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Levels of Farm Sector Productivity: An International Comparison.
Ball, V. Eldon; Bureau, Jean-Christophe; Butault, … - 2001
This articlefocuses on the relative levels of farm sector productivity forthe United States and nine European countries … for the period1973 to 1993. At the beginning of the period, Belgium had thehighest level of productivity relative to the … United States at1.689. Ireland had the lowest relative productivity at 0.759.By 1993, the range of levels of productivity had …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429491
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Essays on investment and adverse selection
Cooper, Russell W. (contributor); Corbae, Dean (contributor) - 2009
Relative used capital price, the measure of irreversibility, is fixed in almost all the investment literature. This dissertation introduces investment models with state-dependent irreversibility and tests whether these models outperform fixed irreversibility cases, at both the macro and micro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429289
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Wirkung föderaler Strukturen in der staatlichen Innovationsförderung ; Effects of federal structures on public innovation support
Becker, Lasse - 2015
Community Innovation Survey für die Untersuchung in Europa. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die drei verschiedenen Ebenen der …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324351
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The safety and soundness effects of bank M&As in the EU : does prudential regulation have any impact?
Hagendorff, Jens; Nieto Carol, María Jesús; Wall, Larry D. - 2012
This paper studies the impact of European bank mergers and acquisitions on changes in key safety and soundness measures of both acquirers and targets. We find that capitalization, profitability and liquidity show signs of statistically and economically signifi cant mean reversion for acquirers....
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The drivers of European banks’ US dollar debt issuance : opportunistic funding in times of crisis?
Romo González, Luna - 2016
En este estudio investigamos los determinantes de las emisiones denominadas en dólares de deuda a largo plazo por parte de la banca europea. Para ello empleamos una base de datos que permite explorar los factores que, según la literatura, explican las emisiones en moneda extranjera. Incluimos...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530514
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The determinants of long-term debt issuance by European banks : evidence of two crises
Rixtel, Adrian van; Romo González, Luna; Yang, Jing - 2016
Este documento es uno de los primeros en investigar los determinantes en la emisión de bonos por parte de las entidades bancarias europeas. Utilizamos una base de datos única de en torno a 50.000 bonos emitidos por 63 bancos de 14 países europeos para comprobar explícitamente una serie de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530522
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Childcare constraints on immigrant integration
Guirola Abenza, Luis M.; Sánchez-Domínguez, María
creciente proporción de madres inmigrantes en Europa es menos conocido. Este artículo se pregunta cómo afecta la carga del … entre las madres inmigrantes no comunitarias y las nativas en el norte y el sur de Europa es de 35 y 17 puntos porcentuales …
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A Structural Analysis of the European Monetary Union and its Effect on Greece in Light of the European Financial Crisis
Ramos, Stephanie C - 2011
The intent of this paper is to analyze the structural composition of the European Monetary Union and its implications for the European Financial Crisis, specifically with respect to Greece. This analysis will be driven by a trend analysis of several economic variables from 1999-2010. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468765
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Essays on the contribution of public infrastructure to private production and its political economy
Stephan, Andreas - 2001
between infrastructure and private productivity. The second subject is the determinants of regional infrastructure investment … infrastructure to private production; the essays three to five study besides the productivity effects also the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467016
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International trade and labour markets
Braun, Sebastian Till - 2010
rigid-wage Europe and a flexible-wage America. Firms can choose to serve the foreign market either through exports or … rigidity. The third essay analyses how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm performance in a … among heterogeneous producers and increases average productivity and profit levels, firm-level bargaining allows less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467258