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Experience, innovation and productivity : empirical evidence from Italy's slowdown

Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - 2010

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

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Competition in the service sector and the performances of manufacturing firms : does liberalization matter?

Forlani, Emanuele - 2010

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms' efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in...

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Firm performance and trade with low-income countries : evidence from China

Schmerer, Hans-Jörg; Wang, Luhang - 2014

Do firms in developing countries shift trade towards developed economies as a result of high economic growth? The matched customs-manufacturing firm data used in this study confront this hypothesized link with empirical evidence. Our analysis reveals a rising low-income country trade share...

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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position

Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020

Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...

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All-around trade liberalization and firm-level employment : theory and evidence from China

Rodríguez López, Antonio; Yu, Miaojie - 2017

Chinese firms faced an all-around trade liberalization process during the early 2000s: lower barriers from other countries on Chinese goods, and lower Chinese barriers on other countries' goods and inputs. Using novel firm-level tariff data for trading Chinese manufacturing firms, this paper...

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Long-lasting bank relationships and growth of firms

Gambini, Alessandro; Zazzaro, Alberto - 2010

A puzzling but consistent result in the empirical literature on banking is that firms with close bank ties do not grow faster than bank-independent firms. In this paper, we reconsider the link between relationship lending and firms' growth, distinguishing firms by size and "health". The idea is...

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Determinants of survival of newly created SMEs in the Brazilian manufacturing : an econometric study

Façanha, Luis Otávio; Resende, Marcelo; Cardoso, Vicente - 2012

The paper investigates the survival of newly created small and medium enterprises in Brazilian manufacturing taking as reference the 1996-2005 period. The econometric analysis relies on time-varying version of the proportional hazard rate model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity. The...

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Institutions, financial development, and small business survival : evidence from European emerging markets

Iwasaki, Ichirō; Kočenda, Evžen; Shida, Yoshisada - 2020

In this paper, we traced the survival status of 94,401 small businesses in 17 European emerging markets from 2007–2017 and empirically examined the determinants of their survival, focusing on institutional quality and financial development. We found that institutional quality and the level of...

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Gender, access to finance, occupational choice, and business performance

Gazanchyan, Nelli S.; Hashimzade, Nigar; Rodionova, Yulia; … - 2017

We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of the links between the gender of an entrepreneur, access to finance, occupational choice, and business performance. Our theoretical model predicts that, when lenders discriminate against women entrepreneurs, the average entrepreneurial skill of...

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European SMEs and resource efficiency measures : firm characteristics and contextual factors

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Donati, Cristiana; Spagnolo, … - 2023

This paper investigates how access to finance and skilled workforce endowments affect the propensity of European small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt different types of resource efficiency measures (REMs), possibly simultaneously. For this purpose, a Multinomial Logit model is...

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