the first time the negative impact of cronyism on economic growth. In the early 2000s, a policy shift in Egypt led to the … 1996 and 2006 experienced lower aggregate employment growth during the period than those that did not. A wide array of …

growth rates or survival time of manufacturing firms. Taken together, these results show that innovation is not uniformly … efficiency, labor productivity, and growth. We also include imports into the knowledge production function, because catching up … survival. We find that both types of knowledge input - R&D and imports - strongly determine innovation. Innovations yield the …

firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in findings that aresufficiently consistent as to … therelationships between firm age and size on the one hand, and survival and growth on the other may, infact, not be the same in …. The resultssuggest that the most fundamental relationships between firm size, age, survival and growth arestrikingly …