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Eslava Mejía, Marcela; Haltiwanger, John C.; Kugler, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts:productivity, demand shocks, mark-ups and input costs. We find that each of these marketfundamentals are important in explaining plant exit. We then use variation across sectors intariff changes after the...

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The Financial and Operating Performance ofPrivatized Firms in Sweden

Tatahi, Motasam; Heshmati, Almas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

This paper examines the change in operating and financial performance of Swedish firmsthat were either partly or fully … privatized during the period of 1989-2007. Two differentmethods are used to empirically investigate the performance of privatized …-based event study is found useful tomeasure the financial performance of privatized firms, since all the firms in the sample …

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Testing for Complementarity and Substitutability among Multiple Technologies: The Case of U.S. HogFarms

Li, Yu; Hurley, Terrance M.; Kliebenstein, James; … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2011

We propose a strategy to identify the complementarity or substitutability amongtechnology bundles. Under the assumption that alternative technologies are independent,we develop a hypothetical distribution of multiple technology adoptions. Differencesbetween the observed distribution of...

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Firm Size, Technical Change And Wages In The PorkSector, 1990 -2005

Li, Yu; Hurley, Terrance M.; Kliebenstein, James; … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2011

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Entrepreneurial Spawning and Firm Characteristics

Habib, Michel; Hege, Ulrich; Mella-Barral, Pierre - National Centre of Competence in Research - Financial … - 2011

We analyze the implications of entrepreneurial spawning for a variety of firm characteristicssuch as size, focus, profitability, and innovativeness. We examine the dynamics of spawning overtime. Our model accounts for much of the empirical evidence relating to the relation betweenspawning and...

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Labour Contracts and Performance of Cameroonian Firms

Fomba Kamga, Benjamin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

The aim of this study is to evaluate employees’ productivity in relation to their contract status.This study uses (a) survey data collected among manufacturing sector firms, having morethan 15 employees, in Cameroon between April and May 2006 and (b) information issued bythe National Institute...

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Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy:Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model

Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

The robust empirical finding that exporting firms are systematically different from firms thatmerely serve domestic consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of tradetheory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The establishment of a canonical modeldue to Melitz (2003) has...

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Genetic Codes of Mergers, Post Merger Technology Evolution and Why Mergers Fail

Cuntz, Alexander - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2008

-merger performance) and technology (ex-anteselection) when firms decide to separate. After a brief review of the existingliterature we …-mergerinnovation performance, in particular with large spillovers, increases theprobability of survival, while we have no evidence that market …

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The Drivers and Implications of Business Divestiture - AnApplication and Extension of Prior Findings

Decker, Carolin; Mellewigt, Thomas - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007

mainly associated with firm financial performance and corporate strategy. Most studies investigate their impact on …, and, second, empirically testing the influence of performance and strategy both separately and in conjunction on the … performance is a stronger predictor of strategic business exit than corporate strategy. …

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Empirical Evidence on the Success of R&D Co-operation - Happy together?

Aschhoff, Birgit; Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>

In this paper we analyse the effect of R&D co-operation on firms´ innovationperformance. We investigate the effect of past co-operation on current sales ofinnovative products, distinguishing between products new to the firm and new tothe market, and on cost reductions due to innovative...

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