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Like milk or wine : does firm performance improve with age?
Coad, Alexander; Segarra Blasco, Agustí; Teruel, Mercedes - 2010
Our empirical literature review shows that little is known about how firm performance changes with age, presumably because of the paucity of data on firm age. For Spanish manufacturing firms, we analyse the firm performance related to firm age between 1998 and 2006. We find evidence that firms...
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Innovation and job creation in (high-growth) new firms
Santoleri, Pietro - 2019
Recent research has underscored the prominent role played by a small fraction of fast-growing new firms in contributing to aggregate net employment growth. While it is typically assumed that those firms experience this superior performance thanks to their ability in undertaking technological...
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An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth
Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl-Magnus; … - 2014 - Version: 1 October 2014
The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers’ attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...
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Does size or age of innovative firms affect their growth persistence : evidence from a panel of innovative Spanish firms
Ciriaci, Daria; Moncada Paternò Castello, Pietro; … - 2012
This study examines serial correlation in employment, sales and innovative sales growth rates in a balanced panel of 3,300 Spanish firms over the years 2002-2009, obtained by matching different waves of the Spanish Encuesta sobre Innovacion en las Empresas, the Spanish innovation survey...
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Marshallian vs Jacobs effects : which one is stronger? : evidence for Russia unemployment dynamics
Demidova, Olʹga Anatolʹevna; Kolyagina, Alena; … - 2018
This paper is devoted to the study of diversification and specialization influence on one of the main indicators of … were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …
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The causal effect of agritourism on farm survival
Firgo, Matthias; Pennerstorfer, Dieter - 2023
We use two waves of census data with detailed farm characteristics for the total population of Austrian farms to examine the causal effect of agritourism on farm survival. To account for self-selection into agritourism, we use regional variation in tourism intensity that is exogenous to...
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Institutional barriers and job creation in Central and Eastern Europe
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Oberhofer, Harald; Vincelette, … - 2014
Using information from the Amadeus dataset and the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey, we provide an empirical investigation of the industry and firm-specific determinants of the intensive margin (i.e., within existing firms) job creation process in eleven Central and Eastern...
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The effect of discretionary accruals on firm growth : empirical evidence for SMEs from emerging Europe
Anton, Sorin Gabriel; Carp, Mihai - In: Journal of business economics and management 21 (2020) 4, pp. 1128-1148
The aim of the paper is to assess the effect of discretionary accruals on firm growth while controlling for firm characteristics and macroeconomic environment. Employing a large sample of 1.105 young and high-growth firms (gazelles) from 15 emerging European countries over the period 2006-2014,...
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Financial constraints on firm growth : the role of firm age in the ASEAN-6
Yee Ling Ng; Wei Theng Lau; Soh Wei Ni; Nazrul Hisyam … - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 27 (2024) 1, pp. 93-111
The paper assesses the moderating role of firm age in the relationship between financial constraints, as measured by the KZ index, and the WW index on three alternative measures of firm growth (Asset growth, ROA, and ROE) in the ASEAN-6 region. This study employs a sample of ASEAN-6 listed firms...
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Does firm size affect learning-by-exporting? : empirical evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-15
This study examines whether the relationship between exports and productivity growth differs across firm size. Using panel data from three Sub-Saharan African countries, I use propensity score matching procedure to examine this relationship. This study finds evidence of productivity differences...
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