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The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD …-countries over the period 1972-1992 show large inter-industry differences. One reason for these differences is knowledge and capital …
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We analyze output growth risk with respect to financial conditions across U.S. manufacturing industries. Using a multi … high capital or overhead labor intensity are less susceptible. …
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We analyze a publicly-traded firm's decision to stay public or go private when managerial autonomy from shareholder … shareholders trade easily and supply capital at a lower cost, the liquidity-engendered trading also results in stochastic shocks to … a firm's shareholder base. This exposes management to uncertainty regarding the identity of future shareholders and …
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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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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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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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With China's 2001 WTO accession, trade costs between the US and China fell sharply, but the transport costs of Chinese imports within the US remained sizable. We argue that domestic transport costs shield local labor markets from globalization. Using a shift-share design for industry-level...
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obtain higher success probabilities. Projects in which a firm has built a critical mass of disease knowledge (through at …
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This paper analyses the effect of risk attitudes of firm owners on profits among micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in … has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being male, and firm size are all positively related to profit, while young …
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This paper analyses the effect of uncertainty on investment spending. We analyse twotypes of investment, i.e. aggregate investment and investment in energy saving technologies,using subjective evaluations of expectations and uncertainty of Dutch firms in 1997. Weestimate several models...
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