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Business groups as hierarchies of firms: determinants of vertical integration and performance
Altomonte, Carlo; Rungi, Armando - 2013
complexity and productivity which dominates the already known correlation between vertical integration and productivity. Results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605599
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Mapping global value chains
De Backer, Koen; Miroudot, Sébastien - 2014
World trade and production are increasingly structured around “global value chains” (GVCs). The last years have witnessed a growing number of case studies describing at the product level how production is internationally fragmented, but there is little evidence at the aggregate level on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605722
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Business Groups as Hierarchies of Firms : Determinants of Vertical Integration and Performance
Altomonte, Carlo - 2013
complexity and productivity which dominates the already known correlation between vertical integration and productivity. Results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081466
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Mapping Global Value Chains
de Backer, Koen - 2014
World trade and production are increasingly structured around “global value chains” (GVCs). The last years have witnessed a growing number of case studies describing at the product level how production is internationally fragmented, but there is little evidence at the aggregate level on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054086
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Foreign direct investment and environmental taxes
De Santis, Roberto A.; Stähler, Frank - 2008
This paper studies the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on environmental policy stringency in a two-country model with trade costs, where FDI could be unilateral and bilateral and both governments address local pollution through environmental taxes. We show that FDI does not give rise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604967
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The public sector pay gap in a selection of Euro area countries
Giordano, Raffaela; Depalo, Domenico; Coutinho Pereira, … - 2011
We investigate the public-private wage differentials in ten euro area countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain). To account for differences in employment characteristics between the two sectors, we focus on micro data taken from EU-SILC....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605451
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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2007
determine the degree of true firm-level heterogeneity, we adopt the Swamy (1970) methodology. The Swamy robust estimates of true … dispersion show sizeable within-industry firm heterogeneity. Firm size, capital intensity, distance to the industry technology … frontier and investing in Ramp;D seem to account for part of this heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776545
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Is there a single frontier in a single European banking market?
Bos, Jaap W. B.; Schmiedel, Heiko - 2006
This paper attempts to estimate comparable efficiency scores for European banks operating in the Single Market in the EU. Using a data set of more than 5000 large commercial banks from all major European banking markets over the period 1993-2004, the application of meta-frontiers enables us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604747
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Determinants of firms' efficiency: Do innovations and finance constraints matter?the case of European SMEs
Bonanno, Graziella; Ferrando, Annalisa; Rossi, Stefania - 2020
This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation activities. We enrich our understanding on firms' performance by adopting the stochastic frontier approach (SFA), which allows us to estimate profit functions and to obtain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422081
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Determinants of Firms’ Efficiency : Do Innovations and Finance Constraints Matter? The Case of European Smes
Bonanno, Graziella - 2020
This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation activities. We enrich our understanding on firms' performance by adopting the stochastic frontier approach (SFA), which allows us to estimate profit functions and to obtain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831402