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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency: evidence from Europe's top R&D investors
Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, … - 2009
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset consisting of 532 top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269441
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When, where and how to perform efficiency estimation
Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2011
In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the nonparametric kernel SFA estimator of Fan, Li and Weersink (1996) to the nonparametric bias corrected DEA estimator of Kneip, Simar and Wilson (2008). We assess the finite sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280699
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Training and the Density of Economic Activity : Evidence from Italy
de Paola, Maria; Brunello, Giorgio - 2004
We use a search and matching model to investigate the economic relationship between training and local economic conditions. We identify two aspects of this relationship going in opposite directions: on the one hand, the complementarity between local knowledge spillovers and training generates a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272723
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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent entrepreneur and the regional stratification of the … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261762
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The Role of the Regional Milieu for the Decision to Start a New Firm: Empirical Evidence for Germany
Wagner, Joachim; Sternberg, Rolf - 2002
Although comprehensive data from official statistics on new firm formation and entrepreneurs starting a new business are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ between regions, and that the propensity to become an entrepreneur is influenced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262745
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What's the difference?! Gender, personality, and the propensity to start a business
Furdas, Marina; Kohn, Karsten - 2010
, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269688
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Shadow economy and entrepreneurial entry
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010
-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level variables. A simple correlation coefficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272648
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Size matters: Entrepreneurial entry and government
Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2010
-level institutional indicators for 47 countries with working age population survey data taken from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272659
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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers
Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - 2011
enter entrepreneurship, we find that the conventional practice of conflating different industry types in empirical analyses … of transitions to entrepreneurship generates misleading findings about the determinants of entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282246
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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282293