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Corporate Performance: Does Ownership Matter? A Comparison of Foreign- and Domestic-Owned Firms in Greece and Portugal
The paper investigates whether multinational corporations (MNCs) operating in Portugal and Greece perform differently than domestic firms. Departures...
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Export Behavior and Firm Productivity in German Manufacturing: A Firm-Level Analysis
This paper examines the causal relationship between productivity and exporting in German manufacturing. We find a causal link from high productivity...
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Regulation of Subprime Mortgage Products: An Analysis of North Carolina's Predatory Lending Law
This paper estimates the effect of North Carolina's high-cost mortgage law on the subprime mortgage market in that state. The results indicate that...
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Pricing to market at firm level
This paper analyzes the influence of exchange rate variations on prices in foreign and home markets using firm data. The theoretical benchmark, based...
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The role of codified sources of knowledge in innovation: Empirical evidence from Dutch manufacturing
This paper explores ongoing debates about the role that codified forms of knowledge play in fostering innovative behaviour. It aims to provide an...
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The Importance of R&D for Innovation: A Reassessment Using French Survey Data
This paper compares the contribution of R&D to innovation in terms of the various innovation output measures provided by the third Community...
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A comparative perspective on innovation and productivity in manufacturing and services
This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity...
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Measuring the market power in the ceramic tile industry: An international comparison
This paper measures the degree of competition faced by Spanish and Italian exporters of ceramic tiles in several European Union member states. The...
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Untersuchung und empirische Befunde
In der Vergangenheit sind stets verschiedenste Primär- und Sekundärquellen zur Untersuchung von Migrationsphänomenen herangezogen worden, die oft...
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Learning by Doing and Spillovers: Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data
In this paper we extend the Bahk and Gort (1993) ( Journal of Political Economy , 101 , 561–583) approach of testing for the impact of learning by doing...
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Has Import Disciplined Swedish Manufacturing Firms in the 1990s?
This paper analyses how increased integration and the ongoing enlargement of the EU’s internal market affected the performance of Swedish...
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Gibrat's Law: Are the Services Different?
Several noted surveys on intra-industry dynamics have reached the conclusion from a large body of evidence that Gibrat's Law does not hold. However,...
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Export Orientation and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Analysis of firm-level panel data from three Sub-Saharan African economies shows that export manufacturers have an average total factor productivity...
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The National Economic Field and Algebraic Reconstruction of SNA
In this chapter we will give a concrete state description of an individual economic agent based on the concept of economic exchange, construct the...
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Unobserved firm heterogeneity and the size-exports nexus: Evidence from German panel data
This paper starts from the stylized fact that firm size and exporting tends to be positively related. Using large sets of establishment panel data...