COST Network: Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data: Industry Dynamics, Firm Performance, and Worker Outcomes

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COST Action IS0701: Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data

Working Group Papers on Firm Performance

• “An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms.” Eaton, J., S. Kortum, and Francis Kramarz. Crest Working Paper, 2010. second round at Econometrica.

• “An Innovation Index Based on Knowledge Capital Investment: Definition and Results for the UK Market Sector." Clayton, Tony, Mariela Dal Borgo, and Jonathan Haskel. CEPR Discussion Papers 7158, 2009.

• “Cross-country and Within-country Differences in Business Climate.” Bartelsman, Eric J., John Haltiwanger, and Stefano Scarpetta. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2010 (forthcoming).

• “Do Mergers Improve Information? Evidence from the Loan Market.” Panetta, F., Fabiano Schivardi, and M. Shum. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 41(4), 673-709, 2009.

• “Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization.” Brown, J. David, John S. Earle, and Almos Telegdy.  Forthcoming in Economic Journal.

• “Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation.” Bartelsman, Eric, Pieter Gautier, and Joris De Wind. Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper TI 2010-042/3, 2010.

• “Entry Barriers in Italian Retail Trade.” Schivardi, Fabiano, and E. Viviano, Economic Journal, forthcoming.

• “From Innovation to Exporting or Vice Versa? Damijan, Joze P., Crt Kostevc, and Saso Polanec. The World Economy, 2010.

• “Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing.” Debaere, Peter, Holger Gorg, and Horst Raff. CEPR Discussion Paper, 2009.

• “Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand?  State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness.” Brown, J. David, John S. Earle, and Scott Gehlbach. American Political Science Review, Vol. 103(2), 264-283, May 2009.

• “Innovation, Adoption, Ownership, and Productivity: Evidence from Ukraine.” Brown, J. David, John S. Earle, Hanna Vakhitova, and Vitaliy Zheka. Working paper, 2010.

• "Exports, Imports and Wages: Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker-Product Panels", Martins, Pedro, and Luca Opromolla. IZA DP 4646, 2009.

• “Microcredit, Employment, Sales, and Survival: An Empirical Evaluation Using a Panel Matching Estimator.” Brown, J. David, and John S. Earle. Working paper. May 2010.

• “Multinational Companies, Backward Linkages and Labour Demand Elasticities.” Girma, Sourafel, Holger Gorg, Eric Strobl, and Frank Walsh. IZA Discussion Paper. Published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 42(1), 332-348, 2009.

• “Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern.” Baumgarten, Daniel, Ingo Geishecker, and Holger Gorg. IZA Discussion Paper No. 4828, 2010.

• “Political Selection of Firms into Privatization Programs. Evidence from Romanian Comprehensive Data.” Telegdy, Almos, and Adam Szentpeteri. Economics and Politics, forthcoming.

• “Consumer behavior and organic food production in Romania”. Epure, Manuela, Barna, Cristina, Vasilescu, Ruxandra, Zorzoliu, Raluca, Gudei, Corina. In Proceedings of International Entrepreneurship Congress 2009: “SMEs and Entrepreneurship.” Editor Prof. Dr. Alev Katrinli, Izmir University of Economics.

• “Globalization and Innovations (Slovakia),” Gašparíková, Jana. In:Concord-2nd European Conference on Corporate R&D. An Engine for Growth, a Challenge for European Policy  .CONCORD 2010,Seville, Spain,3rd-4th March.http://iri.jrc.ec.europa.eu, poster.

• “Productivity Differences in an International Pharmaceutical Firm.” Eriksson, Tor Viking, and Niels Westergård-Nielsen. In International Differences in the Business Practices and Productivity of Firms. Richard B. Freeman and Kathryn L. Shaw (eds.). University of Chicago Press, 173-192 , 2009. Contribution to scientific book/anthology.

• “Public Support for Innovation, Intangible Investment and Productivity Growth in the UK Market Sector.” Haskel, Jonathan, and Gavin Wallis. IZA Discussion Papers 4772, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2010.

• “Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Micro Data.” Haskel, Jonathan, and Raffaella Sadun. CEPR Discussion Papers 7140, 2009.

• “Rent Sharing in Portuguese Banking.” Monteiro, Natalia, and Miguel Portela. The Manchester School, forthcoming.

• “Searching for the Sources of Productivity: From Macro to Micro and Back.” Bartelsman, Eric J. Industrial and Corporate Change, accepted for publication 2010.

• “Services Outsourcing and Innovation: An Empirical Investigation.” Gorg, Holger, and Aoife Hanley. IZA Discussion Paper. Forthcoming in Economic Inquiry, 2010.

• “Small Open Economy Firms in International Trade: Evidence from Danish Transactions-Level Data.” Eriksson, Tor Viking, Frederic Warzynski, and Valérie Smeets. Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift. Vol. 147(2), 175-194, 2009. Peer-reviewed article.

• “Spillovers Through Backward Linkages from Multinationals: Measurement Matters!” Barrios, Salvador, Holger Gorg, and Eric Strobl. CEPR Discussion Paper, 2009.

• “Startup Growth, Finance, and the Business Environment: Evidence from Universal Firm-Level Data in Eight Economies.” Brown, J. David, and John S. Earle. Working paper, January 2010.

• “Subsidies and Exports in Germany: First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data.” Girma, Sourafel, Holger Gorg, and Joachim Wagner. IZA Discussion Paper. Published in Applied Economics Quarterly, Vol. 55 (3), 179-195, 2009.

• “Tax buyouts.”  Del Negro, M. Del Negro and F. Perri, and Fabiano Schivardi. Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, forthcoming.

• “The Euro and Firm Restructuring.” Bugamelli, Matteo, Fabiano Schivardi, and Roberta Zizza, In “Europe and the Euro,” A. Alesina and F. Giavazzi (eds.), University of Chicago Press, 2010.

• “Comprehensive Data.” Telegdy, Almos, and Adam Szentpeteri. Economics and Politics, forthcoming.http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/122540092/PDFSTART