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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)

Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - 2009

This paper constructs a Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEINDEX) that captures the contextual feature of entrepreneurship across countries. We find the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development to be mildly S-shaped not U-shaped or L-shaped. Our findings suggest moving away...

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Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies

Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2008

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...

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Penetrating the knowledge filter in the rust belt

Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2007

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...

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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)

Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

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Entry, exit and productivity empirical results for German manufacturing industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

Using panel data from Spain Farinas and Ruano (IJIO 2005) test three hypotheses from a model by Hopenhayn (Econometrica 1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that enter in year t are less productive than incumbent...

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Export entry, export exit, and productivity in German manufacturing industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

This paper contributes to the flourishing literature on exports and productivity by using a unique newly available …

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Productivity and size of the export market evidence for West and East German plants, 2004

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship bet-ween productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading …

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Exports and productivity in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on … literature to document that the positive productivity differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and non-exporters is at …

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Productivity and the product scope of multi-product firms: a test of Feenstra-Ma

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 415-419

firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect”. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and …

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Are low-productive exporters marginal exporters? Evidence from Germany

Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 467-481

-exporters. It is argued that this exporter-productivity premium is due to extra cost of exporting that can be covered profitably by … than non-exporting firms from the same 4-digit industry both on average and over the whole productivity distribution …. However, many firms from the lower end of this distribution are exporters. This paper report that these low-productivity …

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