fluctuations in rainfall to capture the exogenous variation in trade between Germany, France, the U.K., and the Ottoman Empire during 1859-1913. The provisionistic policy of the Ottoman...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462618
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Productivity Growth and Levels in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Twentieth Century
Cette, Gilbert - 2009
Capital deepening (at least to the extent this can be measured) accounts for a large share of the variations in performance; increasingly during the past 25 years, this has meant ICT capital deepening. However, the capital contribution to growth varies considerably over time and across the four...
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New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble
Frehen, Rik G.P. - 2009
The first global financial bubble in stock prices occurred 1720 in Paris, London and the Netherlands. Explanations for these linked bubbles primarily focus on the irrationality of investor speculation and the corresponding stock price behavior of two large firms: the South Sea Company in Great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463318
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Currency Mismatches, Default Risk, and Exchange Rate Depreciation : Evidence from the End of Bimetallism
Bordo, Michael D. - 2006
It is generally very difficult to measure the effects of a currency depreciation on a country's balance sheet and financing costs given the endogenous properties of the exchange rate. History provides at least one natural experiment to test whether an exogenous exchange rate depreciation can be...
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Innovation Networks in the Industrial Revolution
Rosenberger, Lukas; Hanlon, W. Walker; Hallmann, Carl - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors worked in technologies that were more central...
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