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Firm debt structure and firm size [PDF]

, 2009
The recent macro monetary policy debate over the existence of bank lending channels focuses on short-term bank borrowing versus short-term non-bank borrowing by firms. The approach is macro using aggregate manufacturing corporation data from the QFR of the US Census Bureau.
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Technology, Firm Size, and Entrepreneurship

2013
AbstractFirms are one of the main characters of any economy and an excellent observatory for monitoring a nation's evolution. The history of Italy's productive system in the last 150 years is divided into three parts, corresponding to a similar number of industrial revolutions. While firms obtained excellent results in the first two, their inability to
AMATORI, FRANCO, Matteo Bugamelli, COLLI, ANDREA   +2 more
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Do firms’ growth rates depend on firm size?

Small Business Economics, 2011
The empirical literature dealing with corporate growth does not in general give support to Gibrat’s Law stating that the expected increase in firm size is proportionate to its initial size, leaving their growth rates independent of size. Using a relatively large and representative sample of approximately 2,500 Danish firms representing all industries ...
Bentzen, Jan, Madsen, Erik Strøjer, Smith, Valdemar   +2 more
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Firm size and economic growth

Economics Letters, 2002
In a sample of more than 700 US cities, the average size of manufacturing and retail firms is negatively and robustly associated with subsequent growth rates of median household income. Wholesale and service firms display less consistent associations.
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Market Size, Firm Size and Reputation for Quality

Economics Letters
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A Note on the Firm Size — Export Relationship

Small Business Economics, 2001
The positive relationship between firm size and direct exports is often considered as a stylized fact. Numerous econometric investigations back theoretical considerations by showing that a ceteris paribus positive relationship between firm size and direct export activities exists.
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FIRM SIZE, LEADING FIRMS AND MOBILITY

Studies in Economics and Finance, 1984
Industrial organization economists have generally treated the firms operating within industries as fairly homogeneous. The firms are assumed to be similar in terms of the main decision variables so that there are few differences in the price: output, and product strategies preferred by each firm.
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The Formation and Development of Mid-Sized Firms: What are Mid-Sized Firms?

Japanese Economic Studies, 1992
In 1961, while conducting a case study under the topic of "The Modernization of Small and Medium Firms," I noticed a group of firms that were emerging beyond the small and medium sizes. This phenomenon was not limited to just a few industries but could be found in almost all industries in manufacturing and distribution.
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Innovation, trade and the size of exporting firms [PDF]

, 2013
This paper contributes to the literature explaining firm-level heterogenenity in the extensive margin of trade, defined as the number of products exported by each firm. We develop a dynamic model where firms must invest in RD to maintain and increase their portfolio of goods: the process of product innovation by incumbent firms is such that the ...
Letizia Montinari, Massimo Riccarboni, Stefano Schiavo   +2 more
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Firm debt structure and firm size: A micro approach [PDF]

, 2010
Micro industrial firm panel data on short-term and long-term borrowing (term debt structure) for annual and quarterly time periods over the years 1995-2008 are used to test an insulation hypothesis and a related volatility hypothesis. The former test uses a regression model relating the ratio of accounts payable in trade to long-term debt to firm size ...
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