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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries
Harrison, Rupert - 2008
innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464431
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Innovation and Productivity across Four European Countries
Griffith, Rachel - 2006
This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a … still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between R&D expenditure, innovation output and productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465938
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Technology's Edge : The Educational Benefits of Computer-Aided Instruction
Barrow, Lisa - 2008
We present results from a randomized study of a well-defined use of computers in schools: a popular instructional computer program for pre-algebra and algebra. We assess the program using a test designed to target pre-algebra and algebra skills. Students randomly assigned to computer-aided...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464407
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The Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy in Europe : Evidence from Banks' Balance Sheets
Favero, Carlo A. - 1999
implement a case-study on the response of banks in France, Germany, Italy and Spain to a monetary tightening. The episode we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471558
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International Transmission Under Bretton Woods
Stockman, Alan C. - 1992
This paper explores the main channels of international transmission of economic disturbances under the Bretton Woods System and presents evidence on the short-run international transmission of inflation under that system. There appears to have been little short-run international transmission of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474846
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Tastes and Technology in a Two-Country Model of the Business Cycle : Explaining International Comovements
Stockman, Alan C. - 1990
This paper studies the international transmission of business cycles by developing a two-country real business-cycle model and confronting it with a broad set of empirical observations. These observations include variances and covariances of output, labor, consumption, employment, and investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475480
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Who Are the Hand-to-Mouth?
Aguiar, Mark A. - 2020
Many households hold little wealth, especially liquid wealth. In precautionary savings models, absent preference heterogeneity, these households should display not only higher marginal propensities to consume (MPCs), but also lower average propensities to consume (APCs) and higher future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479167
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MPC Heterogeneity in Europe : Sources and Policy Implications
Ampudia, Miguel - 2018
policy-induced variations in stock returns. Finally, monetary contractions have a larger impact on consumption in Germany and … France while expansions have a larger impact in Italy and Spain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480733
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482082
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What Can Stockouts Tell Us About Inflation? Evidence from Online Micro Data
Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2021 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in shortages in nearly all sectors early in the pandemic. Over time, the composition of...
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