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...

This paper investigates the factors that influence the change in passenger ski-lift transports between a normal winter and an anomalously mild winter based on individual lift and aggregate ski-area data. Special focus is placed on the return on investments in new ski lifts. Using endogenous...

This paper analyses the effect of innovation on the well-established productivity-export association in the literature. Here, we argue that actively innovative firms have a higher productivity, which make them more likely to become exporters. Moreover, exporting firms learn from their trading...

Focusing on the characteristics of destinations, this paper pursues to identify the role of spatial spillovers in driving location choices of manufacturing and services' firms. With this objective a spatial conditional logit framework is defined, allowing for neighbourhood-related spatial...

The empirical analysis of firm growth is a classical field in industrial economics. Insights into the determinants of firm growth are particularly interesting for mature markets. A typical example of a mature market is the lodging industry in high-income countries, characterised by a high degree...

The study of the determinants of innovation processes has received great attention in both the economics and the business literature. However, only few contributions have proposed a comprehensive framework able to bring together different but not mutually exclusive research approaches. This...

It is widely acknowledged that young ventures and fast growing firms have a strong impact on economic growth and employment creation. It is not only entrepreneurial dynamics associated to entry and exit of new ventures, but also the ability of firms to survive and grow, that is important for...

This paper adds to the scarce empirical evidence related to the impact of climate change on the manufacturing sector. To study the effect of temperature on energy use and CO2 emissions daily temperature information from 11.000 German municipalities are combined with the census of the...

This paper evaluates the impact of accessibility on the productivity of Spanish manufacturing firms. We suggest the use of accessibility indicators to workers and commodities, integrating transport, land use, and individual components in their measurement, and computing real distances or...

This paper empirically analyzes the agglomeration-related productivity premium at the enterprise level of the manufacturing industry in Russia. A settlement is counted as part of an urban agglomeration in two cases: that of a large, central city and that of a town located within 50 kilometers of...