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Small Firms and R&D Spillovers: Evidence from Italy

Audretsch, David B; Vivarelli, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

more important for small-firm innovation than for their larger counterparts. …

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When local interaction does not suffice: Sources of firm innovation in urban Norway

Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The geographical sources of innovation of firms have been hotly debated. While the traditional view is that physical … survey of the level of innovation of 1604 firms of more than 10 employees located in the five largest Norwegian city … innovation and b) the factors behind the propensity to innovate in Norwegian firms. The results stress that while interaction …

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Small Scale Reservation Laws and the Misallocation of Talent

García-Santana, Manuel; Pijoan-Mas, Josep - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

In this paper we quantify the effects of the Small Scale Reservation Laws in India on the aggregate productivity, aggregate output and welfare of the Indian economy. To this end, we extend the span-of-control model by Lucas (1978) into a multi-sector setting and embed it into the neo-classical...

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Firm Size Distortions and the Productivity Distribution: Evidence from France

Garicano, Luis; Lelarge, Claire; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We show how size-contingent laws can be used to identify the equilibrium and welfare effects of labor regulation. Our framework incorporates such regulations into the Lucas (1978) model and applies this to France where many labor laws start to bind on firms with exactly 50 or more employees....

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Who Prices Locally? Survey Evidence of Swiss Exporters

Fischer, Andreas M; Lutz, Matthias; Wälti, Manuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Survey information on Swiss exporters is used to test the hypothesis that firm-specific factors, in particular firm size, are important determinants of pricing--to-market (PTM). The survey asked exporters whether they set different prices across markets and, if so, whether price segmentation...

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How Efficient are Firms in Transition Countries? Firm-Level Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania

Konings, Jozef; Repkin, Alexander - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Stochastic frontier production functions are estimated for Bulgarian (1993–5) and Romanian (1994–5) manufacturing industries using firm-level panel data. The technical efficiency of firms is found to vary significantly both within and across industrial sectors in each country. We find strong...

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Search, Concave Production, and Optimal Firm Size

Smith, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper presents a simple search and bargaining economy in which firms use concave production. Because a firm and worker negotiate over the worker's marginal productivity, the firm's wage is a function of its labour force. Reacting to this wage function, firms choose an excessively large and...

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Growth in a Dual Economy

Blomström, Magnus; Wolff, Edward N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

Growth and structural transformation of the manufacturing sector in developing countries are generally considered to be the result of the expansion of the `modern' (large-scale) sector relative to the `traditional' (small-scale) sector. Examining the sources of labour productivity growth in...

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Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive

Moscarini, Giuseppe; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create more of their new jobs late in expansions, both in gross and net terms. The differential growth rate...

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Sub-Optimal Scale Firms and Compensating Factor Differentials in Dutch Manufacturing

Audretsch, David B; Thurik, A R Roy; Van Leeuwen, Geroge - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The purpose of this paper is to shed some light on why so many smaller-scale firms which have traditionally been classified as sub-optimal scale firms can exist. We suggest that by pursuing a strategy of compensating factor differentials, that is by remunerating and deploying factors of...

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