agriculture sector, two questions merit attention. One, whether it is in fact MSMEs or large firms that have been significant … contributors to employment in the manufacturing sector. And two, how their contributions have evolved over time, across states … informal/unincorporated manufacturing sector in India for the period between 2000-01 and 2015-16, we find that the enterprise …

of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity … is that the decision to import foreign intermediates improves productivity in manufacturing firms. This matters from a …International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the …

The factors responsible for the lacklustre performance India's manufacturing are well identified in contemporary … regulations, focusing on the enactments and provisions that inhibit flexibility of manufacturing enterprises in adapting to swift …

Indi's stagnating manufacturing sector has become a serious cause of concern for Indian policy makers. Several reasons … importance of the manufacturing sector and its potential to contribute to growth and employment, corrective measures must be … high value manufacturing sector and provides recommendations on measures to achieve this objective. In the absence of …

harmonized dataset on listed firms from 70 countries in the period 2000-2022, I document four stylized facts about market power … levels during the commodity boom period. Second, aggregate markup dynamics are primarily driven by already high-markup firms … relationship between firm-level markups and size, which is significantly negative for most of the size distribution and …

skills in Danish manufacturing companies. The study is based on a unique data set that enables us to develop rich measures of …-wage countries lead to skill-downgrading. This latter result suggests that Danish manufacturing has comparative advantage in …

contracts. Then, we investigate these predictions using plant-level data for the UK manufacturing sector. Most importantly, and … for a number of firm and industry-level characteristics. …

This paper investigates the drivers of the environmental innovations (EI) introduced by firms in local production … systems (LPS). The role of firm network relationships, agglomeration economies and internationalization strategies is analysed … for a sample of 555 firms in the Emilia-Romagna region, North-East of Italy. Cooperating with "qualified" local actors - i …

There exists a growing body of literature which looks at export decisions made by firms. Most studies focus on … developed countries and do not explore whether different behavioral patterns prevail over the firm size distribution. This paper …