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Vertical differentiation and collusion : cannibalization or proliferation?

Gabszewicz, Jean Jaskold; Marini, Marco A.; Tarola, Ornella - 2016

In this paper, we tackle the dilemma of pruning versus proliferation in a vertically differentiated oligopoly under the assumption that some firms collude and control both the range of variants for sale and their corresponding prices, likewise a multiproduct firm. We analyse whether pruning...

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Does network matter in international expansion? : evidence from Italian SMEs

Gurrieri, Antonia Rosa; Petruzzellis, Luca - 2008

In order to face the new competitive scenario, Apulian textile firms are involved in a process of change and are trying to adopt a networking approach in analysing the international propensity of SMEs. The case of the textile network in Apulia has been analysed using a semi-structured...

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Brown sunsets and green dawns in the industrial sector : environmental innovations, firm behavior and the European emission trading

Borghesi, Simone; Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2012

We study the driving forces behind the adoption of environmental innovations (EI) in the Italian industry over 2006-2008 through analyses of the new wave of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data that covered for the first time environmental innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first...

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The effects of management practices on effective tax rates : evidence from Ecuador

Beverinotti, Javier; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Deza, … - 2021

This paper examines the effects of management practices on effective tax rates (ETR) in a sample of medium and large manufacturing firms in Ecuador. We use a novel data set on management practice scores matched with administrative tax data from the Superintendence of Companies and the Internal...

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Asistencias técnicas y competitividad de las MiPyMEs : evidencia para Argentina

Castillo, Victoria; Garone, Lucas Figal; Maffioli, … - 2016

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The emergence of large shareholders in mass privatized firms : evidence from Poland and the Czech Republic

Grosfeld, Irena; Hoshi, Iraj - 2004

Mass privatization offers a particularly suitable framework to study the change in ownership concentration as the … change in ownership concentration and firm performance, we find an interesting difference between the two countries: in the … Czech Republic the increase in ownership concentration seems to be less likely in poorly performing firms while in Poland …

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Upgrading in the Indian automobile sector : the role of lead firms

Ray, Saon; Miglani, Smita - 2018

This paper has made an attempt to identify the role of lead firms in mapping the activities related to upgrading. Upgrading refers to the process through which firms may move up the value chain. The literature identifies different types of upgrading such as product, process, functional and...

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Vujanović, Nina - 2023

This paper investigates spatial dependence of FDI knowledge spillovers in manufacturing and services using spatial panel techniques applied to the 2006-2014 Bureau Van Dijk's Amadeus firm-level dataset for Croatia and Slovenia. The paper finds diverse results across the two sectors. The distance...

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Size, age and the growth of firms : new evidence from quantile regressions

Distante, Roberta; Petrella, Ivan; Santoro, Emiliano - 2014

The nexus between fi?rm growth, size and age in U.S. manufacturing is examined through the lens of quantile regression models. A number of interesting features are unveiled that linear frameworks could not detect. Size pushes both low and high performing firms towards the median rate of growth,...

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Microeconomic flexibility, creative destruction and trade

Blyde, Juan S.; Pineda, José - 2009

We investigate whether greater microeconomic flexibility facilitates the process of creative destruction in the context of new trade models with heterogeneous firms (Bernard et al., 2003 and Melitz, 2003). In these models, freer trade increases aggregate productivity because high-efficiency...

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