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We study the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on productivity by matching firm performance outcomes with corresponding firm-level information on government support. Our cross-country evidence for five EU countries shows that the pandemic led to a significant short-term decline in...
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SMEs) are supposed to suffer most. In general, the downturn is supposed to accelerate the shift of EU manufacturing towards … by higher R&Dintensity this in turn may have a positive impact on R&D investment figures. But, as structural changes … inbetween. However, across the sources, the corridor for the R&D investment change is assumed to be above the corresponding …
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This study investigates how corporate R&D evolves in the light of the contemporary economic crisis. We study empirical evidence from past downturns, discuss the relevant literature, and perform an empirical analysis of recent business survey data (collected during 2009). Pivotal for our...
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A strong innovation performance based on R&D, product development and the implementation of advanced production technologies is key for the long-term competitiveness of European economies. This study investigates the effects of production offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm...
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This paper revisits the impact of population aging on economic growth. In order to understand the impact of population aging on economic growth, it is important to consider the changes in the entire age distribution of demography. Our empirical analysis indicates that a change in age...
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Italian Abstract: Nell’ultimo biennio, gli investimenti sostenibili hanno conosciuto una crescita significativa, a fronte di un andamento altalenante dei principali benchmark azionari. A livello globale e nell’ambito dell’area euro, gli indici che includono le società ritenute più...
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This paper documents the downward trend in the labor share of global income since the early 1990s, as well as its heterogeneous evolution across countries, industries and worker skill groups, using a newly assembled dataset, and analyzes the drivers behind it. Technological progress, along with...
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(OTE). Meanwhile Pure Technical Efficiency (PTE) is influenced by profitability, bank size, and capitalization. In addition … influenced by profitability, credit risk, and liquidity, whilst Scale Efficiency (SE) is influenced by bank's capitalization and …
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This paper studies how the Covid-19 pandemic and the extensive job retention support that accompanied it affected productivity in Europe. The focus is on the reallocation channel and productivity-enhancing reallocation of jobs, following Foster et al., 2016. An extensive micro-distributed...
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