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Lifting the Domestic Veil: The Challenges of Exporting Differentiated Goods Across the Development Divide
Hallak, Juan Carlos; Artopoulos, Alejandro; Friel, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
diffusion process that fosters export emergence in the sector. The most salient feature of export pioneers is their knowledge … advantage about foreign markets stemming from their embeddedness in the business community of their industry in a developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372428
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Survival in Export Markets
Albornoz, Facundo; Hallak, Juan Carlos; Fanelli, Sebastián - Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés - 2014
This paper explores the determinants of firm survival in export markets. Our theoretical framework includes a geometric Brownian motion for firm profitability, market-specific sunk and fixed exporting costs that are common across firms, and firm- and market-specific profitability shifters that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189198
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Diffusion and usage of public e-services in Europe: An assessment of country level indicators and drivers
Seri, Paolo; Bianchi, Annaflavia; Nicola, Matteucci - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
usage. Despite severe data limits and the complexity of the underlying diffusion phenomena, our study of eServices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260820
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The early diffusion of the steam engine in Britain, 1700–1800: a reappraisal
Nuvolari, Alessandro; Verspagen, Bart; Tunzelmann, Nick von - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 5 (2011) 3, pp. 291-321
We examine the diffusion of steam technology across British counties during the eighteenth century. First, we provide … diffusion of new technologies we fit S-shaped growth functions to the data on the numbers of steam engines installed in each … county. In this way, we are able to provide a comprehensive appraisal of the relative speed of the diffusion process in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293423
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A percolation model of the product lifecycle
Frenken, Koen; Silverberg, Gerald; Valente, Marco - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
on percolation dynamics. The model combines the concept of increasing returns to adoption with information diffusion … product lifecycle as an outcome of a single elementary process. The model also replicates the S-shaped diffusion curve and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712220
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Neighbors and the evolution of the comparative advantage of nations: Evidence of international knowledge diffusion?
Bahar, Dany; Hausmann, Ricardo; Hidalgo, Cesar A. - In: Journal of International Economics 92 (2014) 1, pp. 111-123
The literature on knowledge diffusion shows that knowledge decays strongly with distance. In this paper we document … diffusion. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738184
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The Influence of Installed Technologies on Future Adoption Decisions: Empirical Evidence from E-Business
Koellinger, Philipp; Schade, Schade, C. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010
This paper studies the adoption times of various e-business technologies in a large sample of firms from 10 different industry sectors and 25 European countries between 1994 and 2002. The results show that the probability of adoption increases with the number of previously adopted e-business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731063
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Acceleration of technology adoption within firms -- Emperical evidence from e-business
Koellinger, Philipp; Schade, Schade, C. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009
This paper studies the diffusion of multiple related technologies among firms. The results suggest an endogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731370
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE RESEARCH FIELD
UNGUREANU, Adriana RADAN - In: SEA - Practical Application of Science (2014) 5, pp. 655-662
The World is in a continuous change at the level of all its components including entrepreneurship, the most dynamic element of the business activity. Another direction of change comes from technologies called “key enabling technologies” and represents a revolution in using raw materials and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079736
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The cleansing effect of minimum wage : Minimum wage rules, firm dynamics and aggregate productivity in China
Poncet, Sandra; Mayneris, Florian; Zhang, Tao - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2014
We study how the 2004 reform of minimum wage rules in China has affected the survival, average wage, employment and productivity of local firms. To identify the causal effect of minimum wage growth, we use firm-level data for more than 160,000 manufacturing firms active in 2003 and complement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010902178