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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction
Steier, Lloyd - 2013
, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …
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Financial Innovation and the Transactions Demand for Cash
Alvarez, Fernando - 2012
We document cash management patterns for households that are at odds with the predictions of deterministic inventory models that abstract from precautionary motives. We extend the Baumol-Tobin cash inventory model to a dynamic environment that allows for the possibility of withdrawing cash at...
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Innovation and Productivity in Smes : Empirical Evidence for Italy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2010
Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation success from firm surveys along with the usual Ramp;D...
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Intangible Capital and Productivity : An Exploration on a Panel of Italian Manufacturing Firms
Bontempi, Maria Elena - 2010
The paper examines the size and productivity of total intangible capital relative to total tangible capital for a large panel of Italian Manufacturing firms. In the analysis, we decompose total intangibles in two different ways: in intangibles expensed in firms' current accounts (as usually...
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Wage Mobility and Dynamics in Italy in the 90's
Contini, Bruno - 2010
Inspite of the centralized nature of wage bargaining in Italy, we find some evidence suggesting the existence of firm …-wage policies. Firstly, the ratio of the between-firm wage variability relative to total wage variability is sizeable, and not very … degree of wage compression in Italy could be associated with higher entry and exit rates …
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College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree : Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities
Garibaldi, Pietro - 2010
University in Italy, this paper shows that an increase of 1,000 euro in the continuation tuition reduces the probability of late …
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The Cost of Banking Regulation
Guiso, Luigi - 2010
We use exogenous variation in the degree of restrictions to bank competition across Italian provinces to study both the effects of bank regulation and the impact of deregulation. We find that where entry was more restricted the cost of credit was higher and - contrary to expectations- access to...
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Political Risk Versus Market Risk in Social Security
Shoven, John B. - 2010
Pay-as-you-go Social Security is typically characterized as a universal defined benefit pension program. Implicit in this characterization is a sense that the participant%u2019s investment in future benefits is somehow guaranteed, or safe from risk. This study develops the concept of...
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Productivity and Machinery Investment : A Long Run Look 1870-1980
DeLong, J. Bradford - 2010
Over the past century the long-run growth of six economies shows a strong association between investment in machinery and economic growth that holds both within and across nations and periods. A similar strong association holds for the post-world War II period for a broader cross section of...
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The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development
Guiso, Luigi - 2010
capital and trust (Banfield (1958), Putnam (1993)) across different parts of Italy, using microeconomic data on households and …
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