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Imports and profitability in the euro area manufacturing sector : the role of emerging market economies
Peltonen, Tuomas A.; Skala, Martin; Rivera, Alvaro Santos; … - 2008
The paper analyses the impact of import penetration on firms' profitability in 15 manufacturing industries in 10 euro area countries during 1995-2004, focusing on the role of emerging market economies. Our results indicate that import competition from emerging market economies has had an overall...
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The effect of durable goods and ICT on euro area productivity growth?
Jalava, Jukka (contributor);  … - 2008
and productivity change; when expenditure on consumer durables is recorded as capital investment. The capitalization of … consumer durables impacts both the levels and growth rates of the capital stock, productivity and GDP. Our growth accounting … productivity growth in 1995-2004. ICT's impacts were larger, i.e., one-fifth of GVA growth and one-sixth of labour productivity …
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Panel data estimates of the production function and product and labor market imperfections
Dobbelaere, Sabien (contributor);  … - 2007
Embedding the efficient bargaining model into the Hall (1988) approach for estimating price-cost margins shows that both imperfections in the product and labor markets generate a wedge between factor elasticities in the production function and their corresponding shares in revenue. This article...
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Employment and productivity growth in service and manufacturing sectors in France, Germany and the US
Wachter, Till von - 2001
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Evolution and sources of manufacturing productivity growth : evidence from a panel of European countries
Giannangeli, Silvia (contributor);  … - 2008
The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …
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Firm heterogeneity and aggregate business services exports : micro evidence from Belgium, France, Germany and Spain
Ariu, Andrea; Biewen, Elena; Blank, Sven; Gaulier, Guillaume - 2017
This paper uses detailed micro data on service exports at the firm-destination-service level to analyse the role of firm heterogeneity in shaping aggregate service exports in Belgium, France, Germany and Spain from 2003 to 2007. We decompose the level and the growth of aggregate service exports...
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Labour cost and employment across euro area countries and sectors
Pierluigi, Beatrice (contributor); Roma, Moreno (contributor) - 2008
This paper studies the role of wage moderation and labour and product market regulation for employment creation. To this end, labour demand estimates are presented for the five largest euro area countries at the aggregate level and for three macro sectors: manufacturing, construction and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782659
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Deeper, wider and more competitive? : monetary integration, Eastern enlargement and competitiveness in the European Union
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. (contributor);  … - 2007
competition drives less productive firms out the market, thereby increasing average productivity as well as reducing average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635984
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Understanding inter-industry wage structures in the euro area
Genre, Véronique; Kohn, Karsten; Momferatou, Daphne - 2009
firm-related characteristics (e.g., capital intensity, productivity) contribute significantly. However, considerable wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832004
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Banking sector output measurement in the euro area : a modified approach
Colangelo, Antonio; Inklaar, Robert - 2010
Banks do not charge explicit fees for many of the services they provide but the service payment is bundled with the offered interest rates. This output therefore has to be imputed using estimates of the opportunity cost of funds. We argue that rather than using the single short-term, low-risk...
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