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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
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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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Non-Price Competitiveness of Exports from Emerging Countries
Benkovskis, Konstantins - 2013
Building on the methodology pioneered by Feenstra (1994) and Broda and Weinstein (2006), we construct an export price index that adjusts for changes in the set of competitors (variety) and changes in non-price factors (quality in a broad sense) for nine emerging economies (Argentina, Brazil,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072993
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Durable Goods, Price Indexes and Quality Change : An Application to Automobile Prices in Italy, 1988-1998
Tomat, Gian Maria - 2021
The paper analyzes the problems of measurement of durable consumer prices posed by quality change. Theoretical price indexes are defined and used to analyze several empirical methods of estimation of quality adjusted price indexes. The paper shows that hedonic regressions and other quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320255
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Product Quality, Measured Inflation and Monetary Policy
Rodnyansky, Alexander; Van der Ghote, Alejandro; Wales, … - 2022
This paper proposes a tractable New Keynesian (NK) economy with endogenous adjustment in product quality that nests the canonical framework. Endogenous quality choice reduces the slope of the traditional NK Phillips curve and amplifies the economy’s response to productivity shocks. This leads...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080687
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Estimating the Impact of Quality Adjustment on Consumer Price Inflation
Menz, Jan-Oliver; Wieland, Elisabeth; Mehrhoff, Jens - 2023
How much does quality adjustment matter in measuring consumer price inflation? To address this question, we use different sources of micro and macro price data for Germany and the euro area. For Germany, we find that quality adjustment applies to a large range of goods and services but, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014257781
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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; Santabárbara, Daniel - 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/10011605356