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The importance of measuring dispersion in firm-level outcomes : ignoring the large variation in firm-level outcomes can create misunderstandings about the consequences of many poli...

Syverson, Chad - 2014

Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven by large reallocations of inputs and outputs across firms (churning) within industries and markets. These differences in firm-level outcomes and the associated turnover of firms...

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The births, lives, and deaths of corporations in late Imperial Russia

Gregg, Amanda; Nafziger, Steven - 2020

Enterprise creation, destruction, and evolution support the transition to modern economic growth, yet these processes are poorly understood in industrializing contexts. We investigate Imperial Russia's industrial development at the firm-level by examining entry, exit, and persistence of...

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Macroeconomic development and the life cycle of the German automobile industry, 1886-1939

Krüger, Jens; Rhein, Kristina von - 2015

Empirical work studying the industry life cycle highlights the role of knowledge in various forms on the durations firms survive in the industry. This research leaves open the influence of historical events, which are reflected in macroeconomic factors like income, inflation, exports and...

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Exports, international investment, and plant performance : evidence from a non-parametric test

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003

This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...

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The impact of investment in knowledge-based capital on productivity : firm-level evidence from Ireland

Di Ubaldo, Mattia; Siedschlag, Iulia - 2017

a dynamic econometric model estimated with micro-data from Ireland over the period 2006-2012. We use broad measures of …This paper examines the impact of investment in knowledge-based capital on firm productivity. The analysis is based on … and above other factors, an increase in investment in knowledge-based capital of 10 per cent increases firm productivity …

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The impact of investment in innovation on productivity : firm-level evidence from Ireland

Di Ubaldo, Mattia; Siedschlag, Iulia - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between investment in innovation and productivity across firms in Ireland. We … relationships between investment in innovation, innovation outputs and productivity. Our results indicate that innovation is … positively linked to productivity. This result holds for all types of innovation and for both R&D and non-R&D expenditures. The …

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