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Statistical cluster techniques are applied in the development of two new taxonomies of manufacturing industries. The first focuses on the distinction between exogenous, location dependent comparative cost advantages, such as the relative abundance of capital or labour, and endogenously created...
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We use a unique longitudinal dataset that tracks the exporting behavior of Belgian manufacturing firms between 1997 and 2009. We ask how slack resources, including financial and human resource slack, influence firms’ exporting behavior. Our findings suggest that both types of slack resources...
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In 1996, Becker and Gerhart noted that much of the work on human resources (HR) and performance had traditionally been conducted at the individual level of analysis. However, in the 1990s, empirical research on HR and performance increasingly moved to the plant/unit and firm level of analysis...
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spillovers we argue that effects of FDI work through direct compositional effects as well as changing competition in the host …
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This paper reviews the current empirical literature on competition and market structure of Philippine industries. It … shows that weak competition is one of the fundamental factors that explain limited growth, productivity, and employment in …, while necessary, are not sufficient to foster effective competition. The success of these reforms depends on the creation of …
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competition arising from trade reforms lead to increases in innovation? This paper attempts to examine the link between trade … Licandro (2009, 2010) as guide, a two-stage approach is tested where trade and innovation are linked via competition. A … reduction in tariffs leads to an increase in competition as price cost margins fall due to the increase in the number of players …
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An extensive empirical literature has documented the positive growth effects of equity market liberalization. However, this line of research ignores the impact of financial integration on a category of firms crucial for economic development, i.e. the small entrepreneurial firms. This paper aims...
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This paper uses representative firm level panel data of 1,701 Bulgarian and 2,047 Romanian manufacturing firms to estimate market power (i.e. price-cost margins) and to analyze how these are affected by privatization and increased competitive pressure. In contrast to earlier work that analyzes...
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effects of increased import competition are reinforced for foreign owned firms. In contrast, in Bulgaria and Romania …
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