Agglomeration externalities, competition and productivity: empirical evidence from firms located in Ukraine

Agglomeration Effects and the Competition for Firms

A two-region economy consists of a given but different number of immobile workers in each region, and a given number of mobile firms. Firms create jobs where they locate, but there is frictional unemployment. Two sorts of agglomeration effects arise: those from economies of scale in matching, and those from production economies external to the firm. Regions may either be part of a unitary state...

Fiscal Externalities in Local Tax Competition: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of German Jurisdictions

This paper is concerned with scal externalities arising from local taxation of a mobile factor. Using a panel of more 1100 local jurisdictions it provides empirical evidence on how the local tax rate as well as the tax rate in the neighborhood a ect the local tax base. The results support the existence of scal externalities: an increase in the tax rate of local neighbors exerts a positive e ect...

DOES PRIVATIZATION RAISE PRODUCTIVITY? Evidence from Comprehensive Panel Data on Manufacturing Firms in Hungary, Romania, Russia and Ukraine

Productivity, Profitability and Financial Fragility: Empirical Evidence from Italian Business Firms

In this work we investigate two crucial dimensions of firms’ structure and dynamics, that is profitability and productivity performance. The empirical distributions and the associated persistence over time are explored through a set of parametric and non parametric exercises performed on an large panel of Italian firms active in both Manufacturing and Services during the period 1998-2003. The m...

Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services: Evidence from U.K. Firms

This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of serviceproducing firms in the U.K. Immigrants may substitute for imported intermediate inputs (offshore production) and they may impact the productivity of the firm as well as its export behavior. The first effect can be understood as the re-assignment of offshore productive tasks to immigrant workers. The ...