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Does Innovation Help the Good or the Poor Performing Firms?

Damijan, Joze P.; Kostevc, Crt; Rojec, Matija - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2009

Using firm-level innovation data for a large sample of Slovenian firms in the period 1996-2002, the paper finds … surprising results that innovation is not benefitting all firms. We find that only manufacturing firms with below average … productivity growth (the lowest four deciles) are likely to experience significant benefits from successful innovation, while …

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Innovation and Firms' Productivity Growth in Slovenia: Sensitivity of Results to Sectoral Heterogeneity and to Estimation Method

Damijan, Joze P.; Kostevc, Crt; Rojec, Matija - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2008

The paper examines implications of endogenous growth theory on the relationship between firm productivity, innovation … as well as productivity growth by combining information on firm-level innovation (CIS) with accounting data for a large … endogeneity of innovation (Crä¿»on-Duguet- Mairesse - CDM - approach) and idiosyncratic firm characteristics (matching and average …

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Land Rental Markets and Household Farms in Transition: Theory and Evidence from Hungary

Swinnen, Johan; Vranken, Liesbet - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2003

This paper analyses the determinants of household farms?participation in land rental markets in transition countries and what affects their access to land through rental markets. We derive several theoretical hypotheses on the impact of households?management ability, land endowment, land quality...

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Trade liberalization and economic geography in transition countries: Can FDI explain the adjustment patterns of regional wages?

Damijan, Joze P.; Kostevc, Crt - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2008

Present paper studies the within-country regional effects of trade liberalization in transition countries. We argue that FDI inflows can be an important factor to accelerate the regional adjustment process in the home country. In order to underspin this theoretically, we first augment the new...

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Labour mobility during transition: evidence from Georgia

Sabine Bernab?; Stampini, Marco - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2008

This paper deals with labour mobility in Georgia during economic transition. We use quarterly 1998-99 panel data to examine mobility across six labour market statuses (inactivity, unemployment, formal wage employment, informal wage employment, selfemployment and farming). Our findings are...

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The Effect of Ownership and Competitive Pressure on Firm Performance in Transition Countries. Micro Evidence from Bulgaria, Romania and Poland

Estrin, Saul; Konings, Jozef; Zolkiewski, Zbigniew; … - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2001

This paper uses a unique representative firm level data set to analyse the effect of domestic and international competitive pressure and ownership changes in three emerging economies, Bulgaria Poland and Romania. Our main findings can be summarized as follows: Domestic competitive pressure,...

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Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects

Konings, Jozef; Lehmann, Hartmut; Kupets, Olga - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2002

This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique data set of more than 2200 Ukrainian firms operating in both the manufacturing and the non-manufacturing sector for the years 1998-2000. There are several important findings in the paper. Job...

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European Trade and Foreign Direct Investment. U-Shaping Industrial Output in Central and Eastern Europe: Theory and Evidence

Rekine, Alexandre; Walsh, Patrick Paul - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 1998

Schumpeterian (vertical) waves of product innovation. We estimate the growth dynamics of non-EU oriented output within sectors as …

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Comparing the Impact of Credit Constraints on the Growth of SMEs in a Transition Country with an Established Market Economy

Hutchinson, John; Xavier, Ana - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2004

In this paper we compare the role of internal finance on the growth of firms between a leading transition country, Slovenia and an established market economy, Belgium. We find that firms in Slovenia are more sensitive to internal financing constraints than their Belgian counterparts. This would...

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Firm Growth and Survival in a Transition Country: Micro Evidence from Slovenia

Konings, Jozef; Xavier, Ana - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2002

a function of several factors including initial firm size, ownership, firm innovation, trade orientation, capital …

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