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Determinants of firms' efficiency: do innovations and finance constraints matter? : the case of European SMEs

Bonanno, Graziella; Ferrando, Annalisa; Rossi, Stefania - 2020

This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation … efficiency in order to increase profitability. Among firms that have embarked in product innovation, those in the industry and … help to better understand the link between innovation, financial constraints and efficiency, which goes beyond the idea …

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Product market regulation, business churning and productivity : evidence from the European Union countries

Anderton, Bob; Di Lupidio, Benedetta; Jarmulska, Barbara - 2019

Productivity performance in European countries has been a policy concern for some time. This paper shows that productivity can be enhanced by product market policies which, by increasing competition and efficiency, facilitate higher rates of firms' entry and exit (i.e., firm churning). Drawing...

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Enterprise productivity : a three-speed Europe ; the competitiveness research network

Dall’Olio, Andrea; Iootty, Mariana; Kanehira, Naoto; … - 2014

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Does private equity investment spur innovation? : evidence from Europe

Popov, Alexander; Roosenboom, Peter - 2009

We provide the first cross-country evidence of the effect of investment by private equity firms on innovation, focusing … funds and insurance companies across countries and over time. We also control for the standard determinants of innovation … aggregate (private equity plus R&D) industrial spending, PE accounts for as much as 12% of industrial innovation. We also …

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On the real effects of private equity investment : evidence from new business creation

Popov, Alexander; Roosenboom, Peter - 2009

Using a comprehensive database of European firms, we study how private equity affects the rate of firm entry. We find that private equity investment benefits new business incorporation, especially in industries with naturally higher entry rates and R&D intensity. A two standard deviation...

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Financial reforms and innovation : a micro-macro perspective

Boikos, Spyridon; Bournakis, Ioannis; Dimitris, … - 2021

suggests that whilst micro reforms boost innovation, macro reforms may appear negative. We test and find empirical support for …

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Concentration, market power and dynamism in the euro area

Cavalleri, Maria Chiara; Eliet, Alice; McAdam, Peter; … - 2019

We examine the degree of market power in the big four countries of the euro area using macro and firm-micro data. We focus on three main indicators of market power in and across countries: namely, the concentration ratios, the markup and the degree of economic dynamism. For the macro database we...

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Markups and inflation cyclicality in the euro area

Kouvavas, Omiros; Osbat, Chiara; Reinelt, Timo; … - 2021

Price inflation in the euro area has been stable and low since the Global Financial Crisis, despite notable changes in output and unemployment. We show that an increasing share of high markup firms is part of the explanation of why inflation remained stubbornly stable and low in the euro area...

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