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Do liquidity constraints matter in explaining firm size and growth? Some evidence from the Italian manufacturing industry
Fagiolo, Giorgio; Luzzi, Alessandra - 2004
The paper investigates whether liquidity constraints affect firm size and growth dynamics using a large longitudinal sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We run standard panel-data Gibrat regressions, suitably expanded to take into account liquidity constraints (proxied by cash flow scaled by...
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Financial fragility and growth dynamics of Italian business firms
Bottazzi, Giulio; Secchi, Angelo; Tamagni, Federico - 2006
This work explores a number of properties investigated in the empirical literature on firm size and growth dynamics: (i) the distribution and the autoregressive structure of firm size; (ii) the existence of size-growth scaling relationships; (iii) the distribution and the autoregressive structure...
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Gibrat's Law and the Firm Size / Firm Growth Relationship in Italian Services
Piergiovanni, R.; Santarelli, E.; Klomp, L.; Thurik, A.R. - 2002
are independent of firm size can be rejected for the services, as it has been for manufacturing, also in the case of Italy …
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Employment Protection Legislation and the Size of Firms
Garibaldi, Pietro; Pacelli, Lia; Borgarello, Andrea - 2003
Legislation (EPL) varies across the firm size distribution. In Italy firms are obliged to rehire an unfairly dismissed worker only …
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Firm growth and scaling of growth rate variance in multiplant firms
Coad, Alex - 2007
While Gibrat's Law assumes that growth rate variance is independent of size, empirical work has usually found a negative relationship between growth rate variance and firm growth. Using data on French manufacturing firms, we observe a relatively low, but statistically significant, negative...
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The effects of privatization and consolidation on bank productivity: comparative evidence from Italy and Germany
Fiorentino, Elisabetta; Vincenzo, Alessio De; Heid, Frank; … - 2009
directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state …
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Efficiency and profitability of European banks: how important is operational efficiency?
Werner, Karl; Moormann, Jürgen - 2009
period 1998-2005 and discusses the results from the perspective of corporate bank strategy. Methodologically the existing … concentration of the national financial sector have a considerable impact on a bank's financial performance. Both issues proved to …
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Self-selection into export markets by business services firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2010
comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … services firms into exporting does not show up among firms from France and the UK where no statistically significant …
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Social protection of non-standard workers and the self-employed during the pandemic country chapters: Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Sweden
Spasova, Slavina (contributor); Ghailani, Dalila (contributor) - 2021
. 2021), this edited volume comprises eight country case studies: Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal …
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Firm growth in multinational corporate groups
Oberhofer, Harald; Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2008
This paper formulates an econometric firm growth model that explicitly accounts for the interdependence of firm performance within corporate networks and is in line with several economic theories on firm growth. We estimate the model for national and multinational corporate groups (MNEs) using a...
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