manufacturing sectors across 64 countries. A robust finding is that bureaucratic and costly entry regulations tend to hamper … also associated with a larger average firm size. Conversely, credit information registries are associated with lower price …-cost margin and smaller average firm size in industries that rely heavily on external finance-consistent with access to finance …

decomposition is shown in a model featuring heterogeneous multiproduct firms, oligopolistic competition and free firm entry. When …I investigate changes in product scope, the number of products that a firm offers, over the business cycle and … purchases for 2007- 2014, I find that firm product scope is an important margin of adjustment. The changes at this margin are …

innovation efficiency and firm performance with a sample of 12,020 Chinese manufacturing firms for the period 2005-2007. The …Firms, especially Chinese manufacturing firms, invest significant resources in innovation activities to sustain their … results show that most Chinese manufacturing firms are inefficient in R&D activities. Competition forces firms to focus on the …

Indian manufacturing industries covering the period 1995-2017. Evidence suggests that firm performance improves as …This paper investigates the relation between product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance in … competition increases. Besides, results depict heterogeneity in the conditional determinants of firm performance between …

In this paper we empirically explore the make-or-buy decisions of peripheral services in manufacturing plants using … detailed information on a data set from a new plant-level survey from 926 plants distributed in all manufacturing industries in …. These findings are robust to controlling for whether plants belong to single-plant or multi-plant firms. This result is …

We study the strategic positioning of Austrian manufacturing firms that face competition from emerging markets as … opposed to firms that do not. Using a unique sample of large Austrian manufacturing, we find that emerging market competitors … are not always a force majeure, but the result of the firms' international activity. Existing strengths and weaknesses are …

We analyze the strategic behavior of firms when demand is determined by a rule of thumb behavior of consumers. We … as suggested in consumer research. On this basis, we investigate monopoly and competition between firms, described via an … contains Nash equilibria. We prove that the equilibrium price of the weakest active firm tends to marginal cost as the number …