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database of comparable productivity indicators built by members of the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) using a newly ….g. productivity and size. The database comprises so far 11 countries, with information for 58 sectors over the period 1995-2011. The … results. Among them, it shows that there is large heterogeneity in terms of firm productivity or size within narrowly defined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060041
This paper investigates whether financial obstacles, and, more generally, financial pressure faced by firms, significantly affect firm growth. For this purpose, we use an unbalanced panel of about 1,000,000 observations for around 155,000 non-financial corporations in five euro area countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605043
database of comparable productivity indicators built by members of the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) using a newly ….g. productivity and size. The database comprises so far 11 countries, with information for 58 sectors over the period 1995-2011. The … results. Among them, it shows that there is large heterogeneity in terms of firm productivity or size within narrowly defined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605679
Network (CompNet). The new database provides information on the distribution of labour productivity, TFP, ULC or size of firms …, within each industry, but also their joint analysis with the productivity of the firm provides critical insights to both … productivity developments and its drivers. For instance, by using covariances between productivity and employment the paper shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605809
labour and total factor productivity. The paper shows that during the Great Recession the share of shrinking firms sharply … probability of growing, the process of productivity-enhancing reallocation was muted during the Great Recession. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011667205
labour and total factor productivity. The paper shows that during the Great Recession the share of shrinking firms sharply … probability of growing, the process of productivity-enhancing reallocation was muted during the Great Recession …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957982
This paper investigates whether financial obstacles, and, more generally, financial pressure faced by firms, significantly affect firm growth. For this purpose, we use an unbalanced panel of about 1,000,000 observations for around 155,000 non-financial corporations in five euro area countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764927
Network (CompNet). The new database provides information on the distribution of labour productivity, TFP, ULC or size of firms …, within each industry, but also their joint analysis with the productivity of the firm provides critical insights to both … productivity developments and its drivers. For instance, by using covariances between productivity and employment the paper shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026277
In a payment card association such as Visa, each time a consumer pays by card, the bank of the merchant (acquirer) pays an interchange fee (IF) to the bank of the cardholder (issuer) to carry out the transaction. This paper studies the determinants of socially and privately optimal IFs in a card...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605185
Payment card networks, such as Visa, require merchants' banks to pay substantial quot;interchangequot; fees to cardholders' banks, on a per transaction basis. This paper shows that a network's profit-maximizing fee induces an inefficient price structure, over-subsidizing card usage and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755032