No, You Wouldn’t Want to Not Read this Paper: a working paper on a typology of negation across the romance languages

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This paper analyses growth for a sample of 624 firms located in three English counties. Using 52 variables, heteroskedasticity adjusted OLS is used to estimate their role in generating growth in new firms for the period 2000 to 2001 and for 1997 to 2001. Summary statistics show constrained founders own slightly more businesses; make greater use of external finance and are equally like to surviv...

Working Paper No. 249

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Alternative broadband infrastructures are emerging and developing very fast. Different technologies and organization/business models have been used to establish these networks. The aim of the paper is to understand and identify the technological, economic and political/regulatory drivers and barriers of this development, including the role of government in this process. The paper has a pure emp...

Working Paper No. 129

JEL classification E52 This paper examines the credibility of the Federal Reserve's monetary targets using survey data on money growth forecasts to measure market expectations. The paper provides two main results. First, there is strong evidence that the monetary targets were credible over the 1978 to 1993 sample period, although credibility fell in the post-1985 period. Second, both the federa...

Working Paper No. 300

Most studies have looked at the distribution of well-being or its change over time in terms of income. However, family wealth is also an indicator of well-being, independent of the direct financial income it provides. There are four reasons. First, owner-occupied housing provides services directly to their owner. Second, wealth is a source of consumption, independent of the direct money income ...