observations that can lead to erroneous conclusions when using the classic estimators; this is a quite unique approach in panel … least trimmed squares (LTS). In its second part we apply this method on the panel data of 28 countries in 2002–2008 testing …

individual enterprises' TFP. We based the estimations on an unbalanced panel dataset containing about 1 329 106 firms yearly …

" LPM (Desjardins, 2012). Results: Although no direct linear correlation could be substantiated between the OCAI …

, preferably, also on firm age. -- Small and medium-sized enterprises ; growth analysis ; panel analysis ; system GMM estimation …

private firms in Germany. The core contention is that a firm's financial position contributes to its access to external … restrictive access to external sources of funds. The application of a non-linear panel threshold model allows us to group firms …