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Industry concentration in Europe and North America

Bajgar, Matej; Berlingieri, Giuseppe; Calligaris, Sara; … - 2019

This report presents new evidence on industry concentration trends in Europe and in North America. It uses two novel … data sources: representative firm-level concentration measures from the OECD MultiProd project, and business …-group-level concentration measures using matched Orbis-Worldscope-Zephyr data. Based on the MultiProd data, it finds that between 2001 and 2012 …

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A snapshot of China's service sector

Molnár, Margit; Wang, Wei - 2015

The share of the tertiary sector in China’s value added has increased steadily, overtaking the share of the secondary sector in 2013. With increasing incomes, the share of services is expected to grow further as at higher incomes a larger share of income is spent on services. In addition to...

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Legal reform, contract enforcement and firm size in Mexico

Dougherty, Sean M. - 2013

Legal systems provide the basic institutions for firms and markets to operate. Their quality can have important consequences on the size distribution of firms, who rely on them for contract enforcement. This paper uses the variation in legal system quality across states in Mexico to examine the...

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Public policy and resource allocation : evidence from firms in OECD countries

Andrews, Dan; Cingano, Federico - 2012

The correlation between a firm’s size and its productivity level varies considerably across OECD countries, suggesting that some countries are more successful at channelling resources to high productivity firms than others. Accordingly, we examine the extent to which regulations affecting...

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The price-link in the German natural gas market : the development of the oil price-link and alternative price mechanisms

Saatmann, Stefan J. - 2013

This SIMAT Working Paper deals with an intensively discussed topic in the German natural gas economy: The price-link in natural gas contracts. Because of opposite price developments of the energy commodities such as oil, coal or natural gas, the traditionally used oil price-link is facing a...

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Cross-country evidence on start-up dynamics

Calvino, Flavio; Criscuolo, Chiara; Menon, Carlo - 2015

The report provides a description of start-up dynamics exploiting the richness of the recently collected DynEmp v.2 database. The contribution of new firms in terms of new jobs to the existing workforce can be expressed as a combination of four different elements: the start-up rate; the average...

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Moving towards a more dynamic business sector in Spain

González Pandiella, Alberto - 2014

Policy efforts to revitalise entrepreneurship and investment in Spain are key to generating growth and new jobs. The government has a substantial reform program to make it easier to do business in Spain, which should in some cases be deepened. Boosting economic growth requires a new generation...

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Trade liberalisation and product mix adjustments : evidence from South African firms

Fall, Falilou; Längle, Katharina - 2020

Theoretical and empirical studies on multi-product firms have shown that firms adjust their product mix in response to trade liberalisation. This paper uses the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and National Treasury (NT) firm-level panel to assess the response of South African firms to trade...

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Cross-country comparison of farm size distribution

Bokuševa, Raušan; Kimura, Shingo - 2016

This report summarises selected measures of the farm size distribution for fourteen OECD countries: Canada, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom (England) and the United States over the period 1995-2010. The farm size...

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International tax planning, competition and market structure

Sorbe, Stéphane; Johansson, Åsa - 2017

new indicator of industry concentration, the empirical analysis also shows that industries with a strong presence of tax …

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