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Sources of Firm Life-Cycle Dynamics: Differentiating Size vs. Age Effects
Kueng, Lorenz; Yang, Mu-Jeung; Hong, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
What determines firm growth over the life-cycle? Exploiting unique firm panel data on internal organization, balance sheets and innovation, representative of the entire Canadian economy, we study recent theories that examine life-cycle patterns for firm growth. These theories include...
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Business Strategy and the Management of Firms
Yang, Mu-Jeung; Kueng, Lorenz; Hong, Bryan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Business strategy can be defined as a firm's plan to generate economic profits based on lower cost, better quality, or new products. The analysis of business strategy is thus at the intersection of market competition and a firm's efforts to secure persistently superior performance via...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123643
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Property rights, optimal public enforcement, and growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2011
We study the link between public enforcement of property rights, innovation investments, and economic growth in an endogenous growth framework with an expanding set of product varieties. We find that a government may assure positive equilibrium growth through public employment in the enforcement...
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Import Competition, Heterogeneous Preferences of Managers, and Productivity
Chen, Cheng; Steinwender, Claudia - 2019
may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has … competition shocks. We find that import competition leads to productivity increases in family-managed firms that are initially … unproductive. Productivity improvements are driven by family management as opposed to family ownership or non-managing family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179827
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Import Competition, Heterogeneous Preferences of Managers, and Productivity
Chen, Cheng - 2020
may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has … competition shocks. We find that import competition leads to productivity increases in family-managed firms that are initially … unproductive. Productivity improvements are driven by family management as opposed to family ownership or non-managing family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843433
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Public R&D Support and Firms' Performance - A Panel Data Study
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Iancu, Diana-Cristina - 2018
return to total assets or productivity for firms who received support compared with the control group. …
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Decentralized Environmental Regulations and Plant-Level Productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to …
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Foreign Ownership and Skillbiased Technological Change
Koch, Michael; Smolka, Marcel - 2018
upgrading in foreign-acquired firms. We reveal substantial productivity gains within foreign-acquired firms and we show that …
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Unraveling Firms: Demand, Productivity and Markups Heterogeneity
Forlani, Emanuele; Martin, Ralf; Mion, Giordano; Muls, … - 2016
that are implicit in previous firm-level productivity estimation approaches. We use Belgian firms production data to …
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The Quantification of Structural Reforms: Taking Stock of the Results for OECD and Non-OECD Countries
Egert, Balazs - 2020
-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for an almost complete set of OECD countries, ii.) non-linear results on how …
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