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Firm performance and trade with low-income countries : evidence from China
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg; Wang, Luhang - 2014
evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm-productivity: i) only the most productive firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010401747
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Exports, international investment, and plant performance : evidence from a non-parametric test
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003
This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439152
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The nexus between business-investment climate and firm performance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region
Giovanis, Eleftherios; Özdamar Giovanis, Öznur - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 7 (2022) 4, pp. 257-285
productivity, through the creation of an institutional environment, where the state provides high-quality public goods. This study …- and the firm performance, which is measured by the firm's value-added, the labour productivity and the total factor … productivity To reduce the endogeneity coming from possible reverse causality and the perceptions about the business climate, an …
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Start-ups, long- and short-term survivors and their effect on regional employment growth
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - 2009
We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and...
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Are more start-ups really better? : quantity and quality of new businesses and their effect on regional development
Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2009
Empirical analyses suggest that the employment creating effect of start-ups is highest in regions with a low level of new business formation and that an increase in the regional start-up rate beyond a certain level may lead to negative employment effect. In explaining these results, we assume...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887125
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Expanding microenterprise credit access : using randomized supply decisions to estimate the impacts in Manila
Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2009
Microcredit seeks to promote business growth and improve well-being by expanding access to credit. We use a field experiment and follow-up survey to measure impacts of a credit expansion for microentrepreneurs in Manila. The effects are diffuse, heterogeneous, and surprising. Although there is...
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Multinationales as stabilizers? : Economic crisis, access to finance, and employment growth
Álvarez, Roberto; Görg, Holger - 2011
This paper examines the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile. We find that employment in manufacturing plants has been drastically reduced during the economic crisis. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009006622
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Eat, Drink, Firms, Government : An Investigation of Corruption from Entertainment and Travel Costs of Chinese Firms
Cai, Hongbin - 2010
overall has a significantly negative effect on firm productivity, but we also find that some components of the ETC have …
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Hold Your Enemies Closer : In Search of Positive Impacts of Horizontal Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Firms
Lu, Yi - 2009
Existing studies have often failed to find positive impacts of horizontal FDI on domestic firms. We argue that the two effects underpinning the impacts of horizontal FDI (i.e., the positive spillover effect and the negative competition effect) have different degrees of attenuation with distance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155247
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The Relationship between Strategic Resources and Business Performance
Muharram, Sitti Syamsiar - 2017
Objective – The paper aims to develop a conceptual framework to study the relationship between strategic resources and business performance.Methodology/Technique – Reviews of published works to explore the concept of strategic resources and business performance.Findings – The decisions to...
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