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Technological learning, policy regimes and growth in a "globalized" economy: General patterns and the Latin American experience
Castaldi, Carolina; Cimoli, Mario; Correa, Nelson; … - 2004
The aim of this work is to investigate the role played by the so-called 'globalization' processes of the last couples of decades on the international patterns of technological learning and on the distribution of incomes and growth. First, we re-assess the evidence on the general patterns of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328522
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The patterns of output growth of firms and countries: New evidence on scale invariances and specificities
Castaldi, Carolina; Dosi, Giovanni - 2007
This work brings together two distinct pieces of evidence concerning, at the macro level, international distributions of incomes and their dynamics, and, at the micro level, the size distributions of firms and the properties of their growth rates. First, our empirical analysis provides a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328462
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Zum Zusammenhang zwischen Größe und Wachstum bei Gründungen - Empirische Ergebnisse für West-Deutschland
Nerlinger, Eric A.; Almus, Matthias - 1999
The present paper deals with the question whether 'Gibrat's law' is applicable to firms founded between 1989 and 1996 within the Western German manufacturing sector or not. The underlying assumption is that size of a firm has no in uence on its growth. Growth is rather determined by a process of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297605
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What Characterizes a Fast Growing Firm?
Almus, Matthias - 2000
and Western Germany. Descriptive analyses have shown that most firms experience only small positive or negative employment … when separatingEastern and Western Germany as well as usingdifferen t definitions of fast growingfirms. Moreover, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297728
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Socioeconomic heritage and rapid firm growth
Wyrwich, Michael - 2009
out both for West Germany - a mature market economy - and for East Germany, which operated under a centrally planned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267124
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Research and development: financial constraints and the role of public funding for small and medium-sized enterprises
Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2002
SME in Western and East-ern Germany are compared because these regions are very different in their supply of public R … German small and medium?sized firms (SME). Special attention is paid to the role of public R&D subsidies. For this purpose …&D funding. It turns out that Western German SME are financially constrained in their R&D activities by both internal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297688
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Empirical Essays in the Economics of Ageing and the Economics of Innovation
Reinkowski, Janina - 2013
sources on small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in Thuringia. …
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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel - 2011
markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294700
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Threshold effects and regional economic growth – Evidence from West Germany
Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2001
West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on the growth of West German regions. The paper finds that the relative … real world case, here West Germany, shows that the model might help to explain regional growth patterns. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295576
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Spatial R&D spillovers and economic growth: Evidence from West Germany
Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2000
The paper bases itself on recent theoretical writings in growth economics that empha-size the effects of both own R&D efforts and of interregional technology spillovers on regions´ productivity. We propose robust estimation techniques to evaluate the R&D spillovers across West German functional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295614