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Does finance really matter for the participation of SMEs in international trade? Evidence from 8,080 East Asian firms
Jinjarak, Yothin; Mutuc, Paulo Jose; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2014
than 100 employees) and non-SME firms in developing East Asian countries across sectors. The main findings suggest the …
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Why do SMEs not borrow more from banks? Evidence from the People's Republic of China and Southeast Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Jinjarak, Yothin - 2015
medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and five Southeast Asian economies (Indonesia …, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam). Analysis of microdata from enterprise surveys highlights key aspects of SME …, when it comes to external finance, SMEs typically use informal non-bank credit sources more than banks. Third, there is a …
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The role of patents and secrecy for intellectual property protection: theory and evidence
Mosel, Malte - 2012
Traditionally patents are seen as the gold standard for intellectual property protection. But, in line with empirical findings that secrecy is considered more important for appropriating returns, recent theories predict that firms keep their most important inventions secret. This article...
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Evolution of the industrial wage structure in China since 1980
Kwon, O. Hyun; Fleisher, Belton M.; Deng, Quheng - 2011
Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in … contributed to wage inequality due monopoly rent sharing. We show that the industrial wage dispersion in China has evolved to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278779
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Convergence of Knowledge-intensive Sectors and the EU's External Competitiveness
Biege, Sabine; Borowiecki, Martin; Dachs, Bernhard; … - 2012
The share of knowledge-intensive services and products in total output and demand and in the production of advanced, but also less advanced or emerging economies, has steadily increased over time and especially so for the knowledge-intensive services. This 'quaternization' of the economies not...
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Positionierung der deutschen Industrie im globalen Konsolidierungsprozess: im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie
Reinhard, Michael; Schedl, Hans; Buchwald, Achim; … - 2007
Die vorliegende Studie wurde im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Technologie erstellt und im Oktober 2006 abgeschlossen. Gegenstand der Studie ist die Untersuchung des Globalisierungs- und Anpassungsprozesses sowie seiner Ergebnisse in Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien,...
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From commodity booms to economic miracles: Why Southeast Asian industry lagged behind
Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2015
Except for the Philippines between 1896 and 1939, Southeast Asia was never part of the century-long East Asian industrial catching up until after World War II. Before the 1950s, Southeast Asian manufacturing hardly grew at all: while commodity export processing did grow fast, import-competing...
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Robots and firms
Koch, Michael; Manuylov, Ilya; Smolka, Marcel - 2019
We study the implications of robot adoption at the level of individual firms using a rich panel data-set of Spanish manufacturing firms over a 27-year period (1990-2016). We focus on three central questions: (1) Which firms adopt robots? (2) What are the labor market effects of robot adoption at...
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Exporting and foreign direct investment spillovers: Cambodia's experience
Chhair, Sokty; Ung, Luyna - 2014
One feature of exporting firms in Cambodia is that they are not of domestic origin but are foreign firms that export from the moment they are established in Cambodia. In this paper we examine the extent to which the presence of foreign-owned export firms impacts on the productivity of domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352721
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Exporting and productivity: The role of ownership and innovation in the case of Vietnam
Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn - 2014
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11. We separate out productivity effects of exporting due to self-selection allowing us to identify the extent to which firms...
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