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Business environment and firm entry : evidence from international data
Klapper, Leora - 2004
"Using a comprehensive database of firms in Western and Eastern Europe, we study how the business environment in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523101
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Convergent Evolution Toward the Joint-Stock Company
Le Bris, David; Goetzmann, William N.; Pouget, Sébastien - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
companies in England and the Netherlands in the early 17th century. Highlighting medieval cases in southern Europe, we claim …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014436952
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The Topography of Nations
Allen, Treb - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
simple algorithm for its calculation. When combined with detailed spatial geography data from Europe, the equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421232
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Why Doesn't the US Have a European-Style Welfare System?
Alesina, Alberto - 2001
these factors appear to explain the differences between the US and Europe. Instead, the differences appear to be the result …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470194
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A Century of Missing Trade?
Estevadeordal, Antoni - 2001
In contemporary data, the measured factor content of trade is far smaller than its predicted magnitude in the pure Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek framework, the so-called 'missing trade' mystery. We wonder if this problem has been there from the beginning: that is, we ask if the Heckscher-Ohlin theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470423
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Inequality and Happiness : Are Europeans and Americans Different?
Alesina, Alberto - 2001
happiness,' we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … Europe inequality makes the poor unhappy, as well as the leftists. This favors the hypothesis that inequality affects … right). The results help explain the greater popular demand for government to fight inequality in Europe relative to the US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470526
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Consumer City
Glaeser, Ed - 2000
Urban economics has traditionally viewed cities as having advantages in production and disadvantages in consumption. We argue that the role of urban density in facilitating consumption is extremely important and understudied. As firms become more mobile, the success of cities hinges more and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470960
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Labor Markets in Professional Sports
Rosen, Sherwin - 2000
contemporary labor issues in North America and Europe, from reserve rules and free agency, high levels of player pay and work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471202
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The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management
Kinnaman, Thomas C. - 1999
over the past decade both in the United States and in Europe. In response, economists have developed models to help policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471458
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What Determines Firm Size?
Kumar, Krishna B. - 1999
Motivated by theories of the firm, which we classify as technological' or organizational,' we analyze the determinants of firm size across industries and across countries in a sample of 15 European countries. We find that, on average, firms facing larger markets are larger. At the industry...
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