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Innovation and Productivity in SMEs : Empirical Evidence for Italy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2008

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 … process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity, especially …

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The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States during the Early Twentieth Century

Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2009

The standard view of U.S. technological history is that the locus of invention shifted during the early twentieth century to large firms whose in-house research laboratories were superior sites for advancing the complex technologies of the second industrial revolution. In recent years this view...

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The Importance (or not) of Patents to UK Firms

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2013

innovative performance measured as turnover due to innovation, but not between patenting and subsequent employment growth. The …

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Private Equity and the Innovation Strategies of Entrepreneurial Firms : Empirical Evidence from the Small Business Innovation Research Program

Link, Albert N. - 2012

There is great interest in evaluating the impact of private equity investments on innovation and economic growth …. However, there is no direct empirical evidence on the effects of such transactions on the innovation strategies of … Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program research awards. We find that SBIR firms attracting private equity investments are …

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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar …

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Job Creation, Job Destruction, and the Real Exchange Rate

Klein, Michael W. - 2000

This paper contributes to an understanding of internationally generated adjustment costs by demonstrating a statistically significant and economically relevant effect of the real exchange rate on job creation and job destruction in U.S. manufacturing industries over the period 1973 to 1993. The...

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Understanding How Price Responds to Costs and Production

Bils, Mark - 1999

The importance of sticky prices in business cycle fluctuations has been debated for many years. But we argue, based on a large empirical literature from the 1950's and 60's, that it is necessary to distinguish the response of price to an increase in factor prices from its response to an increase...

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What Inventory Behavior Tells Us About Business Cycles

Bils, Mark - 1999

Manufacturers' finished goods inventories move less than shipments over the business cycle. We argue that this requires marginal cost to be more procyclical than is conventionally measured. We construct, for six manufacturing industries, alternative measures of marginal cost that attribute...

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Panel Data Estimates Of The Production Function And Product And Labor Market Imperfections

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2008

Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's framework for estimating price-cost margins. We show that both product and labor market imperfections...

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Trade Policy and Industrial Sector Responses : Using Evolutionary Models to Interpret the Evidence

Erdem, Erkan - 2003

Firm- and plant-level empirical studies typically find that trade liberalization squeezes price-cost margins among import-competing firms, that this heightened competitive pressure induces productivity gains among these same firms, and that further efficiency gains come from market share...

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