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Innovationstätigkeit im Mittelstand: Messung und Bewertung
Maaß, Frank; Führmann, Bettina - 2012
Unternehmen (KMU) im Vergleich zu Großunternehmen in Deutschland. Hierzu wird die vorhandene Literatur ausgewertet und die … KMU innovativ sind. Dies ist insbesondere hinsichtlich der technologischen Innovationen zu beobachten. Neueste … zeigt sich eine besondere Stärke der KMU. In der Gesamtbetrachtung sind die KMU deutlich häufiger innovativ als bislang …
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What drives market structure? On the relation between firm demographic processes, firms? innovative behaviour and market structure
Fauchart, Emmanuelle; Keilbach, Max - 2002
In this paper we suggest an structural model that specifies firm growth as a function of firm specific parameters and of competition for purchase power with other firms on a given market. Moreover, we explicitely model firms? innovative behaviour and distinguish between dierent innovation...
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Investigating the exponential age distribution of firms
Coad, Alex - 2010
While several plots of the aggregate age distribution suggest that firm age is exponentially distributed, we find some departures from the exponential benchmark. At the lower tail, we find that very young establishments are more numerous than expected, but they face high exit hazards. At the...
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Invariances and diversities in the evolution of manufacturing industries
Bottazzi, Giulio; Cefis, Elena; Dosi, Giovanni; Secchi, … - 2003
In this work we explore some basic properties of the size distributions of firms and of their growth processes both at aggregate and disaggregate levels. First, we investigate which properties of firm's size distributions and growth dynamics are robust under disaggregation. Second, at a...
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The exponential age distribution and the Pareto firm size distribution
Coad, Alex - 2008
Recent work drawing on data for large and small firms has shown a Pareto distribution of firm size. We mix a Gibrat-type growth process among incumbents with an exponential distribution of firm's age, to obtain the empirical Pareto distribution.
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Is there a Lower Bound to the Firm Size Distribution Comparing Transition Economies with an Established Market Economy
Hutchinson, John - 2003
We apply Suttons (1998) framework to compare the firm size distribution of two transition economies, Slovenia and Bulgaria with that of a market economy, Belgium. We find that there exists a minimum degree of inequality in the size of firms. In addition firm size inequality levels in Belgium and...
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The European Size Distribution of Firms and Employment
Stenkula, Mikael - 2006
The policy debate in recent years has increasingly focused on issues concerning size distribution of firms and employment. It is often claimed that we are approaching a new economic era where large enterprises have lost their importance in developed economies. This raises the question of what we...
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Firm heterogeneity, credit constraints, and endogenous growth
Klarl, Torben; Maußner, Alfred - 2010
This paper is concerned with the role of firm heterogeneity under credit constraints for economic growth. We focus on firm size, innovativeness and credit constraints in a semi-endogenous growth model reflecting recent empirical findings on firm heterogeneity. It allows for an explicit solution...
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Do Small Firms compete with Large Firms?
Audretsch, D.B.; Prince, Y.M.; Thurik, A.R. - 1998
Despite the pervasive phenomenon of scale economies the majority of firms hasalways been small firms. The emergence of small firms as a means of economic development on both sides of the Atlantic has been one of the major new topics of economic policy since the 1980s. This has drawn renewed...
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On the Autocorrelation of Growth Rates: Evidence for Micro, Small and Large Firms from the Austrian Service Industries, 1975-2004
Coad, Alex; Hölzl, Werner - 2008
This paper studies the serial autocorrelation of annual growth rates in employment for selected Austrian service industries over a 30-year period using quantile regression techniques. The autocorrelation of growth rates provides important information on firms growth processes. We find that the...
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