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Network configuration as a measure of power in global production networks

Iliopoulos, Panagiotis; Galanis, Giorgos; Kumar, Ashok; … - 2020

Power is one of the key components in understanding and analyzing global production and is central to the analytical frameworks of both GVCs and GPNs. By focusing on firms' power within GPNs, we are able to draw a novel analytical link between the governance structures of GVCs and network...

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Dynamics of investment and firm performance : comparative evidence from manufacturing industries

Grazzi, Marco; Jacoby, Nadia; Treibich, Tania - 2013

If the relation between investment and economic growth is well established in the macroeconomic literature, the … linking investment and firm performance in the French and Italian manufacturing industries. It does so by putting forth a … novel methodology to identify investment spikes that corrects for size dependence. While maintaining the desired properties …

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Inside the virtuous cycle between productivity, profitability, investment and corporate growth : an anatomy of China industrialization

Yu, Xiaodan; Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Lei, Jiasu - 2015

, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998 - 2007. First, we find …, the profitability-growth relationship is mediated via investment. Firm's contemporaneous and lagged profitabilities … display positive and significant effect on the probability to report an investment spike, and, in turn, investment activity is …

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Do liquidity constraints matter in explaining firm size and growth? : Some evidence from the Italian manufacturing industry

Fagiolo, Giorgio (contributor); … - 2004

-constrained. -- Firm Size ; Liquidity Constraints ; Firm Growth ; Investment ; Gibrat Law …

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Distant but close in sight : firm-level evidence on French-German productivity gaps in manufacturing

Grebel, Thomas; Napoletano, Mauro; Nesta, Lionel - 2020

We study the productivity level distributions of manufacturing firms in France and Germany, and how these distributions evolved across the Great Recession. We show the presence of a systematic productivity advantage of German firms over French ones in the decade 2003-2013, but the gap has...

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Technology and costs in international competitiveness : from countries and sectors to firms

Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele - 2014

that the countries' sectoral market shares are indeed mainly shaped by technological factors (proxied by investment …

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An evolutionary model of international competition and growth

Castaldi, Carolina (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

The paper attempts to interpret a few stylized facts of international economic growth by means of an open economy evolutionary model. The idea is that growth models that incorporate a richer representation of the properties and effects of technological change can give a better explanation of the...

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Does the position in the inter-sectoral knowledge space affect the international competitiveness of industries?

Lamperti, Francesco; Malerba, Franco; Mavilia, Roberto; … - 2019

This paper empirically investigates how the inter-sectoral knowledge flows affect the international competitiveness of industries, once controlling for both cost and other technological factors. Using patent data on 14 manufacturing industries in 16 OECD countries over the period 1995-2009, we...

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Patterns of specialisation and economic complexity through the lens of universal exhibitions, 1855-1900

Domini, Giacomo - 2019

This paper reconstructs Revealed Comparative Advantages (RCA) and Economic Complexity Indices (ECI) for a large number of countries in the second half of the 19th century, by using data from the catalogues of five universal exhibitions held in Paris in 1855, 1867, 1878, 1889, and 1900. This...

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Governance structure, technical change and industry competition

Guerini, Mattia; Harting, Philipp; Napoletano, Mauro - 2020

We develop a model to study the impact of corporate governance on firm investment decisions and industry competition … investment strategy and we study how different governance structures shape technical progress and the degree of competition over …

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