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Parameterized Complexity
, 1998
"... the rapidly developing systematic connections between FPT and useful heuristic algorithms | a new and exciting bridge between the theory of computing and computing in practice. The organizers of the seminar strongly believe that knowledge of parameterized complexity techniques and results belongs ..."
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on parameterized complexity, and it hopefully serves as a driving force in the development of the eld. 1 We had 49 participants from Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, USA, and various European countries. During the workshop 25 lectures were given. Moreover, one night session was devoted to open
Why Do Americans Work So Much More than Europeans?”, Quarterly Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis,
, 2004
"... Abstract Americans now work 50 percent more than do the Germans, French, and Italians. This was not the case in the early 1970s, when the Western Europeans worked more than Americans. This article examines the role of taxes in accounting for the differences in labor supply across time and across co ..."
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Abstract Americans now work 50 percent more than do the Germans, French, and Italians. This was not the case in the early 1970s, when the Western Europeans worked more than Americans. This article examines the role of taxes in accounting for the differences in labor supply across time and across
Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth
- IN HANDBOOK OF ECONOMIC GROWTH, ED. PHILIPPE AGHION AND STEPHEN DURLAUF
, 2005
"... This paper develops the empirical and theoretical case that differences in economic institutions are the fundamental cause of differences in economic development. We first document the empirical importance of institutions by focusing on two “quasi-natural experiments” in history, the division of K ..."
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of Korea into two parts with very different economic institutions and the colonization of much of the world by European powers starting in the fifteenth century. We then develop the basic outline of a framework for thinking about why economic institutions differ across countries. Economic institutions
Reversal of fortune: geography and institutions in the making of modern world income,Quarterly
- Journal of Economics,
, 2002
"... Among countries colonized by European powers during the past 500 years, those that were relatively rich in 1500 are now relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for economic prosperity. This reversal weighs against ..."
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Among countries colonized by European powers during the past 500 years, those that were relatively rich in 1500 are now relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for economic prosperity. This reversal weighs
Why Do Companies Go Public? - An Empirical Analysis
- Journal of Finance
, 1997
"... This paper analyzes the determinants of initial public offerings (IPOs) in Italy. We compare the ex ante and the ex post characteristics of IPOs with those of a large sample of privately held companies. The likelihood of an IPO is positively related to the company's size and the industry's ..."
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some important differences between the role played by the equity market in Italy (and likely in other Continental European countries) and in the United States. This paper is part of the research project on "The decision to go public and the stock market as a source of capital," promoted
Inequality and happiness: are Europeans and Americans different?
, 2004
"... We study the effect of the level of inequality in society on individual well-being using a total of 123,668 answers to a survey question about ‘‘happiness’’. We find that individuals have a lower tendency to report themselves happy when inequality is high, even after controlling for individual incom ..."
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income, a large set of personal characteristics, and year and country (or, in the case of the US, state) dummies. The effect, however, is more precisely defined statistically in Europe than in the US. In addition, we find striking differences across groups. In Europe, the poor and those on the left
Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries
- CEP Discussion Paper No 716. Centre for Economic Performance London School of Economics and Political Science
, 2006
"... Centre for Economic Performance and the LSE We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the US and Europe (France, Germany and the UK). Our measures of managerial best practice are strongly associated with superior firm performanc ..."
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performance in terms of productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival. We also find significant intercountry variation with US firms on average better managed than European firms, but a much greater intra-country variation with a long tail of extremely badly managed firms. This presents a
From World Banker to World Venture Capitalist
- US External Adjustment and the Exorbitant Privilege
, 2005
"... Does the center country of the International Monetary System enjoy an “exorbitant privilege ” that significantly weakens its external constraint as has been asserted in some European quarters? Using a newly constructed dataset, we perform a detailed analysis of the historical evolution of US externa ..."
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Does the center country of the International Monetary System enjoy an “exorbitant privilege ” that significantly weakens its external constraint as has been asserted in some European quarters? Using a newly constructed dataset, we perform a detailed analysis of the historical evolution of US
Decentralization of Governance and Development
- Journal of Economic Perspectives
, 2002
"... A ll around the world in matters of governance, decentralization is the rage.Even apart from the widely debated issues of subsidiarity and devolution inthe European Union and states ’ rights in the United States, decentraliza-tion has been at the center stage of policy experiments in the last two de ..."
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A ll around the world in matters of governance, decentralization is the rage.Even apart from the widely debated issues of subsidiarity and devolution inthe European Union and states ’ rights in the United States, decentraliza-tion has been at the center stage of policy experiments in the last two
The Generalized Dynamic Factor Model: Identification and Estimation
- Review of Economics and Statistics
, 2000
"... This paper proposes a factor model with infinite dynamics and non-orthogonal idiosyncratic components. The model, which we call the generalized dynamic factor model, isnovel to the literature, and generalizes the static approximate factor model of Chamberlain and Rothschild (1983), as well as the ex ..."
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for the European Union. Such index is defined as the common component of real GDP within a model including several macroeconomic variables for each European country.
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