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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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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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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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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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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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Entrepreneurial aging and employment growth in the context of extreme growth events

Schimke, Antje - 2012

growth. For the empirical estimation we apply a linked employer-employee dataset providing 2.100 German firms covering the …

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Firm growth, innovation and the business cycle: Background report for the 2014 competitiveness report

Peters, Bettina; Dachs, Bernhard; Dünser, Martina; … - 2014

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Distance to frontier and appropriate business strategy

Coad, Alex - 2008

This paper is an empirical test of the hypothesis that the appropriateness of different business strategies is conditional on the firm's distance to the industry frontier. We use data on four 2-digit high-tech manufacturing industries in the US over the period 1972-1999, and apply...

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Job creation, job destruction and firms’ international trade involvement

Pisu, Mauro - 2008

One of the most important predictions made in recent international trade literature based on heterogeneous firms concerns the within-industry job reallocation from firms not involved in international markets to those that are. This paper quantifies the extent of this reallocation using a dataset...

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Export and innovation activities in the German service sector: empirical evidence at the firm level

Ebling, Günther; Janz, Norbert - 1999

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …

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