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of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market …
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&D personnel and industry concentration exists. If market concentration is a measure of competition than we can conclude that … innovation is related to the competitive market structure. We arrived at the same conclusion when innovation was measured by … intangible assets and competition was measured by Lerner index. Finally, our analysis concluded that although foreign firms are …
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Entrepreneurs are a rare species. Even in innovation-driven economies, only 1–2% of the work force starts a business in …. The gains of entrepreneurship are only realized, however, if the business environment is receptive to innovation. In …
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There are many factors that determine the structure of competition in the environment of growing globalization. Of … these, the factors which predominates the nature of competition include not only rivals, but also the economics of … products. Hence, competition seems to be inevitable. However, collaboration in the business strategy may be considered …
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This paper studies the effect of government-backed partial credit guarantees on firms’ performance in Colombia. These guarantees are automatically granted by the National Guarantee Fund (NGF) to firms without enough collateral to lift their credit constraints. We put together a panel of firms...
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The purpose of this article is to investigate if the industry context matters for whether Gibrat’s law is rejected or not using a dataset that consists of all limited firms in five-digit NACE-industries in Sweden during 1998–2004. The results reject Gibrat’s law on an aggregate level,...
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This paper studies the effect of government-backed partial credit guarantees on firms' performance. These guarantees are automatically granted to firms without enough collateral in order to lift their credit constraints. We put together a panel, covering the period 1997-2007, that combines data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943660
The purpose of this paper is to distinguish between the determinants of new start-ups and in-migration of firms using a data-set that covers 13,471 limited liability firms in the Swedish wholesale trade industries during the period 2000-2004. Our results indicate that the presence of a...
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate if the industry context matters for whether Gibrat's law is rejected or not using a dataset that consists of all limited firms in 5-digit NACE-industries in Sweden during 1998-2004. The results reject Gibrat's law on an aggregate level, since small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225856
Despite the large potential gains from credit by second-tier development banks, little is known about the actual impact of these banks' lending activity. This study partially fills that gap by analyzing the impact of the lending activity of Bancoldex, the Colombian second-tier development bank,...
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