This paper presents a theory of establishment size dynamics based on the accumulation of industry-specific human capital that simultaneously rationalizes the economy- wide facts on establishment growth rates, exit rates, and size distributions. The theory predicts that establishment growth and...

How do investors respond to predictable shifts in profitability? We consider how demographic shifts affect profits and returns across industries. Cohort size fluctuations produce forecastable demand changes for age-sensitive sectors, such as toys, bicycles, beer, life insurance, and nursing...

Deregulation in the airline industry has forced full service airlines to change their strategies in order to respond to increasing challenges. In this paper, an econometric analysis of the possible determinants of economic performance of full service airlines after liberalisation has been...

Technology effects, business process development, and productivity growth are considered in the context of a single company: Wal-Mart. The starting point is the 2001 McKinsey Global Institute report, which finds that over 1995-2000, a quarter of U.S. productivity growth is attributable to the...

En 2006, l’activité industrielle s’accélère, soutenue par les PMI. Elles réduisent leur taux d’endettement alors que les grandes entreprises augmentent le leur ; les holdings portent désormais plus du tiers de l’endettement bancaire des groupes industriels.

This publication presents analysis of handling regular business surveys of Russian industrial enterprises, information capacity of such surveys and analytical findings. Analysis summarizes 18 years experience of IEP’s surveys: from the choice of envelopes for sending questionnaires to obtained...

This paper is a continuation of the research «Competition in the Russian Industry (1995–2002)», exercised and published by Gaidar Institute in 2003. Monitoring, based on the business surveys’ fi ndings enabled to trace the development of competition during the pre crisis period of rapid...

Im Rahmen des ifo Konjunkturtests bittet das ifo Institut die Befragungsteilnehmer monatlich, eine Einschätzung zur Kreditvergabebereitschaft der Banken abzugeben. Aus den Meldungen der Unternehmen wird die Kredithürde für die gewerbliche Wirtschaft Deutschlands berechnet. Diese gibt den...