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industry and the firm level using an unbalanced panel of 10646 French firms in 38 manufacturing industries over the period 1978 … sharing parameters. Our industry-level results indicate that industry differences in these parameters are quite sizeable. To … dispersion show sizeable within-industry firm heterogeneity. Firm size, capital intensity, distance to the industry technology …
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-work allows for an assessment of both shocks to weakly exogenous variables and intra-industry spillovers. In this vein, beyond a …
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We study differences in the adjustment of aggregate real wages in the manufacturing sector over the business cycle across OECD countries, combining results from different data and dynamic methods. Summary measures of cyclicality show genuine cross-country heterogeneity even after controlling for...
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The paper analyses the impact of import penetration on firms' profitability in 15 manufacturing industries in 10 euro area countries during 1995-2004, focusing on the role of emerging market economies. Our results indicate that import competition from emerging market economies has had an overall...
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This paper provides a new cross-country evaluation of competitiveness, focusing on the linkages between productivity and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to establish new stylized facts regarding the joint distributions...
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, within each industry, but also their joint analysis with the productivity of the firm provides critical insights to both …
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price changes. Firms also appear to react significantly to changes in the producer price index of their industry. Variations …
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We study the relative effect of venture capital and bank finance on large manufacturing firms in local U.S. markets. Theory predicts that with venture capital, the firm size distribution should become more stretched-out to the right, but it’s ambiguous on the effect of banks on large firms....
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The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence...
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