This paper investigates the dynamics of firm growth in the U. S.manufacturing sector in the recent past. I use panel … data on thepublicly traded firms in the U. S. manufacturing sector: from auniverse of approximately 1800 firms in 1976, I …

Both Research and Development (R&D) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) investment have been identified … complements or substitutes. We use data on a large unbalanced panel data sample of Italian manufacturing firms constructed from … four consecutive waves of a survey of manufacturing firms, together with a version of the CDM model (Crepon et al., 1998 …

on Italian SMEs from the quot;Survey on Manufacturing Firmsquot; conducted by Mediocredito-Capitalia covering the period …

This paper uses a newly available dataset on the R&D performance of individual French manufacturing firms for the 1980s … the production function is uniformly positive, fairly robust, and correlated with permanent firm or industry effects …

Italian manufacturing firms have been losing ground with respect to many of their European competitors. This paper … Italian manufacturing firms conducted by Mediocredito-Capitalia, which cover the period 1995-2003. Using a slightly modified …

large unbalanced panel of U.S. manufacturing firms for the years 1974 to 2003. The two methods do not agree, in that the …

manufacturing firms in large developed countries that have varying financial and capital market institutions. Specifically, we look …

recent years and ten to twenty years go in the French and U.S. Manufacturing industries, are real' and economically …