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Turbulence, Flexibility and Performance of the Long-lived Small Firm
Power, Bernadette; Reid, Gavin C - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
in Scotland. New measures of flexibility and turbulence are used to explain the performance of mature small firms. These … depend on our unique body of evidence from interviews with owner managers. Performance is measured using a Likert scale over … performance. This is done in two forms. The first involves generalised least squares estimation (with heteroskedastic adjustment …
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Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy
Audretsch, D.B.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
significantly increased, and (2) a positive relationship exists between entrepreneurial activity and economic performance. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257351
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Determinants of Competitiveness of the Indian Auto Industry
Badri Narayanan G.; Vashisht, Pankaj - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
1. This study analyses the determinants of competitiveness in the Indian auto industry. It is based on a field survey and a quantitative analysis of secondary data. The field survey covers 45 firms all over India, of which 31 are auto-component firms and 14 are Original Equipment Manufacturers...
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Industrial Agglomeration, Production Networks and FDI Promotion The Case Study of China
Jianglin, Zhao; Xiaobing, Zhou; Minghui, Shen - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Chinas Industrial clustering is a distinguished economic phenomenon over the last 20 years. It began to enter into its fast track in the mid-1990s and developed rapidly in recent years. Both market-driven force and government-driven force contribute to Chinese industrial clusters. The opening...
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Financial Health and Firm Productivity : Firm-level Evidence from Viet Nam
Thangavelu, Shandre M.; Chongvilaivan, Aekapol - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
Does financial health shore up firm productivity? This paper empirically investigates this question and presents productivity as another driving factor in translating financial development into real economic progress. Our empirical framework employs Levinsohn and Petrin’s (2003)...
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Japan’s Post-Triple-Disaster Growth Strategy
Kawai, Masahiro; Morgan, Peter J. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
The Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011 was the biggest earthquake recorded in Japanese seismic history, and the fourth largest recorded in the world. The scope of the disaster far exceeded that of the Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. The repercussions of this disaster spread far...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278121
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Japan’s Post-Triple-Disaster Growth Strategy
Kawai, Masahiro; Morgan, Peter J. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
The Great East Japan Earthquake on 11 March 2011 was the biggest earthquake recorded in Japanese seismic history, and the fourth largest recorded in the world. The scope of the disaster far exceeded that of the Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. The repercussions of this disaster spread far...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278232
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Optimal Diversity in Investments with Recombinant Innovation
Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den; Zeppini-Rossi, Paolo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>Structural Change and Economic Dynamics</I>, 2013, 24, 141-156.<P> We address the notion of dynamic, endogenous diversity and its role in theories of investment and technological innovation. We develop a formal model of an innovation arising from the...</p></i>
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The Pollution Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions: Asymmetry, Disaggregation, and Multilateralism
Swart, Julia; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
This paper studies the impact of cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) on Carbon Dioxide emissions. Carbon Dioxide is the main anthropogenic greenhouse gas. A global problem that requires a multilateral solution. To take this into account we introduce an institutional variable, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255767
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Modelling R&D and Innovation Support Systems – Analysis of Regional Cluster Structures in Innovation in Portugal
Vaz, Teresa de Noronha; Galindo, Purificación Vicente; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This paper offers a new methodology to identify R&D and innovation clusters, on the basis of a regional analysis of innovation support systems in Portugal. Using a web-based inventory of R&D and innovation agencies, an extensive data base is created. This data set is next analyzed by means of...
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