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Sustainable productivity growth and quality of working life : hearings of 12 and 9 september 2008

Europäischer Wirtschafts- und Sozialausschuss - 2009

On 12 June and 9 September 2008 the EESC Labour Market Observatory organised two hearings on "Sustainable Productivity …

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Industry linkages and transmission shocks in Germany

Marcusson, Mats - 2010

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Firms' investment decisions in response to demand and price uncertainty

Fuss, Catherine; Vermeulen, Philip - 2004

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 … investment, while price uncertainty is insignificant. This is consistent with the behavior of monopolistic firms with …

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Capital quality improvement and the sources of growth in the euro area

Sakellaris, Plutarchos; Vijselaar, Focco W. - 2004

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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Efficiency and risk in european banking

Fiordelisi, Franco; Marques-Ibanez, David; Molyneux, Phil - 2010

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 operating in the European Union. We find that reductions...

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Public and private inputs in aggregate production and growth

Afonso, António; Aubyn, Miguel St. - 2010

private physical capital per worker. We use a semiparametric analysis, computing Malmquist productivity indexes, and we also …

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Study on the responsible management of the supply chain in the garment sector

Slob, Bart (contributor); Ganguli, Rupa (contributor) - AETS - 2016

The objective of this study is to contribute to an ongoing background analysis, building on work already carried out within and outside of the European Commission with respect to engagement in the garment sector to support sustainability in the garment industry. The analysis will essentially...

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Does finance bolster superstar companies?

Popov, Alexander - 2009

We study the relative effect of venture capital and bank finance on large manufacturing firms in local U.S. markets …’s ambiguous on the effect of banks on large firms. The empirical evidence suggests that while the average size of firms in the top …

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Regulatory effects of the amendment to the HwO in 2004 in German craftsmanship

Rostam-Afschar, Davud

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2016 Annual Activity Report

Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion … - 2017

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