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Firm productivity and exports: Evidence from Ethiopian manufacturing firms
Bigsten, Arne; Gebreeyesus, Mulu - 2009
This paper examines the causal relationship between exporting and productivity using a ten years long plant-level panel … length to trace the trajectory of TFP and other productivity measures of groups of firms classified by their export history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475913
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Firms’ Exporting Behavior under Quality Constraints
Hallak, Juan Carlos; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - 2009
addition to "productivity", firms are also heterogeneous in their "caliber" — the ability to produce quality using fewer fixed … inputs. Compared to single-attribute models of firm heterogeneity emphasizing either productivity or the ability to produce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477200
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The transition of the manufacturing industry in Berlin/Brandenburg paying particular consideration to exports : an empirical analyze with official micro data
Mangelsdorf, Stefan - 2009
survey for the years from 1991 to 2000.The thesis pays special attention to the role of exports for the development of plants …. German economic policy promotes firms in their step on foreign markets, because exports are expected to stimulate the … economic growth. In order that such a promotion has a positive effect in the long run, exports have to have a positive effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449074
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Marketing in non-profit organizations : an international perspective
Dolnicar, Sara; Lazarevski, Katie - 2009
Purpose – This study tests three hypotheses: (1) that non-profit organizations follow a customer-centered approach to marketing, (2) that marketing is run by marketing-trained staff and (3) that cross-continental differences in the adoption of marketing in the UK, the USA and Australia exist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457542
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Exploring the financial consequences of the servitization of manufacturing
Neely, Andrew - 2008
Commentators suggest that to survive in developed economies manufacturing firmshave to move up the value chain, innovating and creating ever more sophisticatedproducts and services, so they do not have to compete on the basis of cost.While this strategy is proving increasingly popular with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463216
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Logistics manager skill requirements: Comparing international practices
Rahman, S; Butcher, T; Yang, L - 2009
In this era of globalisation, market forces dictate that contemporary supply chains are demand-driven, time-compressed and volatile. Yet many logistics supply chains span continents. This creates complexity for the people who manage them. Hence logistics operations require managers with a broad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481557
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An input-output approach for measuring real estate sector linkages
Song, Yu; Liu, Chunlu - 2007
This research aims to measure and compare the total, backward, forward, internal and sectoral linkages of the real estate sector using the hypothetical extraction method over 30 years and explore the role of this sector in national economies and the quantitative interdependence between the real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009483715
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A Comparative Analysis of Productivity Growth and Productivity Dispersion: Microeconomic Evidence Based on Listed Firms from Japan, Korea, and China
Ito, Keiko; Jung, Moosup; Kim, Young Gak; Yuan, Tangjun - 2008
Utilizing the firm-level dataset, this study aims to explore differences in firm-level productivity and growth between … Japan, Korea, and China, while at the same time illuminating the mechanism that has driven the narrowing in the productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009472553
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What do micro price data tell us on the validity of the new Keynesian Phillips curve?
Álvarez González, Luis Julián - 2007
The New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) is now the dominant model of inflation dynamics. In recent years, a large body of empirical research has documented price setting behaviour at the individual level, allowing the assessment of the micro foundations of pricing models. This paper analyses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530184
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New facts on consumer price rigidity in the euro area
Gautier, Erwan; Conflitti, Cristina; Faber, Riemer P.; …
Usando microdatos del IPC para 11 países del área del euro, que representan el 60 % de la cesta europea de consumo durante el período 2010-2019, documentamos nuevos resultados sobre rigidez de precios en el área del euro: i) cada mes, en promedio, el 12,3 % de los precios sufren cambios, en...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013494473