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studies have been based on manufacturing. In this paper - in search of further evidence supporting the results recently … obtained for a large sample of Dutch firms in the hospitality industry - we examine whether the assumption that growth rates … are independent of firm size can be rejected for the services, as it has been for manufacturing, also in the case of Italy …
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To achieve sustainable economic growth in transition countries, it is crucial that enterpriseperformance is improved. However, it is not a priori clear which factors are essential for this. ForRussia, data to investigate the potential determinants of enterprise performance is scarce.Therefore,...
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, while knowledge often surpasses the firms’ internal mechanisms, because, frequently, it is a spatially endogenous … database comprises an extensive set of Portuguese innovative firms, spatially identified and able to engage in spatial …
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We use data on a large-scale water and sanitation program in rural Mozambique, implemented between 2008 and 2013, to investigate the complementarities between a behavior-change-based community-led total sanitation intervention and a community water supply intervention. Our findings indicate that...
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We analyze output growth risk with respect to financial conditions across U.S. manufacturing industries. Using a multi …
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Taiwan manufacturing firms, and analyses whether the relationships between industrial agglomeration and total expenditure on … internet usage for industries are substitutes or complements. The sample observations are based on 153,081 manufacturing plants … adjust for sample selectivity for unobservable data for firms that use the internet. The empirical results from two …
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With China's 2001 WTO accession, trade costs between the US and China fell sharply, but the transport costs of Chinese imports within the US remained sizable. We argue that domestic transport costs shield local labor markets from globalization. Using a shift-share design for industry-level...
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This paper investigates the effect of industrial penetration and internet intensity for Taiwan manufacturing firms, and … analyses whether the relationships are substitutes or complements. The sample observations are based on 153,081 manufacturing … used to accommodate sample selectivity for unobservable data for firms that use the internet. The empirical results from …
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Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation results suggest that (particularly state) institutions aresignificant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment (FDI), the latter in turnbeing important for the...
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The main goal of this study is two-fold: (1) to provide a general overview of thecontributions to the literature on the informal sector, with a special focus on the PublicChoice approach; and (2) to compare these contributions across two institutionallydifferent types of countries: developed and...
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