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Lower Bounds of Concentration in a Small Open Economy
We examine how Sutton’s “bounds” approach works in a small country where industries have relatively high export and import intensities. The bounds...
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Effects of trade liberalization on domestic prices: Some evidence from Tunisian manufacturing
This paper presents estimates of the competitive effects of trade liberalization on domestic pricing behaviour of Tunisian manufacturing industries....
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Business R&D and the Interplay of R&D Subsidies and Product Market Uncertainty
This paper examines the effect of product market uncertainty and government research and development (R&D) subsidies on firm-level R&D investment....
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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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Exchange Rate Cycles and Canada/US Manufacturing Prices
The paper examines the industry characteristics that are related to the shifts in competitiveness, measured as the relative common-currency price...
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Grundlagen der Spaltung
Die Spaltung stellt „einen ihrer Art nach einzigartigen Vorgang dar, bei dem Wirtschaftsgüter, Vermögenswerte und Verbindlichkeiten eines...
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Foreign Ownership, Competition, and Survival Dynamics
The impact of foreign direct investment on host countries’ industrial sectors has received considerable attention. It is shown by many researchers...
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An analysis of China’s global industrial competitive strength based on vertical specialization
At the beginning of the 1990s, China witnessed an increase in its international competitive strength in technology-intensive and capital-intensive...
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Productivity and Exporting Status of Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from Quantile Regressions
Past literature has established the relationship between productivity and exporting. This paper provides further understanding about this issue by...
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Doing R&D and/or Importing Technologies: The Critical Importance of Firm Size in Taiwan’s Manufacturing Industries
We analyze the relationship between firm size and innovation inputs in Taiwan. Two inputs are considered: R&D and technology imports. Building on an...
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Economic Integration and Manufacturing Concentration Patterns: Evidence from MERCOSUR
Over the past two decades, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay have implemented unilateral trade liberalization programs and formed MERCOSUR....
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Export Intensity and Plant Characteristics: What Can We Learn from Quantile Regression?
Using quantile regression and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants this paper documents that the impact of plant...
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The Concluding Remarks of the Governor of the Bank of Italy for the year 1946
During his tenure as Governor of the Bank of Italy Einaudi transformed the Annual Report of the Bank into an exercise quite different from a mere...
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Market Share Instability and the Dynamics of Competition: a Panel Data Analysis of Japanese Manufacturing Industries
This paper explores market share instability as a measure of market mobility. Using a newly constructed panel data set, we examine the determinants...
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Influences of the Business Environment on Manufacturing Firms Technical Efficiencies: The Côte d’Ivoire Case
An unbalanced panel is used to estimate technical and managerial efficiency levels of manufacturing firms in Côte d’Ivoire. A stochastic frontier...
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Technology and the Size Distribution of Firms: Evidence from Dutch Manufacturing
Empirical studies have shown that the size distribution of firms can be described as a Pareto distribution. However, these studies have focused on...