As schumpeterian creative destruction is increasingly popular, this leads to focus on high-growth firms. These firms have been called gazelles by Birch. Among the SME employing 20 to 250 workers in 1993 and still alive in 2003, the top 5% of the distribution of growth - henceforth called...

Este artículo es una extensión del trabajo de Martin (2003) que intenta estimar si las empresas emplean, estratégicamente, la deuda para limitar la entrada de potenciales rivales. Usando el Método Generalizado de Momentos (GMM), se evalúa el efecto que tienen los activos específicos, la...

We use a French firm-level panel data set over the period 1993-2004 to analyze the relationship between credit constraints and firms' R&D behavior over the business cycle. Our main results can be summarized as follows: (i) the share of R&D investment over total investment is countercyclical...

This article aims at estimating leading indicators of the American economy with financial variables. We use two types of hidden Markov chains models, a quantitative one (Krolzig (1997)) and a qualitative one (Gregoir and Lenglart (2000)). These models provide a robust and reliable framework to...

In early 2003, the OECD released a major report entitled The Sources of Growth in OECD Countries. In the seventh and final article, Martin Neil Baily from the Institute for International Economics, and former Chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers reviews the report. Baily notes that...

En 2006, l’activité industrielle s’accélère, soutenue par les PMI. Elles réduisent leur taux d’endettement alors que les grandes entreprises augmentent le leur ; les holdings portent désormais plus du tiers de l’endettement bancaire des groupes industriels.

De nombreux travaux en économie industrielle et écologie des organisations s’intéressent de manière récente au lien entre l’âge de l’organisation et sa probabilité de disparition. Testant quatre propositions théoriques relatives à la relation entre âge et mortalité, nous...