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Legal origin and size effects in European listed firms
Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Högberg, Andreas - 2010 - Work in progress
This paper investigates the impact of legal tradition and firm size on investment performance for firms in 16 European countries. Europe as a region is of special interest in this sense since the legal systems differs widely within a concentrated geographical area. Anglo Saxon, German, French as...
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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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Regional characteristics and the survival of new firms
Karlsson, Charlie; Klaesson, Johan; Öner, Özge - 2015
There is an abundant literature on industrial ecology aiming at explaining the survival propensity of recently started firms. The majority of the contributions concentrate on the characteristics of the entrepreneur, the new firm or the industry. Only a small minority of the existing studies...
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Regional economic growth and SMEs in Brazil : a spatial analysis
Cravo, Túlio - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between economic growth and the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector for a panel of 503 Brazilian micro-regions for the period 1980-2004 using panel spatial econometrics. It investigates the importance of the SME sector size measured by the share of the...
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How important are agglomeration effects for plant performance? : empirical evidence for Germany
Fuchs, Michaela; Ludewig, Oliver - 2010 - Preliminary version
to influence productivity. To this end we estimate plant-level production functions augmented by regional characteristics …
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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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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 … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …
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The role of family workers' reluctance to work on away-farms in determining the farm size and productivity relationship
Ayaz, Muhammad; Mughal, Mazhar - In: Revue d'économie du développement 31 (2022) 2/3, pp. 119-125
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Are firms in business groups more productive? : an empirical analysis based on German micro-level data with a special emphasis on the roles of regional and sectoral diversity
Biewen, Elena; Koch, Andreas - 2012 - Preliminiary version
The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity … Bureau van Dijk's MARKUS database and from the Cost Structure Panel we assess differences in productivity (1) between … groups, region, sector and size of firms, it is shown that group members have a productivity premium between 6 and 28 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508687
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Firm heterogeneity in productivity across Europe : what explains what?
Aiello, Francesco; Ricotta, Fernanda - 2014
There is a substantial heterogeneity in productivity when comparing individual firms. However, even when heterogeneity …
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