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Do Entry Regulations Deter Entrepreneurship and Job Creation? Evidence from Recent Reforms in Portugal
Branstetter, Lee G. - 2010
Recent research has suggested that the reduction of entry regulation can promote firm entry and job creation, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462184
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Firm Dynamics and Financial Development
Arellano, Cristina - 2009
This paper studies the impact of cross-country variation in financial market development on firms' financing choices and growth rates using comprehensive firm-level datasets. We document that in less financially developed economies, small firms grow faster and have lower debt to asset ratios...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463456
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Why Did Some Banks Perform Better During the Credit Crisis? A Cross-Country Study of the Impact of Governance and Regulation
Beltratti, Andrea - 2009
-level governance, country-level governance, country-level regulation, and bank balance sheet and profitability characteristics before …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463469
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Knowledge Management, Innovation, and Productivity : A Firm Level Exploration Based on French Manufacturing CIS3 Data
Kremp, Elisabeth - 2004
knowledge acquisition (A), implementing written knowledge management rules (W). The French 1998-2000 Community Innovation Survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468456
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The Acquisition and Commercialization of Invention in American Manufacturing : Incidence and Impact
Arora, Ashish - 2014
Recent accounts suggest the development and commercialization of invention has become more "open." Greater division of … innovation in the US economy. Although customers are the most frequent outside source, inventions acquired from technology … sources of invention make a significant contribution to the overall rate of innovation in the economy. Innovation policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458402
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Assessing job flows across countries : the role of industry, firm size and regulations
Haltiwanger, John C. - 2008
"This paper analyzes job flows in a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade, exploiting a harmonized firm-level dataset. It shows that industry and firm size effects (and especially firm size) account for a large fraction in the overall variability in job flows....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521324
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Assessing Job Flows Across Countries : The Role of Industry, Firm Size and Regulations
Haltiwanger, John - 2008
This paper analyzes job flows in a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade, exploiting a harmonized firm-level dataset. It shows that industry and firm size effects (and especially firm size) account for a large fraction in the overall variability in job flows....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464727
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Management and Misallocation in Mexico
Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938686
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Growing Like China : Firm Performance and Global Production Line Position
Chor, Davin - 2020
Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481098
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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2011
The new trade theory emphasizes the role of market-share reallocations across firms ("stealing") in driving productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). We use comprehensive, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector...
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