There exists a growing body of literature which looks at export decisions made by firms. Most studies focus on developed countries and do not explore whether different behavioral patterns prevail over the firm size distribution. This paper aims at filling this gap in the literature by analyzing...

Purpose - This study investigates how ICT adoption enhances the innovativeness of informal firms in West Africa, using the cases of Ghana and Nigeria. Design/methods/approach - The study used the World Bank Enterprise Survey data 2014 for Ghana and Nigeria with binary logistic regression...

In this paper, we study a new channel to explain firms' price setting behavior. We propose that uncertainty about factor prices has a positive effect on markups. We show theoretically that firms with higher shares of inputs with volatile prices set higher markups. We use the Bartik shift-share...

This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across destinations and across exporting firms, and of the...

This paper investigates the evolution of aggregate productivity and markups among French manufacturing firms between 1994 and 2016, by focusing on the role of reallocation with respect to both aggregate measures. Firm-level productivity and markups are estimated based on a gross output translog...

Nach den aktuellen Ergebnissen des ifo Investitionstests wollen die Unternehmen des deutschen Verarbeitenden Gewerbes 2015 ihre Investitionen um knapp 5% erhöhen. Für das Jahr 2014 ergaben die Meldungen der Befragungsteilnehmer einen Anstieg von 3%. In den beiden Jahren, 2014 und 2015,...

Nach den aktuellen Ergebnissen des ifo Investitionstests wollen die Unternehmen des deutschen Verarbeitenden Gewerbes 2016 ihre Investitionen um rund 5% erhöhen. Für das Jahr 2015 ergaben die Meldungen der Befragungsteilnehmer einen Anstieg von 4%.

Using firm-level data for Estonia for the years 1997-2005, we analyze the impact of international competition on firm dynamics, considering both firm closedown and product switching. This paper contributes to the literature in two important ways: (1) this is the first paper to study the...

Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...