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Sources of productivity growth at the firm level: A production function approach
Smolny, Werner - 1997
In the paper, the sources of productivity growth are investigated by an empirical analysis with micro data for West-German manufacturing firms. The theoretical framework corresponds to an augmented growth accounting approach based on a production function. The empirical results reveal that...
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Auferstanden aus Ruinen: Gründe für den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg Sachsens nach der Wiedervereinigung
Ragnitz, Joachim - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 24 (2017) 06, pp. 25-30
Der vorliegende Artikel führt die wirtschaftlichen Erfolge Sachsens nach der Vereinigung im Wesentlichen auf zwei Ursachen zurück: Zum einen auf die lange historische Tradition als bedeutsamer Industriestandort, die nicht zuletzt auch Denken und Einstellungen der Menschen in Sachsen auf lange...
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Intangible capital in the Finnish business sector, 1975-2005
Jalava, Jukka; Aulin-Ahmavaara, Pirkko; Alanen, Aku - 2007
This paper is the first effort to analyze the intangible investments of the Finnish non-financial business sector in 1975–2005 with a heretofore unseen scope of intangible investments in line with the definition of Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2005, 2006). Not only GDP but also investments have...
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Why Germany has such a weak growth performance
Siebert, Horst - 2003
Germany has had an extremely low growth performance since 1995. The paper looks at the long-run reasons for this loss of economic dynamics besides German unification: These include leaving labor idle, a declining share of investment in GDP, a weaker innovative activity, an ineffective system for...
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Banks and innovation: microeconometric evidence on Italian firms
Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - 2006
set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990's. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …
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Financial constraints for investors and the speed of adaptation: Are innovators special?
von Kalckreuth, Ulf - 2004
?s Investment Tests (IT) during the years 1988-1998, we create a panel with information on investment, innovation activity and … self-selected on the basis of their being able to overcome the special difficulties of financing innovation. …
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Loan availability and investment: Can innovative companies better cope with loan denials?
Mueller, Elisabeth; Reize, Frank - 2010
This study examines the consequences of loan denials for the investment performance of small and medium-sized German enterprises. As a consequence of a loan denial, innovative companies experience a smaller drop in the share of actual to planned investment than non-innovative companies. The...
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Robust cyclical growth
Mukherji, Anjan - 2003
The stability of cyclical growth within the context of a model in Matsuyama (1999) is examined. It is shown that but for an extreme situation, the two-cycles are unique and a range of parameter values which imply the stability of such cyclical growth is derived. The growth enhancing property of...
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Private provision of public goods by firms
Konrad, Kai A. - 1992
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Heterogeneous firms, trade, and economic policy: Insights from a simple two-sector model
Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2011
The robust empirical finding that exporting firms are systematically different from firms that merely serve domestic consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The establishment of a canonical model due to Melitz (2003) has...
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