We examine the impact of bank competition and institutional factors on net firm entry in a sample of European … manufacturing industries over the 1995-2006 period. Taking into account industry differences in the need for external finance, we … find that bank competition helps firm entry. In addition, better institutions - especially legal structure and property …

We examine the impact of bank competition and institutional factors on net firm entry in a sample of European … manufacturing industries over the 1995-2006 period. Taking into account industry differences in the need for external finance, we … find that bank competition helps firm entry. In addition, better institutions - especially legal structure and property …

This paper analyzes research efficiency at the industry level in manufacturing for 13 European member and four … highest efficiency scores on average in total manufacturing. The main industries that are at the technology frontier are those …

This paper addresses the relationship between the utilization of temporary agency workers by firms and their … competitiveness measured by unit labor costs, using a rich, newly built, data set of German manufacturing enterprises. The analysis is … dynamic panel data models allows us to control for firm specific fixed effects as well as for potential endogeneity of …

This paper investigates to what extent the R&D behavior of manufacturing companies was influenced by the 2008/09 crisis …. Based on a broad official data set for German manufacturing companies, only a few companies that engaged in R&D during 2008 …

Irish manufacturing industries. Our results show that the presence of multinationals has a life enhancing effect only on …