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Firms’ human capital, R&D and innovation: a study on French firms
This article investigates the effects of human capital and technological capital on innovation. While the role of technological capital as measured...
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Is Voluntary Pollution Abatement in the Absence of a Carrot or Stick Effective? Evidence from Facility Participation in the EPA’s 33/50 Program
We examine whether voluntary pollution abatement programs in which there is no program-specific participation incentive are effective in reducing...
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Adjustment of inputs and measurement of technical efficiency: A dynamic panel data analysis of the Egyptian manufacturing sectors
The purpose of this article is to construct a dynamic stochastic production frontier incorporating the sluggish adjustment of inputs, to measure the...
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Are men and women-economists evenly distributed across research fields? Some new empirical evidence
This paper analyzes the gender distribution of research fields in economics based on a new dataset of almost 1,900 researchers affiliated to top-50...
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Knowledge sourcing and firm performance in an industrializing economy: the case of Taiwan (1992–2003)
We examine the impact of R&D and technology imports on firm performance in Taiwan’s manufacturing industry in a policy context of industrial...
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Sunk Costs, Market Contestability, and the Size Distribution of Firms
In this paper we offer a new economic explanation for the observed inter-industry differences in the size distribution of firms. Our empirical...
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Spatial point pattern analysis and industry concentration
Traditional measures of spatial industry concentration are restricted to given areal units. They do not make allowance for the fact that...
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The role of spatial agglomeration in a structural model of innovation, productivity and export: a firm-level analysis
In this article, using a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms, we estimate a structural model of research, innovation, productivity and export...
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Regional knowledge production in nanomaterials: a spatial filtering approach
Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the twenty-first century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation and economic growth....
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Comparative Analysis of Plant Dynamics by Size: Korean Manufacturing
A comparative analysis on Korean manufacturing plants is performed by size of plants and sources of TFP growth are decomposed into entry, exit, and...
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The spillover effects of R&D on manufacturing industry in Taiwan’s metropolitan areas
The literature of new growth theory regards Research and Development (R&D) as a crucial factor in economic growth. This is because R&D not only...
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A competing risks analysis of firms’ exit
Firms may exit the market in several ways and each form of exit is likely to be caused by different factors (Schary in RAND J Econ 22:339–353, 1991)....
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A class of spatial econometric methods in the empirical analysis of clusters of firms in the space
In this paper we aim at identifying stylized facts in order to suggest adequate models for the co-agglomeration of industries in space. We describe a...
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Firms’ International Status and Heterogeneity in Performance: Evidence from Italy
Recent years have seen remarkable changes in the nature of trade and FDI flows. Globalization has stretched national boundaries and broadened firms’...
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The U-Shaped Productivity Dynamics of French Exporters
We use data on French manufacturing firms to reveal that the productivity dynamics of new exporters is typically U-shaped. Prior to entry, firm...
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Innovation, Technology Transfer and Labor Productivity Linkages: Evidence from a Panel of Manufacturing Industries
The paper explores the linkages between labour productivity, innovation and technology spillovers in a panel of manufacturing industries. The roles...
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Exports and Productivity Growth: First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach
A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. However, previous empirical...
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The spillover effects of public capital on the Turkish private manufacturing industries in the geographical regions
This paper investigates the spillover effects of public capital formation on the Turkish private manufacturing industry at the regional level over...
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Beggar thy Neighbor? The Transmission of Fiscal Shocks from the US to Canada
This paper investigates how innovations in income taxes and government expenditures originating in the US affect the US economy, and how these...
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The responses of manufacturing businesses to geographical differences in electricity prices
The price of electricity varies considerably across localities and states. This paper focuses on the geographical differences in electricity prices...