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Does Private Equity Investment Spur Innovation? Evidence from Europe
Popov, Alexander A. - 2012
We provide the first cross-country evidence of the effect of investment by private equity firms on innovation, focusing … funds and insurance companies across countries and over time. We also control for the standard determinants of innovation … aggregate (private equity plus R&D) industrial spending, PE accounts for as much as 12% of industrial innovation. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117009
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On the Real Effects of Private Equity Investment : Evidence from New Business Creation
Popov, Alexander A. - 2010
Using a comprehensive database of European firms, we study how private equity affects the rate of firm entry. We find that private equity investment benefits new business incorporation, especially in industries with naturally higher entry rates and R&D intensity. A two standard deviation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152176
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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 … efficiency in order to increase profitability. Among firms that have embarked in product innovation, those in the industry and … help to better understand the link between innovation, financial constraints and efficiency, which goes beyond the idea …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831402
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Financial Reforms and Innovation : A Micro-Macro Perspective
Boikos, Spyridon; Bournakis, Ioannis; Christopoulos, … - 2021
suggests that whilst micro reforms boost innovation, macro reforms may appear negative. We test and find empirical support for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229692
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Does private equity investment spur innovation? Evidence from Europe
Popov, Alexander; Roosenboom, Peter - 2009
We provide the first cross-country evidence of the effect of investment by private equity firms on innovation, focusing … funds and insurance companies across countries and over time. We also control for the standard determinants of innovation … aggregate (private equity plus R&D) industrial spending, PE accounts for as much as 12% of industrial innovation. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605109
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On the real effects of private equity investment: evidence from new business creation
Popov, Alexander; Roosenboom, Peter - 2009
Using a comprehensive database of European firms, we study how private equity affects the rate of firm entry. We find that private equity investment benefits new business incorporation, especially in industries with naturally higher entry rates and R&D intensity. A two standard deviation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605124
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Structural Reforms and Macroeconomic Performance in the Euro Area Countries : A Model-Based Assessment
Gomes, Sandra - 2011
We quantitatively assess the macroeconomic effects of country-specific supply-side reforms in the euro area by simulating EAGLE, a multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model. We consider reforms in the labor and services markets of Germany (or, alternatively, Portugal) and the rest of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127922
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The ECB's New Multi-Country Model for the Euro Area : NMCM - With Boundedly Rational Learning Expectations
Dieppe, Alistair - 2011
Rational expectations has been the dominant way to model expectations, but the literature has quickly moved to a more realistic assumption of boundedly rational learning where agents are assumed to use only a limited set of information to form their expectations. A standard assumption is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128293
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The ECB's New Multi-Country Model for the Euro Area : NMCM - Simulated with Rational Expectations
Dieppe, Alistair - 2011
The model presented here is a New estimated medium-scale Multi-Country Model (NMCM) which covers the five largest euro area countries and is used for forecasting and scenarios analysis at the European Central Bank. The model has a tight theoretical structure which allows for non-unitary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128296
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Is China Climbing Up the Quality Ladder? Estimating Cross Country Differences in Product Quality Using Eurostat's COMEXT Trade Database
Pula, Gabor - 2011
There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China's export structure is very similar to that of the advanced world, its export unit values are well below...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129033