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The Internationalization Patterns of Norwegian Firms : Does Industry Matter?

Grogaard, Birgitte; Benito, Gabriel R.G - 2005

The theoretical as well as empirical literature on companies' internationalization has mainly focused on firm-level and country-level factors in order to explain firms' cross-border activities. With the exception of a limited number of studies, especially those emphasizing rivalistic behavior in...

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Effizienz und Wettbewerb im ÖPNV

Walter, Matthias - 2010

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The Theory of Benchmarking and the Measurement of Industrial Organization

ten Raa, Thijs - 2007

If more productive firms grow relatively fast, an industry performs better, even when no firm exhibits technical or efficiency change. In other words, the two well-known sources of productivity growth - technology and efficiency - can be augmented by a third one, namely the industrial...

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The relationship between technical efficiency and industrial concentration: Evidence from the Indonesian food and beverages industry

Setiawan, Maman; Emvalomatis, Grigorios; Oude Lansink, … - In: Journal of Asian Economics 23 (2012) 4, pp. 466-475

This paper investigates the relationship between technical efficiency and industrial concentration in the Indonesian food and beverages sector. Firm-level data obtained from the Indonesian Bureau of Central Statistics (BPS) are used to estimate technical efficiency scores and calculate measures...

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Stochastic frontier analysis by means of maximum likelihood and the method of moments

Behr, Andreas; Tente, Sebastian - 2008

also discussed in relevant literature. The natural estimation method seems to be Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimation because … estimation approaches for both the half-normal and the exponential approach to inefficiency. Based on the simulation results we … obtain decision rules for the choice of the superior estimation approach. Both estimation methods, ML and MOM, are applied to …

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A Sectoral Analysis of Ontario's Weak Productivity Growth

Spiro, Peter S. - 2013

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The production function of top R&D investors : accounting for size and sector heterogeneity with quantile estimations

Vezzani, Antonio; Montresor, Sandro - 2013

technical change. We use the EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard and perform a quantile estimation of an augmented Cobb …

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Estimation of Total Factor Productivity for Regions and Sectors in Italy. A Panel Cointegration Approach

Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele; Pala, Roberto - 2015

rigorous inference on the estimation of regional production functions. The technological levels of the northern regions result …

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Market power in the portfolio : product market competition and mutual fund performance

Jaspersen, Stefan - 2016 - This draft: September 2016

I provide evidence that fund managers who overweight firms with the most differentiated products ('monopolies') exhibit a superior risk-adjusted performance. This is consistent with information advantages due to a better understanding of qualitative information on a firm's competitive...

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Productivity in electricity retail after market liberalisation : analysing the effects of ownership and firm's governance structure

Stiel, Caroline; Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria - 2015

This paper, which is one of the first to estimate productivity in retail electricity for a European country after liberalisation, analyses the effect of ownership and governance structure by using a unique dataset of German electricity retailers from 2003 to 2012. An innovative service...

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