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services. SMEs in particular are dependent on support. …
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uncertainty. The empirical literature has mostly considered uncertainty-investment nexus, and this study uniquely considers …
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Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially in the high-tech industries), and this...
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Small and medium enterprises play an important role in developing and transition economies. Recently, more attention has been paid to the role of networks in improving firm performance. By using data from the DANIDA project on SME survey with more than 2,500 manufacturing firms in Vietnam, we...
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The existing potential of SMEs remains untapped in most developing countries, including India. In India, most SMEs have … a lower share of foreign goods and services to produce exports than larger firms. Moreover, dependent SMEs also have … greater integration in terms of imports than independent SMEs and are better equipped to overcome import trade barriers …
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Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially in the high-tech industries), and this...
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This study investigates how corporate R&D evolves in the light of the contemporary economic crisis. We study empirical evidence from past downturns, discuss the relevant literature, and perform an empirical analysis of recent business survey data (collected during 2009). Pivotal for our...
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investment was 25 percent of value added in manufacturing, while the corresponding figure for the service sector was 11 percent … investment accounted for almost 30 percent of labor productivity growth in manufacturing. Thus, investments in intangibles that …
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Prettner (2019) studies the implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share in a variant of the Solow-Swan model. The aggregate production function allows for two types of capital, traditional and automation capital. Traditional capital and labor are imperfect substitutes...
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engage in innovative activities with smaller probability, the smaller they are, for those firms that do make such investment …
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