Nowadays work in I.O. has emphasized the importance of firm- and plant-level heterogeneity in total factor productivity. In this paper, we estimate establishment-level productivity for the entire U.S. manufacturing sector from 1976 until 1999 by using the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Research Database combined with the Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database. We...
Heterogeneity among firms is quite prevalent in industries. Using the random coefficients model, this paper aims to measure productive efficiency of firms allowing heterogeneity of firms. Firm level data from the Bangladesh food manufacturing are used for empirical estimation. The results show that there are wide variations in efficiency across...
This paper studies the impact of trade costs reduction on geographical concentration in the presence of firm heterogeneity and overhead type of export fixed costs. Firm heterogeneity with the export fixed costs hampers full agglomeration through weakening the forward and backward linkages and fortifying the market crowding effect. Rather than...
A new and rapidly expanding literature on firm heterogeneity and firm level globalisation strategies has developed over the last decade. New insights on why some firms export and others do not, why some firms fail to survive in export markets, whilst others do and why some choose to produce overseas...
This paper addresses the issue of intra-industry heterogeneity and internationalisation. Paper shows that, after controlling for sector, location, firm age and size, Italian manufacturing companies exhibit different economic and innovative performance according to their involvement in foreign activities. In particular, exporters show intermediate innovative performance between non-internationalised firms and those...
This paper addresses the issue of intra-industry heterogeneity and internationalisation. Paper shows that, after controlling for sector, location, firm age and size, Italian manufacturing companies exhibit different economic and innovative performance according to their involvement in foreign activities. In particular, exporters show intermediate innovative performance between non-internationalised firms and those...
This paper examines how heterogeneity across firms affects spillovers from multinationals. Using data on firms active in Italy in 1993-2000, it is shown that not every multinational firm is a good source of externality and not every domestic firm is equally well place to benefit from multinational activity. Positive spillovers...
Conventional approaches to modeling international commodity trade flows assume either perfect substitutability of goods from different countries, which results in unrealistically sharp predictions, or product differentiation by the country of origin, which is plausible for some goods, but is hard to justify for many fungible commodities. This paper introduces an...
This paper examines the selection behaviour of 68 European early stage high tech VCsventure capital. In particular, one examine whether or not these VCs exhibit heterogeneity in their selection behaviour. To examine these issues one employs a conjoint analysis methodology. The results indicate that VCs exhibit substantial heterogeneity in investment...
This paper investigates firm's alliance design choices by examining alliances as multifaceted contractual forms. The analysis explores the contractual heterogeneity underlying alternative governance structures for alliances, the bundling of different contractual provisions, and the dimensionality of the contractual completeness construct. The empirical evidence indicates that the complexity of collaborative agreements...
This paper examines the heterogeneity that exists across Asian groups in the United States. It finds that there are important differences across geographic area, across time, and across groups in the importance of various factors that influence the likelihood of owning a home. After controlling for household mobility and other...
The paper mentions that unanticipated reservoir heterogeneity may significantly hinder fluid production. A variety of techniques are available to help operators accurately describe reservoir compartments and their distributions. Integrated analysis considering results from varied techniques increases understanding of reservoir compartments, and ultimately raises production. It also adds that Reservoir heterogeneity...
The article says that option theory which has dominated residential mortgage prepayment and default research implies that a borrower will exercise prepayment or default options if the call option or put option, respectively, is "in the money" by some optimal amount. Empirical research provides evidence that the financial value of...
This study performs a theoretical analysis of instability in a departure time choice problem. Stability of equilibrium is an important factor for reliability of travel time. If equilibrium is not stable, travel time changes over a period of days even if demand and network performance are stable....
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