The authors consider the roles of learning, competition and market imperfections in determining three aspects of firm performance, namely firm exit, firm growth and productivity growth. They use a pooled panel data set of firms in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania that spans a period of five years.
The studys main aim is to derive elasticities of demand and supply for manufactured exports using time series data. These can be used as inputs into other studies, especially in the growing computable general equilibrium model arena.
The paper analyses empirically whether skill-biased
technological change and foreign direct investment play a role in explaining the skill-upgrading in Italian manufacturing industry during the 1990s. Empirical evidence does not provide support that the research and development effort undertaken in high-tech sectors by each group of firms has influence on Italian skill upgrading.
The paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity relationship within service industries.
The paper examines the role of multinational
corporations (MNCs) as the creator and diffuser of new and superior technologies. Results suggest that the spillovers from MNCs for the domestic sector of the Turkish manufacturing industry differentiate with respect to size of the recipient domestic firms and by time.
The paper investigates the critical elements that affect the ability of firms in developing countries to cultivate their technological capability through imported technology. Based on resource-based theory, the authors propose both internal and external factors contribute to technological capability of the recipient firms.
The paper investigates the critical elements that affect the ability of firms in developing countries to cultivate their technological capability through imported technology. Based on resource-based theory, the authors propose both internal and external factors contribute to technological capability of the recipient firms.
The paper studies the probability of survival of the manufacturing plants that start producing in Chile in the period 1979-1999 using a proportional hazards model. Opposing previous empirical international evidence, the survival diminishes with age, initial size, and with the rate of growth of the plant. It also diminishes with the regional unemployment rate.
The authors estimate the impact of import competition on labour productivity growth in Australian manufacturing using a panel data analysis for nearly three decades period. They also examine whether the impact of import competition varies across industries with domestic market structure.
The authors analyze the pre-exit performance of industrial firms using a French manufacturing firm-level dataset and focusing on the 1990-2000
period. They use three main performance indexes: size, total factor productivity and profitability indexes.