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Financing obstacles and growth: an analysis for euro area non-financial corporations
Coluzzi, Chiara; Ferrando, Annalisa; … - 2009
This paper investigates whether financial obstacles, and, more generally, financial pressure faced by firms, significantly affect firm growth. For this purpose, we use an unbalanced panel of about 1,000,000 observations for around 155,000 non-financial corporations in five euro area countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605043
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Financing obstacles and growth : an analysis for euro area non-financial corporations
Coluzzi, Chiara; Ferrando, Annalisa; … - 2009
This paper investigates whether financial obstacles, and, more generally, financial pressure faced by firms, significantly affect firm growth. For this purpose, we use an unbalanced panel of about 1,000,000 observations for around 155,000 non-financial corporations in five euro area countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003826608
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Gibrat's law and the firm size : firm growth relationship in Italian services
Piergiovanni, Roberta; Santarelli, Enrico; Klomp, Luuk; … - 2002
are independent of firm size can be rejected for the services, as it has been for manufacturing, also in the case of Italy … remaining three business groups and for the industry as a whole. These mixed results concerning Gibrat's Law in the services are … consistent with the hypothesis that the dynamics of industrial organisation for services may not simply mirror that for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327542
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Gibrat's Law and the Firm Size / Firm Growth Relationship in Italian Services
Piergiovanni, R.; Santarelli, E.; Klomp, L.; Thurik, A.R. - 2002
are independent of firm size can be rejected for the services, as it has been for manufacturing, also in the case of Italy … remaining three business groups and for the industry as a whole. These mixed results concerning Gibrat's Law in the services are … consistent with the hypothesis that the dynamics of industrial organisation for services may not simply mirror that for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325020
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Does Gibrat's Law Hold? Evidence from Canadian Retail and Manufacturing Firms
Petrunia, Robert J. - 2006
This paper investigates the validity of Gibrat's Law holding for firms in manufacturing and retail trade sectors. The object is to expand our knowledge of Gibrat's Law to include non-manufacturing firms. A unique longitudinal firm-level database, which contains information on Canadian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059634
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Trade costs in services : firm survival, firm growth and implied changes in employment
Christen, Elisabeth; Pfaffermayr, Michael; Wolfmayr, Yvonne - 2019
the Austrian services sector. We apply a two-part model of firm survival (exit) and firm growth. Separate regressions for … elasticities. Falling trade costs in the Austrian services sector over the period 2000 to 2014 resulted in net job creation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145596
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Trade costs in services : firm survival, firm growth and implied changes in employment
Christen, Elisabeth; Pfaffermayr, Michael; Wolfmayr, Yvonne - 2019
the Austrian services sector. We apply a two-part model of firm survival (exit) and firm growth. Separate regressions for … elasticities. Falling trade costs in the Austrian services sector over the period 2000 to 2014 resulted in net job creation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157327
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What Drives Firm Growth? Comparing Factors of Intensive and Extensive Firm Growth
Zajc, Katja - 2013
This paper compares the determinants of firm's extensive and intensive growth based on population data of manufacturing firms registered in Slovenia in the 1994-2003 period. The former is measured in terms of employment and the latter is defined in terms of total factor productivity. After...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085280
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High Growth Firms in Employment and Productivity : Dynamic Interactions and the Role of Financial Constraints?
Guillamón, Cristina - 2017
Using a panel of Spanish firms over the period 2002-2012, we investigate the interactions between high growth episodes in terms of size and productivity. We find that high growth in productivity (size) increases the likelihood of high growth in size (productivity). However, the effect from size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956537
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Inward Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial Restructuring : Micro Evidence - The Slovenian Firms’ Growth Model
Zajc, Katja; Kumar, Andrej - 2013
We examine the impact of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on the growth of local firms in terms of employment and total factor productivity (TFP) for the Slovenian manufacturing sector in the 1994-2003 period. The theoretically predicted channels through which inward FDI affects the firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157544