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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 48 avhandlingar innehållade orden Firm age.
1. New Venture, Survival, Growth : Continuance, Termination and Growth of Business Firms and Business Populations in Sweden During the 20th Century
Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on the formation, growth and discontinuance of business populations and firms in Sweden during the 20th century. It addresses some key issues in the domain of economic and social sciences, and in particular entrepreneurship and small business research: if and when firms grow, stagnate and decline, as well as how long firms survive and when they are likely to disband. LÄS MER
2. Essays on firm dynamics in the Swedish wholesale trade sector
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of a summary and five self-contained papers addressing dynamics of firms in the Swedish wholesale trade sector.Paper [1] focuses upon determinants of new firm formation in the Swedish wholesale trade sector, using two definitions of firms’ relevant markets, markets defined as administrative areas, and markets based on a cost minimizing behavior of retailers. LÄS MER
3. The Dynamics of Firm and Industry Growth : The Swedish Computing and Communications Industry
Sammanfattning : The growth of the Swedish Computing and Communicationsindustry is studied in this thesis. Growth is seen as a dynamicprocess moved by the entry, expansion, contraction and exit offirms.The analysis is founded on the theory of the ExperimentallyOrganised Economy, which views the economy as an experimentalprocess. LÄS MER
4. Essays on Firm Turnover, Growth, and Investment Behavior in Ethiopian Manufacturing
Sammanfattning : This thesis analyses the dynamics and investment behavior of Ethiopian manufacturing firms in post-reform period using establishment level industrial census panel data from 1996 to 2003. Three related topics such as firm turnover and productivity differentials, determinants of firm growth, and the effect of adjustment cost and irreversibility on firm investment decisions are investigated empirically. LÄS MER
5. Essays on Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy and Firm Heterogeneity
Sammanfattning : Firm Heterogeneity and Monetary Policy TransmissionThis paper studies sources of heterogeneity in the response of firm investment to monetary policy. I estimate firm-level semi-elasticities of investment to plausibly exogenous changes in interest rates for a comprehensive firm-level dataset for ten euro area countries. LÄS MER