Die ifo Investorenrechnung ist ein umfangreiches Werkzeug zur Untersuchung wirtschaftlicher Entwicklungstendenzen und Verschiebungen der Investitionsstrukturen in den Wirtschaftsbereichen Deutschlands. Unter Verwendung einer Vielzahl von Datenquellen liefert sie verdichtete Investitionsmatrizen...

Die ifo Investorenrechnung ist ein umfangreiches Werkzeug zur Untersuchung wirtschaftlicher Entwicklungstendenzen und Verschiebungen der Investitionsstrukturen in den Wirtschaftsbereichen Deutschlands. Unter Verwendung einer Vielzahl von Datenquellen liefert sie verdichtete Investitionsmatrizen...

This paper explores the effect of natural resource dependence on market concentration of imports. Using a new panel database for importing firms in developing and emerging market economies, the paper shows that higher natural resource dependence is associated with larger market concentration of...

The intellectual breakthrough contributed by the new growth theory was the recognition that investments in knowledge and human capital endogenously generate economic growth through the spillover of knowledge. Endogenous growth theory does not explain how or why spillovers occur. The missing link...

Prognosen der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung auf regionaler Ebene sind bisher eher selten in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur und in der Praxis vorzufinden. Dies ist vor allem auf das Fehlen von Quartalsdaten und der nur wenigen potenziellen Indikatoren auf regionaler Ebene zurückzuführen. Der...

Over the last two decades EU countries experienced diverging productivity growthdevelopments. By examining the sources of EU countries growth drivers on the sectorallevel, the paper takes a new look on the influence of innovations. While standard neoclassicalNon-ICT capital deepening turns out...

This paper presents a broad set of empirical regularities about selection and market shares reallocation in manufacturing industries of France, Germany, UK and USA. We first disentangle the contribution to industry-level productivity growth of within-firm productivity changes and between-firms...

This article explores the dynamics of market selection by investigating of the relationships linking productivity, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998 - 2007. First, we find that productivity variations, rather than...

This paper investigates the impact of ownership type on the entire growth rate distributional mass of Chinese firms, using a conditional estimation approach of the Asymmetric Exponential Power (AEP) density that goes beyond simple location-shift analysis. We first find a Chinese growth puzzle,...

This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integration affects firm size and efficiency, norm enforcement, and aggregate economic performance. When economic integration is low and...