Micro- and Macrodata of Firms: Statistical Analysis and International Comparison

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Exploring the Role of Acquisition in the Performance of Firms: Is the “Firm” the Right Unit of Analysis?....Pages 1-23
The Role of French and Foreign Enterprise Groups in the French Productive System Internationalization....Pages 25-58
Enterprise Group: The French Methodology and Results....Pages 59-68
Integration of Information in Enterprise Groups....Pages 69-80
Myths and Realities about Employment and SMES in France: The Role of Enterprise Groups (1984–1992)....Pages 81-124
International Comparability and Quality of Statistics....Pages 125-156
Sample Dependence: Theoretical Aspects and Illustrations....Pages 157-178
The Role of Technology in Manufacturing Employment and Productivity Growth: A Cross Country Micro Data Analysis of Japan and the United States....Pages 179-204
Quality Indicators for Statistical Surveys....Pages 205-211
Dynamic Labour Demand Model for Heterogeneous Panels....Pages 213-240
Productivity and Specificity in Factor Inputs....Pages 241-262
Is Maximal Efficiency Necessarily Optimal for Firms? A Panel Data Analysis of Firms Technical Efficiency within an Efficiency Wage Framework....Pages 263-278
Productivity, Competition, Financial Pressure and Corporate Governance — Some Empirical Evidence....Pages 279-296
Changing Nature of Japanese Firm?: Technology Adoption, Organizational Structure and Human Resource Strategy....Pages 297-318
Parametric Estimation of Technical and Allocative Efficiencies and Productivity Changes: A Case Study....Pages 319-347
Efficiency of the Italian Banking Sector via a Parametric Approach....Pages 349-372
Analysis of Effects of Reconstructed Business Units on Employment and Productivity Longitudinal Study Using Synthetic Units of Finnish Manufacturing....Pages 373-390
Factors of Performance by Plant Generations. Some Findings from Finland....Pages 391-424
Efficiency and Optimal Size Estimation with Panel Data: The Case of Business Service and Building Sector in Italy....Pages 425-439
Information Content of Balance Sheets for Quantitative Analysis of Industrial Districts....Pages 441-456
Efficiency and Localisation: The Case of Italian Districts....Pages 457-485
Groups, SME, and Territories: A Statistical Typology of the Local Industrial Structures in France....Pages 487-508
Econometric Issues in the Analysis of Linked Worker-Employer Surveys....Pages 509-540
Dynamics of Italian Industrial Firms: Microeconomic Analysis of Performance and Labour Demand from 1989 to 1994....Pages 541-569
The Influence of Adjustment Costs on Labour Adjustment: An Analysis Using Panel Data for Manufacturing Establishments in Lower Saxony....Pages 571-585
Companies and Local Units: The Employment Trends in France....Pages 587-597
Rank, Stock, Order and Epidemic Effects in the Diffusion of New Technologies in Italian Manufacturing Industries....Pages 599-622
Problems of Competitiveness Indicators....Pages 623-643
Financing Constraints and Markups: Further Evidence from Italian Firm Level Data....Pages 645-660
Measuring the Duration of Italian Enterprises on the European Market (1997)....Pages 661-683
Trend of the Tourist Flows in Italian Hotels: A Microeconomic Analysis During the Period 1990–95....Pages 685-704
Assessing Slacks Through a Nested Radial Approach in an FDH Reference Technology....Pages 705-720
Unobserved Revenues Estimation for Homogeneous Agricultural Firms: An Econometric Modelling Approach....Pages 721-743
Issues in Following Enterprises Through Time....Pages 745-767
Back Matter....Pages 769-776