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Growth processes of Italian manufacturing firms
Coad, Alex; Rao, Rekha; Tamagni, Federico - 2008
We apply a reduced-form vector autoregression model to analyze the growth processes of Italian manufacturing firms, 1989-1997. We focus in particular on lead-lag associations describing the coevolution of employment growth, sales growth, growth of profits and labour productivity growth....
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Employment effects of innovation at the firm level
Rottmann, Horst; Lachenmaier, Stefan - 2007
This paper analyzes empirically the effects of innovation on employment at the firm level using a uniquely long panel … innovation categories. We find clearly positive effects for product and process innovations on employment growth with the effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308392
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Growth processes of Italian manufacturing firms
Coad, Alex; Rao, Rekha; Tamagni, Federico - 2010
This paper presents a multidimensional empirical analysis of firm growth. Exploiting census data on Italian manufacturing firms, 1989-1997, we estimate a reduced-form VAR to analyze the co-evolution of employment growth, sales growth, growth of profits and labour productivity growth. Our main...
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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
sample of Italian manufacturing firms. We run standard panel-data Gibrat regressions, suitably expanded to take into account …
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R&D Productivity and Firm Size in Semiconductors and Pharmaceuticals: Evidence from Citation Yields
Dindaroğlu, Burak - 2011
Using firm level panel data from the U.S., I explore the relationship between firm size and R&D productivity for two …: the number of citations received per patented innovation, and the number of citations received per dollar of R …
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Employment growth of new firms
Stam, Erik; Gibcus, Petra; Telussa, Jennifer; Garnsey, … - 2008
This paper analyses the association between dynamic capabilities and new firm growth, controlling for measures of firm resources, characteristics of the entrepreneur, and aspects of the environment. The central research question is: How strong is the relationship between dynamic capabilities and...
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The causal effects of exports on firm size and labor productivity: First evidence from a matching approach
Wagner, Joachim - 2001
This paper uses a large plant level panel data set from Germany and a matching approach to look for causal effects of … starting to export on plant performance. We find positive effects on growth of employment, labor productivity, and wages. …
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Growth determinants of start-ups in Eastern Germany: a comparison between innovative and non-innovative firms
Almus, Matthias; Nerlinger, Eric A.; Steil, Fabian - 1999
This empirical analysis deals with the determinants of growth and the explanation of variations in the growth between innovative and non-innovative start-ups. Based on theoretical models explaining the growth of firms, hypotheses on potential determinants are formulated. The regression results...
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Heavyweights - the impact of large businesses on productivity growth
Falck, Oliver - 2007
The idea of an industrial policy that promotes large businesses - heavyweights - as the best way to compete in a globalized world has become, again, en vogue among European politicians. The only apparent controversy about the idea revolves around whether it is better to promote national...
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Learning from trade through innovation: Causal link between imports, exports and innovation in Spanish microdata
Damijan, Jože P.; Kostevc, Črt - 2010
, including data on innovation and trade, we find clear sequencing between imports, exports and innovation. The results suggest … trade focusing solely on exports, whereby firm's learning effects are accounted in the firm of total factor productivity … processes induced by its import and export links with foreign markets. By using microdata for a large sample of Spanish firms …
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