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Regional cluster policy : key features and critical issues

Pessoa, Argentino - 2012

Nowadays, policy makers in charge of designing innovation policies, especially at the regional level, are more and more adopting the cluster approach either with a view to accelerate the existing clusters or for providing the basis for the emergence of new ones. In fact, not only as a...

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Business networks, social capital and the productivity of creative industries : a case study of Indonesia : ERSA Vienna, 56th Congress, 23-26 August 2016

Fahmi, Fikri Zul - 2016

This study examines the role of social and professional networks in the productivity of creative firms in Indonesia. In so doing, mixed methods are employed, including multilevel modelling as well as qualitative analysis, which is also performed to elaborate further on the process in which...

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Was easy access to credit an obstacle to the competitiveness of Spanish SMEs?

García Tabuenca, Antonio; Crecente Romero, Fernando Javier - 2014

In the expansionary phase of the economy (1995-2007) and, particularly after the Euro introduction, credit to the business sector increased significantly in Europe. According to surveys of the EC-Flash Eurobarometer (2005), over 77% of SMEs claimed to have appropriate funding levels. A number of...

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Firm heterogeneity in productivity across Europe : what explains what?

Aiello, Francesco; Ricotta, Fernanda - 2014

matters in determining firms' performance. In fact, multilevel regressions combine different levels of data aggregation and …

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Increasing the value of Telecom operators with a single EU market

Serrano Calle, Silvia - 2015

In this paper we analyze the risks the European Telecom market is experiencing. Many economic disincentives to investing in infrastructure are related to the fact that market value of the companies can be lower than expected. Next Generation Networks (NGN) deployment require great amounts of...

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Whatever next? : export market choices of New Zealand firms

Fabling, Richard; Grimes, Arthur L.; Sanderson, Lynda - 2010

firm performance measures with detailed data on merchandise trade. We focus our enquiry not on the broad question of what … results are robust to the inclusion of other determinants of exporting, including the macroeconomic performance of destination … countries, exchange rate movements, and the past performance of the exporting firm. …

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Types of FDI and determinants of affiliate size : the classification makes the difference

Hecht, Veronika; Moritz, Michael; Noska, Patricia; … - 2019

This paper focuses on the role of classifying types of foreign direct investment (FDI) for analyzing the determinants of cross-border investment relationships. We base our investigation on a newly established firm-level data set of German multinational firms and their affiliates in the Czech...

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Agony of choice : trading off stability and competition in the banking markets

Hellwig, Michael; Laser, Falk Hendrik - 2019 - Preliminary version

We investigate the trade-off between financial stability and competition policy by focusing on the merger of ABN AMRO and Fortis Bank NL in the Dutch retail banking market. The financial crisis delayed the completion of the merger giving rise to anti-competitive behavior in the transitory...

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What drives the location choice of new manufacturing plants in Germany?

Krenz, Astrid - 2020

Almost 30 years after German reunification, a persistent gap in different firm performance measures exists between East …

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Import competition and firm productivity : evidence from German manufacturing

Braeuer, Richard; Mertens, Matthias; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2020

This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm-level panel data from German manufacturing. We find that only import competition from high-income countries is associated with positive incentives for firms to invest in...

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