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Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence
Schiantarelli, Fabio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output … growth. A summary of what we learn from the econometric results concludes the paper. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822371
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Survival, Growth, and Interfirm Collaboration of Start-Up Companies in High-Technology Industries: A Case Study of Upper Bavaria
Hampe, Johannes; Steininger, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
the time of foundation and the legal form of the limited company reduce the risk of exit. The growth of employment in … sectors with a greater proportion of cooperating firms have a greater growth rate. The innovation activities however do hardly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703089
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Entrepreneurship and the Process of Firms’ Entry, Survival and Growth
Santarelli, Enrico; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This survey paper aims at critically discussing the recent literature on firm formation and survival and the growth of …", policy incentives should be highly selective, favouring nascent entrepreneurs endowed with progressive motivation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703552
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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure
Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
behind each firm’s decision to weaken its investment in traditional continuous improvement activities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822187
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Informality as a Stepping Stone: Entrepreneurial Entry in a Developing Economy
Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We model decisions with respect to formality or informality for entrepreneurs in a new industry for a developing economy. We show that informality allows a leader to explore, without significant sunk costs, the potential profitability of the industry; that is, informality may be a stepping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763577
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Necessity Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy
Block, Jörn; Kohn, Karsten; Miller, Danny; Ullrich, Katrin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Many start-ups chose to compete with incumbent firms using one of two generic strategies: cost leadership or differentiation. Our study demonstrates how this choice depends on whether the startup was founded out of necessity. Our results, based on a representative data set of 4,568 German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010779437
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Media Slant Against Foreign Owners: Downsizing
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation-wide distributed quality newspapers in Germany, we find that a foreign firm that downsizes in Germany receives almost twice as much attention than a domestic firm. This quantitative slant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096063
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Field Experiments in Strategy Research
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Findley, Michael; Jensen, Nathan M.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Strategy research often aims to empirically establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable such as firm performance. For many important strategy research questions, however, traditional empirical techniques are not sufficient to establish causal effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105062
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Limited Attention as the Scarce Resource in an Information-Rich Economy
Falkinger, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
policy interventions are characterized. Finally, behavioral effects of intensified attention-seeking on market power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761803
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Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?
Foster, Lucia; Haltiwanger, John; Syverson, Chad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the … selection and productivity growth using data from industries where we observe producer-level quantities and prices separately … producers and the contribution of entry to aggregate productivity growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761929