industries significantly varied depending on the respective industry's own distinctive features as well as macroeconomic … turbulences. Especially, vulnerability of new SME entrants and exiting SMEs in the automobile industry, allegedly resulted from … IT manufacturing industry, resulting from the second strongest vertical integration in their industrial structure. In the …

This paper investigates the relationship between industry relatedness and firm productivity and the role of firms …' absorptive capacity in moderating that relationship. The results reveal a positive relationship between industry relatedness and …

Using a panel of firm-level data, this paper examines the effects of India's trade reforms in the early 1990s on firm … us to establish a causal link between variations in inter-industry and inter-temporal tariffs and consistently estimated … firm productivity. Specifically, reductions in trade protectionism lead to higher levels and growth of firm productivity …

This paper examines the industry-specific attenuation speed of agglomeration economies and its interplay with the large … patterns across industry types. We obtain three main findings. First, agglomeration economies attenuate sharply with spatial … distance in China, with large heterogeneity in the attenuation speed across ownership and industry types. Second, the spatial …

unbalanced firm-level panel data set, while taking into account firm, industry, state and time-specific factors. By using fixed … effect models and Heckman's two-step estimation procedure, we find that trade liberalization is associated with improved firm … that Indian MSMEs face which prevent them from benefiting from trade liberalization. We also find that productivity gains …

effect of R&D offshoring on industrial productivity in the home country using industry-level data for 18 OECD countries over …

specification, the estimated coefficients are consistent with all three predictions of the model — but only for one industry: cinder … blocks. In this industry, the expansion of the local market boosts industrywide total factor revenue productivity, while …