Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 392
Cover Image
The industrial districts' contribution to change in the Italian economy
Sforzi, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Between 1981 and 2001 Italy became a services-oriented economy. The loss of jobs in manufacturing was less pronounced in Italy’s organized industrial districts than in the rest of the country. The branches of manufacturing that typify the districts outperformed the others in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260042
Cover Image
Measuring dynamic market selection by persistent scale inefficiencies - applied to EU business services
Kox, Henk L.M.; Leeuwen, George van - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper proposes a new way of analysing the efficiency of dynamic market selection, based on the persistence of scale economies. The persistence of scale-related inefficiencies is used as an indicator for the effectiveness of market selection. We use a DEA method to construct the productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010539822
Cover Image
Competitive, but too small - productivity and entry-exit determinants in European business services
Kox, Henk L.M.; Leeuwen, George van; Wiel, Henry van der - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper investigates whether scale effects, market structure, and regulation determine the poor productivity performance of the European business services industry. We apply parametric and nonparametric methods to estimate the productivity frontier and subsequently explain the distance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532155
Cover Image
Business services and the changing structure of European economic growth
Kox, Henk L.M.; Rubalcaba, Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
, productivity and innovation. A direct growth contribution stems from the business-services sector’s own remarkably fast growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980398
Cover Image
Market structure, productivity and scale in European business services
Kox, Henk L.M.; Leeuwen, George van; Wiel, Henry van der - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Using data from 11 EU countries, the paper investigates the impact of scale economies on labour productivity in European business services. Moreover, it analyses whether the incidence of scale sub-optimality is related to characteristics of the market or to national regulation characteristics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790027
Cover Image
Analysing the contribution of business services to European economic growth
Kox, Henk L.M.; Rubalcaba, Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
ambitious Lisbon goals with respect to employment, productivity and innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790451
Cover Image
Niche products, generic products, and consumer search
Larson, Nathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We endogenize product differentiation in a model of sequential search with random firm-consumer match value à la Wolinsky (1986) and Anderson and Renault (1999). We focus on a product design choice by which a firm can control the dispersion of consumer valuations for its product; we interpret...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211231
Cover Image
Locating inside the Salop circle: Demand rotations in a micro-founded model
Bar-Isaac, Heski; Caruana, Guillermo; Cuñat, Vicente - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We present a micro-founded model of design, that provides a framework in which design leads to demand rotations. We show simple sufficient conditions that determine when design should be extreme (fully standardized or fully tailored) or rather be only partially tailored.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111146
Cover Image
Impact of Economic Crisis on Innovation Behaviour of Industrial Firms In Russia
Kuznetsov, Boris - 2013
The paper focuses on empirical analysis of major factors that determine innovation activities of Russian manufacturing … innovation activity of a firm, including structural characteristics (size, industry, etc.), competitive environment (intensity of … competition and type of main competitors), changes in financial position of a firm, it's pre-crisis performance and innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082604
Cover Image
Fostering Innovation in Russian Companies in the Post-Crisis Period : Opportunities and Constraints
Simachev, Yuri - 2013
In recent years the Russian innovation policy has made a significant progress that manifests in developing its ‘tool … kit', increasing resource base, etc. However it has not yet succeeded in improving business innovation activities that … Russian industrial enterprises the authors analyze key features of innovation in Russian companies under economic recovery, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083716