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external environments and the impact these have on their performance capacity. Thus, this paper aims to identify the most … impactful factors on the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises engaged in manufacturing activities in Romania, by … factors among the top critical factors, those with the most significant impact on the performance being the high cost of raw …
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Are Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Research & Development (R&D) inputs or efficiency determinants? This is the topic of the paper which is developed by analysing a sample of 2691 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2007-2009. The empirical setting is based on a...
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Are Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Research & Development (R&D) productive inputs or efficiency determinants? This is the topic of this paper which analyses a sample of 2691 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2007-2009. The empirical setting is based on a production...
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Are Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Research & Development (R&D) inputs or efficiency determinants? This is the topic of the paper which is developed by analysing a sample of 2691 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2007-2009. The empirical setting is based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112301
employment. Our results indicate that public policies aimed at supporting Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) should be …
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In this paper, we empirically test the effects of the EU's 'cohesion policy' on the performance of 273,500 European …
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The Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) function is popular in several areas of economics, but it is rarely used in econometric analysis because it cannot be estimated by standard linear regression techniques. We discuss several existing approaches and propose a new grid-search approach...
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The Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) function is popular in several areas of economics, but it is rarely used in econometric analysis because it cannot be estimated by standard linear regression techniques. We discuss several existing approaches and propose a new grid-search approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147447
Measures of institutional quality are strong predictors of cross-country differences in income and productivity. The institutional economics literature has long maintained that one way institutions influence economic growth is by impacting the efficient allocation of production factors across...
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(in terms of itsproductivity and industry performance). We quantify the response of firm sales within and acrossindustries …
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