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the relation between the introduction of innovation and subsequent firm growth in terms of sales. Recent contributions … examining the returns to innovation on firm performance have stressed the need of going beyond the analysis of the "average … adopt quantile treatment effects (QTE) which allow to estimate the effect of the introduction of innovation by comparing …
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We provide evidence on the growth patterns of microfinance clients. Our analysis is motivated by the debate on the impact of microfinance on client income and growth. Based on loan-level data from close to 40,000 clients in Sub-Saharan Africa we make use of an econometric approach widely...
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Firm growth is an essential feature of market economies, shaping together macroeconomic performance and the evolution of industry structures. As a potential indicator of organizational "fitness" within a competitive environment, firm growth is also a central concern to both the practice and...
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The report examines the dynamics of company size classes in Finland and the relationship between growth barriers and company size. It investigates how Finnish companies have moved between different company size categories from 2008 to 2020, categorizing them based on both the number of employees...
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understand why. After evaluating three common innovation measures, only one measure, RQ, satisfies the requirements for the R …
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This paper studies the effect of competition on firm innovation by developing a discrete-time endogenous growth model … where multi-product firms do two types of innovation subject to friction in technology spillovers. Firms improve their … existing products through internal innovation while entering others' product markets through external innovation. We introduce …
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The Philippines is often referred to as a country from which export of services rather than manufactured goods is the … other modern services in urban areas. Second is expanding tourism to foster economic development across social groups and …; and education, healthcare, financial, legal, and public administration services and more generally the overall business …
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students from three universities in northern Poland. The proposed model includes growth aspirations as an endogenous variable …
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Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market institutions influence economic dynamism by their impact on the supply of a key factor, skilled workers to new and expanding firms, and the shedding of workers from declining and...
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, it probes the relationship between innovation and growth of SMEs by (i) estimating a correlation between innovation sales … and sales growth, (ii) calculating innovation sales for high, medium, and low growth innovative SMEs and doing a one …-way ANOVA, and (iii) ascertaining the influence of innovation sales, along with investment growth and employment growth on gross …
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