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The Effect of Tariff Reductions on Firm Size and Firm Turnover in Canadian Manufacturing
Gu, Wulong - 2009
tariff reductions had a positive and significant effect on the exit rate of manufacturing firms. The estimated impact of the … tariff cuts was an increase in the exit rate of 0.7 to 2.0 percentage points for the most affected industries over the 1988 … exit of least efficient firms, thereby contributing to productivity growth …
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Trade and profitability: is there an export premium? : evidence from Italian manufacturing firms
Grazzi, Marco - 2009
Using firm level data this study investigates the relation between export activity and firm’s profitability. The paper shows that, contrary to other performance indicators such as productivity, exporting activity is not systematically associated to higher firm’s profitability. This is shown...
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The Effects of Outward FDI and Export on Firm Productivity in Emerging Markets : Evidence from Matching Approach
Zhou, Chao - 2021
This study disentangles the effects of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and export on the productivity of Chinese manufacturing firms by using the propensity score matching approach with multiple treatments. Results show that just OFDI has a significant positive impact on firm...
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Impact of Relationship Quality on Firm's Export Profitability : A Study of SMEs in Gujarat
Singh, Shivangi; Chugan, Pawan K. - 2014
The appearance of relationship quality paradigm in the field of international business has resulted in growing need to manage, develop and evaluate relationships amongst the exporters and importers besides influencing the profitability of the firm in the long-run. In the same light, this study...
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New-firm survival : industry versus firm effects
Audretsch, David B.; Houweling, Patrick; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 1997
Recent studies show that the likelihood of survival differs significantly across firms. Both firm and industry …-specific characteristics shape new-firm survival during the first years subsequent to entry. However, in the longer run, most of the industry … factors have little influence on the likelihood of survival, but firm-specific characteristics still exert a considerable …
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Intangible Investment and Human Resources. The New WIFO Taxonomy of Manufacturing Industries
Peneder, Michael - 1999
marketing or innovation. The second taxonomy discriminates between industries according to their employment of skilled labour …
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Misallocation and manufacturing TFP in the market liberalization period of Bolivia
Machicado, Carlos Gustavo; Birbuet, Juan Cristóbal - 2009
This paper analyzes productivity levels, dispersion and growth in the Bolivian Manufacturing Sector during the Market Liberalization Period: 1988-2001. These years are characterized first, by a period of macroeconomic stabilization and 1st Generation Reforms (1988-1993), second, by a period of...
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Competition and the relative productivity of large and small firms
Symeonidis, George - 2010
Using a comprehensive dataset on the incidence of price-fixing across British manufacturing industries in the 1950s, I compare collusive and competitive industries and find evidence of a negative relationship between collusion and the labour productivity of larger firms relative to smaller...
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Mozambique's industrialization
Cruz, António; Guambe, Dina; Marrengula, Constantino Pedro - 2014
After the Second World War, Mozambique went through a series of transformations, from an incipient industrializing colonial society to an independent country with a central planned economy, plus a regional and internal war, and finally from 1994 onwards, a multi-party democracy with a mix of...
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Intangible investment and human resources : the new WIFO taxonomy of manufacturing industries
Peneder, Michael - 1999
marketing or innovation. The second taxonomy discriminates between industries according to their employment of skilled labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491582