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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....
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Using a large unbalanced panel data set of Portuguese manufacturing firms surviving over the period from 1990 to 2001, the purpose of this paper is to examine whether liquidity constraints faced by business firms affect firm growth. We use a GMM-system to estimate a dynamic panel data model of...
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The purpose of this research is to study and analyze the determinant factors of commercial banks’ interest margin in Indonesia, both internal factors (bank specific factors) and external factors. Internal factors are selected under this study consists of several aspects such as growth of the...
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We analyse the impact of FDI on market concentration for the Portuguese manufacturing industries in the 2006–2009 period. Using panel data estimation, and after controlling for other determinants of industry concentration (entry barriers, market size, and growth), we found a significant...
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We analyze the behavior of start-ups in e-commerce, namely on Austria's leading price-comparison-site, a multi-product environment with almost complete information. We use weekly panel data on price-quotes of digicams, Audio/HiFi-equipment and hardware. We furthermore use advanced estimation...
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We test the assumptions of trade-off theory (TOT) and pecking order theory (POT) regarding corporate leverage. The dependent variable being the debt ratio, we apply a linear model upon a balanced panel data-set of 2,370 French SMEs over the period 2002 - 2010. In accordance to TOT, trade credit...
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on productivity of the Russian industry that uses these services as intermediate consumption. Empirical analysis of the … 2.5–3 times larger due to liberalization. Modeling of the international service trade shows that services imports into … sector is communication services, and the least liberalized sector is information technology. This paper demonstrates that …
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selected services during the period 1994-2003. A number of hypotheses based on models of IIT for goods trade are tested. The … errors. The empirical results, in principle, show that South Africa-US IIT in the selected services is determined by factors … her IIT in unaffiliated services by minimising the differences with the US in income per capita, market size, FDI, and …
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trade in both goods and services, thus aiming to account for the most important channels of globalisation and dealing with … most modes of cross-border services supply. It first describes trends in trade, FDI and the four sets of policies using a … de niveaux adéquats d’équipements d’infrastructure. L’analyse, qui couvre l’IDE et les échanges de biens et de services …
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This paper seeks to shed some light on the relationship between individual performance and local context. We empirically address this question focusing on the employment growth rate of French manufacturing establishments geo-referenced at the employment area level, an economically consistent...
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