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We live in a service economy, but the extent of development of service employment differs across developed countries. This paper assesses the role of structural factors and institutions in explaining the common patterns and main differences in the recent expansion of service employment in OECD...
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This independent report – with the wealth and breadth of knowledge it puts forward and the quality of the analysis it presents – gives us a research-based perspective on the post-2015 challenges we face.
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We estimate the effect of demand and price uncertainty on firms’ investment decisions from a panel of manufacturing firms. Uncertainty measures are derived from firms’ subjective qualitative expectations. They are close to their theoretical counterparts, the variances of future demand and...
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Capital quality improvement is a general phenomenon. Therefore quality correction is needed in price indexes. There is substantial evidence of biases in the official price indexes of capital equipment. We apply to euro area statistics estimates of these biases based on US data thus deriving...
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We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … relationship. We model the inter-temporal relationships among efficiency, capital and risk for a large sample of commercial banks … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements …
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frontier, TFP being the composite effect of efficiency scores and possibility frontier changes. We consider, for the periods … private physical capital per worker. We use a semiparametric analysis, computing Malmquist productivity indexes, and we also …
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common support services, mainly at Commission's level; - further functional areas suitable for shared services, such as those … services for EU Agencies. …
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rapid technological change, globalization and fighting climate change. The present study aims to identify the most promising …
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