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Milk or wine: Mutual funds' (dis)economies of life

Dahm, Laura K.; Sorhage, Christoph - 2015

strategies. The lack of innovation manifests in less performance enhancing trading and fewer investments in hard-to-value stocks …. Still, we provide evidence that less performance sensitive as well as non-institutional investors seek investments in mature … funds and that they benefit from more stable investment styles and performance outcomes. …

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Export Mix Changes and Firm Performance: Evidence from Chile

Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Zahler, Andrés - 2014

econometric results, which look at the impact of export product churning on firm performance, are heterogeneous by type of change …

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Technology and costs in international competitiveness: From countries and sectors to firms

Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele - 2014

This paper examines the determinants of international competitiveness at the level of sectors and firms. First, we address the relation between cost-related and technological competition in a sample of fifteen OECD countries. Results suggest that the countries' sectoral market shares are indeed...

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What do firms know? What do they produce? A new look at the relationship between patenting profiles and patterns of product diversification

Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Moschella, Daniele - 2015

scope, their relationships, the size-scaling and coherence properties of diversification itself. Our analysis shows that …

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Returns on investments in new ski lifts: The importance of weather conditions and elevation

Falk, Martin - 2015

This paper investigates the factors that influence the change in passenger ski-lift transports between a normal winter and an anomalously mild winter based on individual lift and aggregate ski-area data. Special focus is placed on the return on investments in new ski lifts. Using endogenous...

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Innovation and the growth of service firms: The Polish case

Szczygielski, Krzysztof; Grabowski, Wojciech; Woodward, … - 2013

investigated the link between innovation performance and employment growth. First we discuss the problem from the theoretical point … of view and then we analyze the relationship between innovation performance and the dynamics of employment in the Polish …

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Markup responses to Chinese imports

Meinen, Philipp - 2016

This paper analyzes markup responses of Danish firms to Chinese imports. Besides negative markup responses due to competitive pressure, we present some evidence for marginal cost savings related to Chinese intermediate goods imports which tend to raise firm-level markups.

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Comparing estimated and self-reported mark-ups for formal and informal firms in an emerging market context

Rand, John - 2017

Using a 10-year panel survey covering Vietnamese manufacturing firms, we consistently obtain firm-specific mark-up estimates and relate these to firm-level formality. The average firm-specific mark-up using a trans-log revenue production function specification is estimated to be 1,445, with...

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Breaking the metal ceiling: Female entrepreneurs who succeed in male-dominated sectors

Campos, Francisco; Goldstein, Markus; McGorman, Laura; … - 2017

Occupational segregation significantly contributes to the earnings gender gap worldwide. We look at differences in outcomes for male and female enterprises and their sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa, a region of high female participation in entrepreneurship. Data on Uganda show that women breaking...

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An international comparison of the contribution to job creation by high-growth firms

Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Dumont, … - 2018

This paper addresses three simple questions: how should the contribution of high-growth firms to job creation be measured? how much does this contribution vary across countries? to what extent does the cross-country variation depend on variation in the proportion of high-growth firms in the...

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