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The evolution of new firms' characteristics in Greece before and during the economic adjustment programmes
Bettas, Nikolaos; Valavanioti, Evangelia; Peppas, … - In: Economic bulletin 50 (2019), pp. 67-109
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012319687
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Do services differ from manufacturing? : the post-entry performance of firms in Dutch services
Audretsch, David B.; Klomp, Luuk; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1997
firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in findings that aresufficiently consistent as to … therelationships between firm age and size on the one hand, and survival and growth on the other may, infact, not be the same in …. The resultssuggest that the most fundamental relationships between firm size, age, survival and growth arestrikingly …
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The effect of industry, region and time on new business survival : a multi-dimensional analysis
Fritsch, Michael; Brixy, Udo; Falck, Oliver - 2004
We analyze the effect of industry, region and time on new-business survival rates by means of a multi …-dimensional approach. The data relate to West German districts in the 1983-2000 period. The survival chances of start-ups tend to be … rather pronounced positive influence on survival rates, while the relationship between the nationwide development of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009423630
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Small Firms, Their Growth and Product Differentiation
Thomas, Darron Anthony - 2011
This paper investigates a model of endogenous product differentiation between large well established and small newly established firms. Small firms should have greater growth potential than large mature firms whose growth potential tapers off once they reach a certain size relative to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131911
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Causal inference by independent component analysis with applications to micro- and macroeconomic data
Moneta, Alessio; Entner, Doris; Hoyer, Patrik; Coad, … - 2010
Structural vector-autoregressive models are potentially very useful tools for guiding both macro- and microeconomic policy. In this paper, we present a recently developed method for exploiting non-Gaussianity in the data for estimating such models, with the aim of capturing the causal structure...
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691623
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009695982
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087281
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087867
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The Within-Distribution Business Cycle Dynamics of German Firms
Döpke, Jörg - 2016
We analyse stylised facts for Germany's business cycle at the firm level. Based on longitudinal firm-level data from the Bundesbank's balance sheet statistics covering, on average, 55,000 firms per year from 1971 to 1998, we estimate transition probabilities of a firm in a certain real sales...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991183