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The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD …
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We analyze output growth risk with respect to financial conditions across U.S. manufacturing industries. Using a multi …
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are independent of firm size can be rejected for the services, as it has been for manufacturing, also in the case of Italy … Gibrat's Law does not hold, i.e., the main finding is that firm growth decreases with firm size. However, almost all of these … studies have been based on manufacturing. In this paper - in search of further evidence supporting the results recently …
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indication of the importance of barriers to firm growth as opposed to barriers to entry. Transition economies show an even more …
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exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity across 10 manufacturing sectors and 14 OECD countries for the period 1970 …-1997. We explicitly aim to trace back aggregate developments in the manufacturing sector to developments at the level of … considerably to aggregate manufacturing energy-productivity growth and, hence, to decoupling, while in other countries they partly …
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This paper argues that the conventional definition of the elasticity of complementarity is not well suited to deal with the case of increasing returns. It proposes a slightly different formula, that uses a distance function formulation instead of a production function. The proposed definition...
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Taiwan manufacturing firms, and analyses whether the relationships between industrial agglomeration and total expenditure on … internet usage for industries are substitutes or complements. The sample observations are based on 153,081 manufacturing plants …
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This paper investigates the effect of industrial penetration and internet intensity for Taiwan manufacturing firms, and … analyses whether the relationships are substitutes or complements. The sample observations are based on 153,081 manufacturing …
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Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological issues. Nevertheless, the existence of considerable dispersion now is well documented and widely accepted. Less well understood are the economic features and mechanisms...
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This paper documents that a process of industrial restructuring has been transforming the developed economies, where large corporations are accounting for less economic activity and small firms are accounting for a greatershare of economic activity. Not all countries, however, are experiencing...
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