We examine the impact of bank competition and institutional factors on net firm entry in a sample of European … manufacturing industries over the 1995-2006 period. Taking into account industry differences in the need for external finance, we … find that bank competition helps firm entry. In addition, better institutions - especially legal structure and property …

&D investments, and (2) the dominant service content of production in the modern manufacturing firm. It pictures the firm as a …

distributions during the process of transition. These facts are based on the data for all Slovenian manufacturing firms active …, firm productivity rankings changed substantially. Smaller firms, which were initially more productive, exhibited lower …This paper compiles a set of stylized facts on the evolution of firm size and labor and total factor productivity …

The significance of the manufacturing sector for the economies of both the European Union and the euro area has … particularly evident in a comparison between Germany and France. The manufacturing industry in Germany was able to maintain its … rapid deindustrialization in France: here, value added from the manufacturing sector as a percentage of the overall economy …

The significance of the manufacturing sector for the economies of both the European Union and the euro area has … particularly evident in a comparison between France and Germany. The manufacturing industry in Germany was able to maintain its … rapid deindustrialization in France: here, value added from the manufacturing sector as a percentage of the overall economy …

This paper uses newly available firm-level tax data to evaluate the market structure in South African manufacturing … sectors in the period 2010-12. To describe the market structure we compute markups for South African manufacturing firms and … concentration indexes for 4-digit manufacturing sectors. We find both significant markups and significant concentration across most …

This paper uses newly available firm-level tax data to evaluate the market structure in South African manufacturing … sectors in the period 2010-12. To describe the market structure we compute markups for South African manufacturing firms and … concentration indexes for 4-digit manufacturing sectors. We find both significant markups and significant concentration across most …

According to Gibrat' Law of Proportionate Effect, the growth rate of a given firm is independent of its size at the … taking account of both the entry process and the role of survival/failure in reshaping a given population of firms over time …. It does so by focusing on the entire population of firms (including newborn ones) in the Italian Radio, TV …

, imitation and inventing around other firm`s products is possible, so we examine the size and duration of benefits to IP …, increase firm productivity. Knowledge has public good characteristics of non-depletability and non-excludability. Even with IP … hypothesis against the alternative of depletability, where innovative intensity relative to the size of the firm matters. The …