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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 rates. Management practices also display significant cross …

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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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The Dynamics of Car Sales : A Discrete Choice Approach

Adda, Jerome - 2000

Mankiw [1982] explores the Permanent Income Hypothesis implication that durable expenditures follow an ARMA(1,1) representation. He finds that durable expenditures are represented by an AR(1) process which implies that the rate of depreciation of durables, under the PIH model, is 100%. This...

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Selling Company Shares to Reluctant Employees : France Telecom's Experience

Degeorge, Francois - 2000

In 1997, France T‚l‚com, the state-owned French telephone company, went through a partial privatization. The government … offered current and prior France T‚l‚com employees the opportunity to buy portfolios of shares with various combinations of …

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From Mill Town to Board Room : The Rise of Women's Paid Labor

Costa, Dora L. - 2000

In the twenty-first century many of the professional and high ranking managerial workers in the United States and in other OECD countries will be women. This change in women's social and economic status represents a dramatic break with the past, but one that can only be understood by looking to...

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Firm-Level Investment in France and the United States : An Exploration of What We Have Learned in Twenty Years

Mairesse, Jacques - 1999

Our two related goals in this paper are the following: Firstly and mainly, we want to examine the effects of major changes in modelling strategy and econometric methodology, over the past twenty years, on estimation of firm-level investment equations using panel data. Secondly, we try to assess...

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Quantifying Artistic Success : Ranking French Painters - and Paintings - from Impressionism to Cubism

Galenson, David W. - 1999

For 35 leading painters who lived in France during the first century of modern art, this paper uses textbook …

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Organizational Change in French Manufacturing : What Do We Learn From Firm Representatives and From Their Employees?

Greenan, Nathalie - 1999

In this paper, we use a French matched employer-employee survey, the COI survey, conducted in 1997, to describe the general features of organizational change in manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees. In a first section, we explore the methodological issues associated with the building...

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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 …

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Using Employee Level Data in a Firm Level Econometric Study

Mairesse, Jacques - 1999

In this paper, we make the general point that econometric studies of the firm can be effectively and substantially enriched by using information collected from employees, even if only a few of them are surveyed per firm. Though variables measured on the basis of the answers of very few employees...

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