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Unbundling technology adoption and tfp at the firm level. Do intangibles matter?

2012

We use a panel of European firms to investigate the relationship between intangible assets and productivity. We distinguish between total factor productivity (tfp) and technology adoption, whereas standard estimations consider only a notion of productivity that conflates the two effects. Although we are unable to address simultaneity, we allow for the existence of multiple technologies within sectors through a mixture model approach. We find that intangible assets have nonnegligible effects that both push firms toward better technologies (technology adoption effects) and allow for more efficient exploitation of a given technology (tfp effects).

Economics and Econometricintangible assetsSimultaneityfirm selectionTFP Intangible Assets Heterogeneity Firm Selection Technology Adoption Mixture Modelstechnology adoptionjel:D24jel:F12Strategy and Management1409 Tourism Leisure and Hospitality ManagementTFPjel:C29TFP intangible assets firm heterogeneity firm selection technology adoption mixture modelsfirm heterogeneityManagement of Technology and Innovationmixture models;tfp;intangible assets;firm heterogeneity;firm selection;technology adoptionEconomicsjel:O32Business Management and Accounting (all)Unbundlingmixture modelsSettore SECS-P/01 - Economia PoliticaProductivityTotal factor productivityIndustrial organization
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A Spatial Multilevel Analysis of Italian SMEs Productivity

2009

Abstract In this paper, we adapt multilevel analysis methods to investigate the spatial variability of SMEs' productivity across the Italian territory, and account for differences in the socio-economic context. Our results suggest that to properly capture the variability of the data, it is important to allow for both spatial mean and slope effects. Social decay has the expected negative impact. However, while this effect is larger on firms with smaller capital intensity, firms with higher capital intensity seem to be less affected by geography. Greater territorial heterogeneity emerges among those firms with lower capital to labour ratios. Une analyse spatiale a plusieurs niveaux de la prod…

Firm heterogeneity Spatial variability Socio-economic Context Multilevel AnalysisOperations researchWelfare economicsjel:C31Geography Planning and DevelopmentMultilevel modelContext (language use)socio-economic contextFirm heterogeneityGeographyCapital (economics)jel:R30Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)Capital intensitySpatial variabilityspatial variabilitymultilevel analysisjel:R12Statistics Probability and Uncertaintyjel:R11General Economics Econometrics and FinanceProductivity
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A spatial multilevel analysis of Italian SMEs Productivity

2009

In this paper, we adapt multilevel analysis methods to investigate the spatial variability of SMEs productivity across the Italian territory, and account for differences in the socio-economic context. Our results suggest that to properly capture the variability of the data, it is important to allow for both spatial mean and slope effects. Social decay has the expected negative impact. However, while this effect is larger on firms with smaller capital intensity, firms with higher capital intensity seem to be less affected by geography. Greater territorial heterogeneity emerges among those firms with lower capital to labour ratios.

Firm heterogeneity Spatial variability Socio-economic Context Multilevel Analysis
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