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business size in an industry fosters growth in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). The results suggest that the overall … effects of firm size on TFP growth are negative. …
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Firms, especially Chinese manufacturing firms, invest significant resources in innovation activities to sustain their … innovation efficiency and firm performance with a sample of 12,020 Chinese manufacturing firms for the period 2005-2007. The … results show that most Chinese manufacturing firms are inefficient in R&D activities. Competition forces firms to focus on the …
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the Chinese manufacturing sector. We use a potential market size measure driven only by changes in the Chinese income …This paper investigates the effect of market size on innovation activities across different durable good industries in … distribution which is exogenous to changes in prices and qualities of durable goods to instrument for actual future market size …
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This paper explores a panel data set matching establishment-based production statistics from Japan’s Census of Manufacturers with wholesale price indices from the Bank of Japan, and Herfindahl indices from the Japan Fair Trade Commission. The data include annual observations over the period...
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This paper explores a panel data set matching establishment-based production statistics from Japan's Census of Manufacturers with wholesale price indices from the Bank of Japan, and Herfindahl indices from the Japan Fair Trade Commission. The data include annual observations over the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159744
When firms make decisions about which product to manufacture at a more disaggregated level than observed in the data, measured firm productivity will reflect both true differences in productivity and non-random decisions about which products to manufacture. This paper examines a model of...
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We use a unique cross-section survey of manufacturing firms from four European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain …
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We use a unique cross-section survey of manufacturing firms from four European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain …
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This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous framework at the industry level of aggregation. We use a model in which R&D affects both, demand and cost conditions. An optimization process leads to optimal industry R&D expenditure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446652
This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous framework at the industry level of aggregation. We use a model in which R&D affects both, demand and cost conditions. An optimization process leads to optimal industry R&D expenditure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428421