Springing from a research project conducted by the Research Centre of Labour Economics and Economic Policy (CELPE) of the U. of Salerno, Italy, this book contains 15 contributed chapters and an
introduction by the editors. Relying on microeconometric analyses, the studies explore the determinants of firm dynamics, an area of intense interest in the last two decades. Coverage includes
Gibrat’s law, firms’ growth (and decline), and the evolution of firms’ size distribution; non-parametric frontier estimates from Italian manufacturing; productivity versus corruption effects;
innovation and exports of German business services enterprises; determinants of entry and exit--evidence from Tunisian manufacturing industries; and foreign direct investment and firm survival
in transition countries, among other topics. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
