This paper examines the effect of a new technology on a labour-intensive service. Comparing primal and dual TFP-growth with final-year social savings, we find that, between 1900 and 1938, motion pictures increased entertainment output (measured in spectator-hours) by at least nine percent...

This paper examines patterns of structural change and labour productivity growth in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire. Using shift-share analysis and a set of basic measures to account for the contribution of physical and human capital growth, it seeks to address three questions:...

This research is the outcome of fieldwork undertaken between November 2002 and 2003 inAl Gharaza village part of Khartoum State - the Sudan capital.The study focuses on identifying how spaces and times are interrelated and engendered. Theforces that impact the creation of boundaries or those...

Ursprünglich sollte diese Studie eine vorwiegend empirische Bestandsaufnahme des soziokulturellen Strukturwandels und des touristisch induzierten Wandels auf der Mikroebene der Insel S.te Marie vermitteln - eine weitreichende Sichtung der theoretischen Forschung hat jedoch die Bedeutung einer...

It is the objective of this paper to determine the voting premium for French shares by comparing the values of voting and non-voting shares, and to analyze the value of the voting rights. The study uses data for 25 French companies which had both types of shares outstanding and traded on the...

Die Vorstellung, durch eine Orientierung am immateriellen Kundennutzen statt am materiellen Produkt zu einer nachhaltigen Wirtschaftsweise beitragen zu können, wird offenbar von vielen geteilt zumindest aber von zahlreichen Wissenschaftlern untersucht.

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival forenterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that mergeinformation from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative datacollected by the Tax Authorities and from...

Using a unique bank-level dataset on the Ugandan banking system over theperiod 1999 to 2005, we explore the factors behind consistently high interest rate spreadsand margins. While foreign banks charge lower interest rate spreads, we do not find arobust and economically significant relationship...