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Evolution and Sources of Manufacturing Productivity Growth : Evidence from a Panel of European Countries
Giannangeli, Silvia; Salvador, Ramon Gomez - 2021
The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … growth and firm-specific factors such as size, age and capital intensity across countries. The paper uses annual account data … over the period 1993-2003 from Amadeus dataset (Bureau van Dijk) for a balanced panel of manufacturing firms. In line with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316512
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Death on the Stock Exchange the Fate of the 1948 Population of Large UK Quoted Companies, 1948–2018
Meeks, Geoff - 2019
This paper provides a long-term demographic analysis of the principal members of the population of companies quoted on the UK stock exchanges in 1948. Motivated by theories of natural selection and of corporate governance, it traces the survival records of the 1948 population over the biblical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866207
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in the United Kingdom
Maher, Maria - 2005
This paper assesses what role product market competition and regulatory reforms may have played in the performance of the British economy over the past decade. Competitive pressures appear to be relatively strong in the United Kingdom, with regulations inhibiting competition and barriers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446749
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The firm size distribution and inter-industry diversification
Hutchinson, John; Konings, Jozef; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2009
We show that the stylized facts of the Firm Size Distribution (FSD) by age cohorts, as shown in Cabral and Mata (2003 …), bind within 4-digit manufacturing industries in the UK and Belgium. As in Klepper and Thompson (2006) and Sutton (1998), we … explore whether time to build a portfolio of products is a mechanism that relates age to firm size. While inter industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870894
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The productivity puzzle in business services
Kritikos, Alexander; Schiersch, Alexander; Stiel, Caroline - 2021
In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by micro and small firms, declined by 40 percent between 1995 and 2014. This productivity decline also holds true for professional services in other European countries. Using a German firm-level dataset of 700,000...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012596631
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Expected Inflation and Welfare : The Role of Consumer Search
Sara-Zaror, Francisca - 2022
In standard macroeconomic models, the costs of inflation are tightly linked to the price dispersion of identical goods. Therefore, understanding how price dispersion empirically relates to inflation is crucial for welfare analysis. In this paper, I study the relationship between steady-state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030672
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in the United Kingdom
Maher, Maria; Wise, Michael - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005
This paper assesses what role product market competition and regulatory reforms may have played in the performance of the British economy over the past decade. Competitive pressures appear to be relatively strong in the United Kingdom, with regulations inhibiting competition and barriers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045973
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Not Backward : Comparative Labour Productivity In British And Russian Manufacturing, Circa 1908
Lychakov, Nikita; Saprykin, Dmitrii; Vanteeva, Nadia - 2020
Using data from official manufacturing censuses, we compare labour productivity in Great Britain and the Russian Empire … view that, at the turn of the 20th century, Russian manufacturing was economically underdeveloped …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090216
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Intangible assets and investments at the sector level : empirical evidence for Germany
Crass, Dirk; Licht, Georg; Peters, Bettina - 2014
varies between 0.17 (construction) and 0.59 (manufacturing) percentage points. In manufacturing, financial and business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010385066
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Intangible Assets and Investments at the Sector Level – Empirical Evidence for Germany
Crass, Dirk - 2014
varies between 0.17 (construction) and 0.59 (manufacturing) percentage points. In manufacturing, financial and business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049643