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The Belgian production network 2002-2012
Dhyne, Emmanuel; Magerman, Glenn; Rubínova, Stela - 2015
transactions between enterprises in the Belgian economy. The dataset spans Primary Industries, Manufacturing, Utilities, Market … etc. As a simple example of the potential of this dataset, we evaluate the position of enterprises in the Belgian network … weighted distance to final demand, of the average enterprise is 1.6, ranging between 1 and 9.5. While only 5 % of enterprises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506808
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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - 2009
This study is framed against the increasingly stringent environmental demands on the pulp and paper industry since the late-1980s to reduce water and air pollution, and the global economic slowdown of the early-1990s. The primary focus of this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266037
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Firm Heterogeneity, Industry Characteristics and Types of FDI: The Case of German FDI in the Czech Republic
Mühlen, Henning; Görg, Holger; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2010
In addition to firm and industry characteristics, the heterogeneity of foreign direct investment (FDI) has to be taken into account when analyzing the determinants of outward FDI. We combine two firm-specific datasets on German firms with subsidiaries and joint ventures in the Czech Republic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010314359
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Managerial and financial barriers to the net-zero transition
Martin, Ralf; Muûls, Mirabelle; Schweiger, Helena - 2021
We use data on 11,233 firms across 22 emerging markets to analyze how credit constraints and low-quality firm management inhibit corporate investment in green technologies. For identification we exploit quasi-exogenous variation in local credit conditions and in exposure to weather shocks. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614255
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Managerial and financial barriers to the green transition
de Haas, Ralph; Martin, Ralf; Muûls, Mirabelle; … - 2023
Using data on 10,769 firms across 22 emerging markets, we show that both credit constraints and weak green management hold back corporate investment in green technologies embodied in new machinery, equipment and vehicles. In contrast, investment in measures to explicitly reduce emissions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550226
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Inside the Virtuous Cycle between Productivity, Profitability, Investment and Corporate Growth: An Anatomy of China Industrialization
Yu, Xiaodan; Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Lei, Jiasu - 2015
This article explores the dynamics of market selection by investigating of the relationships linking productivity, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998-2007. First, we find that productivity variations, rather than relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011651897
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Inside the virtuous cycle between productivity, profitability, investment and corporate growth: An anatomy of China industrialization
Yu, Xiaodan; Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Lei, Jiasu - 2015
This article explores the dynamics of market selection by investigating of the relationships linking productivity, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998 - 2007. First, we find that productivity variations, rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335929
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Evaluation of the Role of Universities in the Innovation Process
Becker, Wolfgang - 2003
The aim of the paper is to evaluate the role of universities in the innovation process. Against the background of theoretical considerations about the interrelation of innovation and the adaptation of external resources, the effects of university-based (knowledge) resources - together with other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263000
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Firms' international status and heterogeneity in performance: Evidence from Italy
Casaburi, Lorenzo; Gattai, Valeria; Minerva, G. Alfredo - 2008
, based on a large sample of Italian enterprises. To this purpose, we merged two waves of the Capitalia survey (1998-2000, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270935
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Air accessibility and the export of Italian manufacture in Europe: Evidence at regional level
Alderighi, Marco - 2013
We study the link between air accessibility (measured by non-stop flights offer) and the manufacturing export of the Italian regions in Europe using a panel of 12,000 half-yearly observations ranging from 1998 to 2010. The analysis shows that the supply of non-stop flights provided by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397580