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market to market which is consistent with that low productive firms are confined to markets with low productivity thresholds …. We further show that selection also applies to number of products traded. Both export and import productivity premiums …
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Iceland is one of the smallest European economies and the country was hit severely by the 2008-financial crisis. This paper considers the economy in the period preceding the collapse. Applying a Data Envelopment Analysis on 204 randomly selected firms, the results suggest that a substantial...
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This study examines how firms’ internal and external knowledge sources affect the introduction of new export products with regard to value, number, average unit price and average quantity. Previous studies of this kind suggest that firms’ export performance is influenced by internal...
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In this paper we analyze how firms’ knowledge absorption capacity – given the knowledge environment – affects the development, adoption and introduction of new export products among Swedish manufacturing firms. Our model formulation builds on theoretical arguments which imply that firms...
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investments, externalities and key actors in national innovation systems and productivity. This study explores whether foreign … knowledge technological knowledge spillover does not manifest itself in superior innovation output or productivity performance … that is subsequently exploited in affiliates abroad. Correspondingly, the innovation and productivity performance in …
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investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now … controlled for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong … government report higher productivity premia.However, the level of development per se does not appear to be an explanation for …
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outperformed by domestic multinationals in R&D and innovation engagement. Finally, the results on labor productivity are at … neutral with respect to labor productivity, and hence the issue of welfare gain and welfare drain is turned into a non-issue. …
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neutral with respect to labour productivity, and hence that no evidence of welfare gain or welfare drain of foreign ownership …
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performance from R&D and innovation. A comparison is made between the innovation and productivity of foreign owned enterprises, of … productivity. …
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This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing … evidence that the reported weak rate of productivity growth in knowledge intensive services can be explained by a low …
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