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We use a novel disaggregate sectoral euro area data set with a regional breakdown to investigate price changes and suggest a new method to extract factors from over-lapping data blocks. This allows us to separately estimate aggregate, sectoral, country-specific and regional components of price...
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This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation … efficiency in order to increase profitability. Among firms that have embarked in product innovation, those in the industry and … help to better understand the link between innovation, financial constraints and efficiency, which goes beyond the idea …
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We provide the first cross-country evidence of the effect of investment by private equity firms on innovation, focusing … funds and insurance companies across countries and over time. We also control for the standard determinants of innovation … aggregate (private equity plus R&D) industrial spending, PE accounts for as much as 12% of industrial innovation. We also …
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Using a comprehensive database of European firms, we study how private equity affects the rate of firm entry. We find that private equity investment benefits new business incorporation, especially in industries with naturally higher entry rates and R&D intensity. A two standard deviation...
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suggests that whilst micro reforms boost innovation, macro reforms may appear negative. We test and find empirical support for …
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We examine the extent to which environmental regulation affects innovation and which policy types provide the strongest … environmental technology innovation. At the firm-level, however, environmental policy tightening leads to higher innovation activity … in technologies mitigating climate change, while the effect on innovation in other technologies is muted. This suggests …
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This paper examines changes in the Greek wage distribution over 1995-2002 and the role of skills in these changes using a matched employer-employee data set. This data set enables us to account for firm heterogeneity and obtain a more refined picture of the impact of skills. The methodology...
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The study looks at primary expenditure developments in the euro area, its three largest members and four "macro-imbalances" countries for the period 1999-2009. It compares actual expenditure trends with those that would have prevailed if countries had followed neutral policies based on...
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