This paper examines the relationship between the characteristics of firm knowledge in terms of capital, diversity and relatedness, and productivity. Panel data regression models suggest that unlike knowledge diversity, knowledge capital and knowledge relatedness explain a substantial share of...

Few things have been said about the nature of the aftermath of the "new economy" bust. This paper aims to add to the debate. Our study focuses on five OECD countries: the United States, Ireland and Finland for their obvious status of leader ICT countries; the Netherlands for their similarities...

This paper looks at French couples’ labour market behaviour over the last thirteen years, from 1990 to 2002. We find that the proportion of dual earners couples has been steadily rising over time. Joint activity rates have gone up from 52% in 1990 to over 58% in 2002. About a fifth of women in...

The last ten years have witnessed an increasing interest of the econometrics community in spectral theory. In fact, decomposing the series evolution in periodic contributions allows a more insightful view of its structure and on its cyclical behavior at different time scales. In this paper I...