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Models on innovation, for the most part, do not include a comprehensive and end-to-end view. Most innovation policy attention seems to be focused on the capacity to innovate and on input factors such as R&D investment, scientific institutions, human resources and capital. Such inputs frequently...
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its exports, as well as (ii) the relationship between the export prices of a firm and its productivity. The paper extends … costs. There are three key findings. First, there exists a positive relationship between firm productivity and export prices … because the choice of higher-quality inputs is associated with higher productivity. Second, tighter credit constraints faced …
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competing theory based on the alternative assumption that quality is exogenous across firms would predict completely opposite …
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Companies and capitals may face different variants of European markets, being necessary to classify these markets by establishing their importance within the whole strategy of the company. Another goal is the wish to cover as many of these markets as possible under maximum efficiency conditions...
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This paper examines the relationship between the credit constraints faced by a firm and the unit value prices of its exports. The paper modifies Melitz's (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and credit constraints. The model predicts that tighter...
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contributed to labor productivity surge since 1990, this is the most promising one. It is thus necessary to take the firm as an …
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contributed to labor productivity surge since 1990, this is the most promising one. It is thus necessary to take the firm as an …
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This paper takes the firm as an information processing unit. It provides a model that involves the division of labour and specialization, and demand uncertainty. It shows that conditionally, a firm with information processing ability comes into being endogenously, with information rent...
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This paper takes the firm as an information processing unit. It provides a model that involves the division of labour and specialization, and demand uncertainty. It shows that conditionally, a firm with information processing ability comes into being endogenously, with information rent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015220716
An argument often adopted to explain the relatively scarce presence of Producer Co-operatives (PCs) in Western capitalist economies is the instability that may affect this type of firm during the positive phases of the business cycle. In a nutshell the argument is that in profitable industries...
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