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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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COVID-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020
, Education, and Other Services are among the most affected sectors. The jobs at risk due to COVID-19 related SME business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481180
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COVID-19 and SMEs : A 2021 "Time Bomb"?
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in SME failures triggered by the generous support policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482634
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Innovation and Productivity in SMEs : Empirical Evidence for Italy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2008
Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation success from firm surveys along with the usual R&D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464055
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Do Women Pay More for Credit? Evidence from Italy
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2008
-employed individuals, we find robust evidence that women in Italy pay more for overdraft facilities than men. We could not find any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464445
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466452
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Measuring ancient inequality
Milanovic, Branko - 2007
"Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521497
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Mortality Risk, Inflation Risk, and Annuity Products
Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2000
As growing numbers of retirees reach retirement age with substantial balances in self-directed retirement plans, annuities are likely to become increasingly important instruments for drawing down retirement savings. This study explores recent trends in the pricing of single-premium annuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470938
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The Distributional Burden of Taxing Estates and Unrealized Capital Gains at the Time of Death
Poterba, James M. - 2000
The 1998 Survey of Consumer Finances provides information on household wealth ownership that can be used to estimate the effect of changing the Unified Estate and Gift Tax Credit on estate tax revenues. The survey also includes data on the prices at which assets were purchased, along with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470939
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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development : An Empirical Investigation
Acemoglu, Daron - 2000
We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on … could settle in the colony. In places where Europeans faced high mortality rates, they could not settle and they were more … supporting these hypotheses. Exploiting differences in mortality rates faced by soldiers, bishops and sailors in the colonies in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470979