We construct company panel datasets for manufacturing firms in Belgium , France, Germany and the UK, covering the period 1978-89. These datasets are used to estimate emprirical investment equations, and to investigate the role played by financial factors in each country.

We review the changes in modelling strategy and econometric methodology when estimating a firm-level investment equation on panel data during the past twenty years, in order to assess which of these changes result from new estimation methods and changes in the practice of panel data...

This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the very long (since 1890) and medium (since 1980) runs. During the past century, the United States has overtaken the United Kingdom and become the leading world economy....

The paper focuses on the influence of upstream competition for productivity outcomes in downstream sectors. This relation is illustrated with a neo-Schumpeterian theoretical model of innovation (Aghion et al., 1997) with market imperfections in the production of intermediate goods. In this...

[fre] L'équipe « Marchés du travail et structures de salaires » du laboratoire d'Économie et, de Sociologie du Travail d'Aix-en-Provence. et l'Unité de Recherche de l'INSEE ont organisé au printemps dernier un colloque sur des recherches en économie du travail. Les » six communications...