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Chapter 35 Market Structure: Theory and Evidence
Sutton, John - In: Handbook of industrial organization : volume 3, (pp. 2301-2368). 2007
This chapter reviews the literature which has developed around the ‘bounds approach’ to market structure over the past fifteen years. The focus of this literature lies in explaining cross-industry differences in concentration, and in the size distribution of firms. One of the main ideas...
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The transmission of sectoral shocks across the innovation network
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Pu, Zhaoxin - 2020
Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries and technology fields in an economy. Industrial and trade policies, by contrast, tend to favor economic specialization through the promotion of selected sectors. In this paper...
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Decentralized environmental regulations and plant-level productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to …
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Lifestyle production : transformation from manufacturing to knowledge based production using innovation
Dilling-Hansen, Mogens; Jensen, Susanne - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 35-54
experienced a decline in employment and a positive development in productivity while maintaining a significant contribution to …
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Macroeconomic Reform and Technical Efficiency in Australian Manufacturing - A Stochastic Production Frontier Analysis
Karunaratne, Neil Dias - 2012
insights on the repercussions of the micro-economic reform policy agenda during the study period plagued by a productivity … slowdown and the productivity resurgence due to the emergence of the ‘new economy' and now the challenges to sharpen the … provide superior testable insights on productivity and technical inefficiency than the rival non-parametric Development (DEA …
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Valuation of Products and Transient Market Power of Firms
Rao, Ramamohan - 2020
Firms utilize non-price strategies to convey the value of their products to consumers. They may also take advantage of rivals market power reduces over time. This empirical study is an attempt to (a) verify whether strategies are developed to reveal the value of products, (b) estimate the...
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The Gender Gap in International Trade : Female-run Firms and the Exporter Productivity Premium
Krenz, Astrid - 2019
and society. With a new and comprehensive data set on manufacturing plants, I investigate the exporter productivity … premium of female-run firms in Germany. The results show that female-run firms gain a higher exporter-productivity premium than …
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The Gender Gap in International Trade : Female-Run Firms and the Exporter Productivity Premium
Krenz, Astrid - 2019
and society. With a new and comprehensive data set on manufacturing plants, I investigate the exporter productivity … premium of female-run firms in Germany. The results show that female-run firms gain a higher exporter-productivity premium than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871872
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Industrial Production Dynamics in Q3 2019 : Market Factors
Kaukin, Andrey - 2019
Based on the results of Q3 2019, the industrial production demonstrated growth which was facilitated by positive dynamics both in the primary and manufacturing sectors. At the same time, it is not absolutely certain that growth will continue in the long-term prospect. In the past few months,...
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When Firms and Industries Matter : Understanding the Sources of Productivity Growth
Lewrick, Ulf - 2014
This paper presents a framework to assess the relative importance of three key sources of productivity growth that …-industry reallocations are the most important source of growth in aggregate total factor productivity, reflecting in particular the … productivity growth of large, incumbent firms and the entry of new firms. That said, inter-industry specialisation and general …
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