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Productivity Growth and the Structure of the Business Cycle

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

Over recent years `opportunity cost' (OC) models of growth have been constructed which suggest that firms take …

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A resource need and availability view of the make or ally choice: evidence from the worldwide aircraft industry 1945-2000

Garrette, Bernard; Dussauge, Pierre; Castaner, Xavier - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2008

This paper investigates why firms choose to undertake product expansion through alliances with competitors rather than on their own.

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Testing the Female Underperformance Hypothesis

Henrekson, Magnus; Du Rietz, Anita - 1999

growth, while we consistently find that they do not underperform in terms of profitability, our study provides no support for …

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Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entryand Post-Entry Growth of Firms

Aghion, Philippe; Fally, Thibault; Scarpetta, Stefano - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Advanced market economies are characterized by a continuous process of creativedestruction. Market forces and technological developments play a major role in shaping thisprocess, but institutional and policy settings also influence firms´ decision to enter, to expandif successful and to exit if...

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Un Modello Di Crescita Discontinua Dell’Impresa : Teoria Ed Evidenza Empirica

D'Elia, Enrico - 2014

discontinuous growth can be based on a couple of assumptions:(a) in the short run, the firm's equipment and organization provide the … different locally optimal size. Secondly, when demand is growing, investment are expected to increase just in those firms where … apparent between investment and profitability, controlling for the size of firms …

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A Note on the Relation between Size, Ownership Status and Plant's Closure : Sunk Costs vs. Strategic Size Liability

Colombo, Massimo G. - 2009

In this paper we test both sunk cost and strategic size liability predictions by looking at the exit behavior of a sample of Italian manufacturing plants. For this purpose, we focus on plants' size and ownership status. In particular, we distinguish independent plants from plants that belong to...

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Intertemporal Bundling Under Demand Uncertainty

Mialon, Sue H. - 2014

We develop a two-period model of bundling strategy when a monopolistic firm faces uncertain demand in the second period. We examine the effect of intertemporal bundling on market outcomes in three cases: when the monopolist offers bundling without an option to purchase an individual future...

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Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entry and Post-Entry Growth of Firms

Scarpetta, Stefano; Aghion, Philippe; Fally, Thibault - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

successful. Both private credit and stock market capitalization are important for promoting entry and post entry growth of firms … entry of new (especially small) firms and the post-entry growth of successful young businesses. …

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Evolutionary Model of Non-Durable Markets

Kaldasch, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

paper on consumer durables. The model suggests that the repurchase process is governed by preferential growth. Applying … consequence the size distribution of business units is a lognormal distribution, while the growth rates are also given by a …

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Entry, Exit, Firm Dynamics, and Aggregate Fluctuations

Clementi, Gian Luca; Palazzo, Berardino - 2011

equilibrium allocation in Hopenhayn (1992)’s model of equilibrium industry dynamics, amended to allow for investment in physical … idiosyncratic productivity is mean-reverting, mean and variance of the distribution of productivity growth are pro-cyclical …

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