Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity: Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?

The R&D Investment-Uncertainty Relationship: Do Strategic Rivalry and Firm Size Matter?

This paper uses a real options perspective to augment the standard R&D investment model and implements a firm-level empirical analysis to assess the practical significance of market uncertainty and its interactions with strategic rivalry and firm size. We use a measure of firm-relevant market uncertainty along with panel data and find that firms invest less in current R&D as uncertainty about m...

How Do Data Skills Affect Firm Productivity: Evidence from Process-driven vs. Innovation-driven Practices

As digitization of various economic and human behaviors become more prevalent, we examine whether data analysis capabilities can help with processand innovation-oriented firm practices. Using detailed, firm level data on employee data analysis capabilities combined with a survey of organizational practices for 330 large firms, we find that while neither data skills nor process-related practices...

The Effect Of Salvage Market On Strategic Technology Choice And Capacity Investment Decision Of Firm Under Demand Uncertainty

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

Firm Innovation, Productivity, and Trade

Firm innovation effort, productivity, and export propensity are found to be positively correlated with one another. Two alternative explanations have been offered for this — innovation increases productivity and more productive firms self-select into exporting or, alternatively, exporting increases learning and innovation, which in turn affects productivity. We use differences in timing implied...