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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes: cross-country and time-series evidence from the business environment and enterprise performance surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and...
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Der Beschäftigungsbeitrag mittelständischer Exportunternehmen
Wolter, Hans-Jürgen; May-Strobl, Eva - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn - 2013
Großunternehmen im höheren Maße Auslandsaktivitäten auf als KMU. Im Hinblick auf die Bedeutung des Exports für die Beschäftigung in … activities for the level of employment in Germany, an analysis by economic sectors reveals that in almost all sectors exporting … enterprises show an above-average employment development. However, during the years 2008/09, marked by the global economic crisis …
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Der nachhaltige Beschäftigungsbeitrag von KMU: Eine sektorale Analyse unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der FuE- und wissensintensiven Wirtschaftszweige
May-Strobl, Eva; Haunschild, Ljuba - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn - 2013
Die Mittelstandshypothese besagt, dass kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) im Verhält-nis zur bereits bestehenden … zurückliegenden Dekade waren es ausschließlich KMU, die einen Nettozuwachs an sozialversicherungspflichtiger Beschäftigung …It is often claimed that small and medium sized enterprises (SME) account for a dispropor-tionate large share of net …
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When is Gibrat’s law a law?
Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Elert, Niklas - In: Small Business Economics 41 (2013) 1, pp. 133-147
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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Firm Survival and Change in Ghana, 2003-2013
Davies, Elwyn; Kerr, Andrew - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2015
. Overall, the picture we paint of manufacturing in Ghana is not a positive one: total employment by firms operating before 2003 … decreased from 134 863 in 2003 to 74 319 in 2013. It remains a question to what extent this was compensated by new employment by …
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Firms’ Size Moderating Financial Performance in Growing Firms: An Empirical Evidence from Pakistan
Abbasi, Atif; Malik, Qaisar Ali - In: International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 5 (2015) 2, pp. 334-339
The main determination of the research is to pinpoint the moderating inspiration of firm size between the relationship of firm growth and firm performance. In the study Null and alternative hypothesis have been constructed, Null hypothesis is concerning the negation of the moderating effect of...
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Weird Ties? Growth, Cycles and Firm Dynamics in an Agent-Based Model with Financial-Market Imperfections
Napoletano, Mauro; Gatti, Domenico Delli; Fagiolo, Giorgio - Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola … - 2005
This paper studies how the interplay between technological shocks and financial variables shapes the properties of macroeconomic dynamics. Most of the existing literature has based the analysis of aggregate macroeconomic regularities on the representative agent hypothesis (RAH). However, recent...
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New Start-ups and Firm In-migration - Evidence from the Swedish Wholesale Trade Industry
Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Elert, Niklas; Rudholm, Niklas - Handelns Utredningsinstitut (HUI Research) - 2011
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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When is Gibrat's Law a Law?
Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Elert, Niklas - Handelns Utredningsinstitut (HUI Research) - 2010
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
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Does Gibrat’s Law Hold for Retailing? Evidence from Sweden
Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Elert, Niklas; Lang, Åsa - Handelns Utredningsinstitut (HUI Research) - 2011
Gibrat’s Law predicts that firm growth is a purely random effect and therefore should be independent of firm size. The purpose of this paper is to test Gibrat’s law within the retail industry, using a novel data-set comprising all Swedish limited liability companies active at some point...
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