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Technology portfolio and market value
Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper discusses the impact of a firm's technology portfolio on its market value. Two concepts are used to characterize a firm's portfolio: the number of technological fields and the degree of relatedness within the portfolio characterized by the amount of joint occurrences of patents in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726020
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Allocative efficiency measurement revisited : do we really need input prices?
Badunenko, Oleg (contributor); Fritsch, Michael (contributor) - 2006
The traditional approach to measuring allocative efficiency is based on input prices, which are rarely known at the firm level. This paper proposes a new approach to measure allocative efficiency which is based on the output-oriented distance to the frontier in a profit - technical efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314897
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Trade and variety in a model of endogenous product differentiation
Lorz, Oliver; Wrede, Matthias - 2009
This paper sets up a model of endogenous product differentiation to analyze the variety effects of international trade. In our model multi-product firms decide not only about the number of varieties they supply but also about the degree of horizontal differentiation between these varieties....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003849385
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A general framework to evaluate economic efficiency with an application to British SME
Pru°ša, Jan - 2009
This article formalises the idea of money-metric production frontiers, which we propose as a general framework for nonparametric evaluation of economic efficiency. As we show in our methodological discussion, this improves the flexibility and economic interpretation of our model. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929600
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Mergers and acquisitions - the standing of theory in the quest for better institutions and policy
Jensen, Camilla - 2010
suffers among other from significant aggregation problems between the micro (firm performance) and macro level (economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973902
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Do some firms persistently outperform?
Capasso, Marco; Cefis, Elena; Frenken, Koen - 2009 - This version: October 2009
This study analyses persistence in growth rates of the entire population of Dutch manufacturing firms. Previous literature on firm growth rates shows that extreme growth events are likely to be negatively correlated over time. A rebound effect following an extreme growth event questions the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732400
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Trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms : the role of country asymmetries
Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2011 - This version: December 17, 2010
This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008822904
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The impact of innovation activities on firm performance using a multi-stage model : evidence from the community innovation survey 4
Hoshi, Iraj; Stojcic, Nebojsa - 2010
The impact of innovation on firm performance has been a matter of significant interest to economists and policy makers … performance on domestic and foreign markets, this relationship has not been supported unambiguously by empirical work. Innovative … activities of firms influence their performance not necessarily directly but through the production of useful innovations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008655685
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Entrepreneurial spawning and firm characteristics
Habib, Michel Antoine; Hege, Ulrich; Mella-Barral, Pierre - 2011
We analyze the implications of entrepreneurial spawning for a variety of firm characteristics such as size, focus, profitability, and innovativeness. We examine the dynamics of spawning over time. Our model accounts for much of the empirical evidence relating to the relation between spawning and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009009017
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Trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms : the role of country asymmetries
Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2010
This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314284