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From Gibrat’s legacy to Gibrat’s fallacy. A Bayesian approach to study the growth of firms

Cefis, Elena; Ciccarelli, Matteo; Orsenigo, Luigi - Dipartimento di Scienze Aziendali, Economiche e Metodi … - 2002

In this paper we investigate some properties of the patterns of firms’ growth. Several recent studies about this topic are based on some version of the so-called Gibrat’s Law, which assumes that firms’ growth is erratic. We aimed at testing Gibrat’s Law, as a first step towards a more...

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How Structural Change Differs, and Why it Matters (for Economic Growth)

Laursen, Keld - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998

Several types of theoretical literature on the topic of trade, growth and specialisation, including neoclassical approaches, post-Keynesian literature and some models in evolutionary economics, have shown that it is possible enjoy higher rates of economic growth, given the presence of certain...

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Export variety and economic growth in East European transition economies

Funke, Michael; Ruhwedel, Ralf - EconWPA - 2003

Utilising panel data for 14 East European transition economies, we find support for the hypothesis that a greater degree of export variety relative to the U.S. helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The empirical work relies upon some direct measures of product variety calculated from...

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Export Variety and Economic Growth in East European Transition Economies

Ruhwedel, Ralf; Funke, Michael - Institut für Makroökonomie und Wirtschaftspolitik, … - 2005

Utilising panel data for 14 East European transition economies we find support for the hypothesis that a greater degree of export variety relative to the U.S. helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels.The empirical work relies upon some direct measures of product variety calculated from...

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Innovation in clean coal technologies : empirical evidence from firm-level patent data

Kruse, Jürgen; Wetzel, Heike - 2016

This article empirically analyzes supply-side and demand-side factors expected to a.ect innovation in clean coal … clean coal patenting and overall propensity to patent positively a.ects clean coal innovation. On the demand-side we find … strong evidence that environmental regulation of emissions, that is, CO2, NOX and SO2, induces innovation in both efficiency …

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Innovation in clean coal technologies : empirical evidence from firm-level patent data

Kruse, Jürgen; Wetzel, Heike - 2016

This article empirically analyzes supply-side and demand-side factors expected to affect innovation in clean coal … clean coal patenting and overall propensity to patent positively affects clean coal innovation. On the demand-side we find … strong evidence that environmental regulation of emissions, that is CO2, NOX and SO2, induces innovation in both efficiency …

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Innovation in green energy technologies and the economic performance of firms

Kruse, Jürgen - 2016

In this article, I empirically analyze and compare the impact of innovation in green and non-green energy technologies … innovation has a statistically significant negative impact on economic firm performance. In contrast, nongreen energy innovation … private economic returns in terms of productivity are lower for green energy than for non-green energy innovation. …

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Energy prices,technological knowledge and green energy innovation : a dynamic panel analysis of patent counts

Kruse, Jürgen; Wetzel, Heike - 2014

We examine the effect of energy prices and technological knowledge on innovation in green energy technologies. In doing … results indicate that the existing knowledge stock is a significant driver of green energy innovation for all technologies …. Furthermore, the results suggest that energy prices have a positive impact on innovation for some but not all technologies and …

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Determinants of firms' efficiency: do innovations and finance constraints matter? : the case of European SMEs

Bonanno, Graziella; Ferrando, Annalisa; Rossi, Stefania - 2020

This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation … efficiency in order to increase profitability. Among firms that have embarked in product innovation, those in the industry and … help to better understand the link between innovation, financial constraints and efficiency, which goes beyond the idea …

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Innovation, Wachstum und Beschäftigung: Eine empirische Untersuchung auf der Basis des Ifo-Unternehmenspanels

Smolny, Werner; Schneeweis, Thomas - 1996

Untersuchungen des Unternehmensverhaltens durchzuführen. Diese Daten wurden im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts Wachstum und Innovation …

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