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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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Relations, money, and financial skills to fight an attrition war: The Strozzi brothers, bankers and commanders

Rabà, Michele Maria - In: The Journal of European Economic History (JEEH) 51 (2022) 2, pp. 9-44

physical distance that separated the king of France's armies in the Peninsula and his fleets in the Mediterranean. …

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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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