Competitive, but too small - productivity and entry-exit determinants in European business services
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Keywords
productivity; frontier models; scale; industry dynamics; regulation; European Union; business services;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L8 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services
- C34 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Truncated and Censored Models; Switching Regression Models
- L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
- R38 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - Government Policy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2010-08-21 (Business Economics)
- NEP-COM-2010-08-21 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-CSE-2010-08-21 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-EFF-2010-08-21 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-ENT-2010-08-21 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-EUR-2010-08-21 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-REG-2010-08-21 (Regulation)
- NEP-SBM-2010-08-21 (Small Business Management)
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