Evidence from a Firm Survey

This monograph provides a detailed account of what firms do in their R&D activities. In particular, using a unique survey of firms in Japan, we focus on the following four aspects of R&D management: the organizational structure of R&D, staged project management for R&D projects, compensation and incentive schemes for R&D personnel, and a firm’s risk preferences and corporate culture.

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The paper employs a fixed-effects framework for the estimation using a panel sample of manufacturing firms from small- and medium-sized enterprise surveys between 2009 and 2013.

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This paper presents a comprehensive survey on factors influencing on privatization of the firms in steel industry. The study has designed a questionnaire in Likert scale and distributed it among some experts who worked for Mobarakeh steel producer in Iran.

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Using data from a survey of small and medium scale manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam, this study investigates the impact of firm and owner characteristics on firm growth. The results reveal that firm size has a negative effect on firm growth, suggesting the invalidity of Gibrat’s Law.

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The available evidence suggests that they are not. Every five years, the Census Bureau conducts its nationwide Survey of Business Owners. The SBO samples privately held, nonfarm businesses of all ages, from recently founded to many years in existence. Using SBO data, the American Express OPEN report for 2011 found that just 1.8 percent of women-owned firms had revenues more than $1 million. The figure for men-owned firms was 6.3 percent In public perception, the $1 million threshold has become a sort of magic number.

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Academic dishonesty appears to be a growing problem throughout our educational system. Collinson (1990), in a 1988 survey of college freshmen found that 37% admitted to having cheated on a test in high school, up from 30% in the previous year. In addition, 57% of these students admitted to having copied another student’s work, up from 52% in the previous year. These percentages are similar to those in a poll cited by Nazario (1990), which indicated that 47% of the undergraduates surveyed would cheat on an exam....

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The presence of the lagged dependent variable Ci(-1) has a dual interpretation. On the one hand, it reflects relationship banking in the vein of the literature discussed in section 2.1. Long-term enterprise-bank relations help to reduce information asymmetries; banks would be more willing to lend again if they have already done so (we consider the banking sector as a whole as the lending party). On the other hand, a positive association can be interpreted as evidence of soft budget constraints on the part of the banks in the sense of Berglof and Roland (1998).

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In the present paper we use a model to forecast default probabilities and estimate default correlations based on the threshold model described above. The default probability measures the probability of an obligor’s assets falling short of a threshold. In addition, asset correlations are modeled as a measure of co-movement of the asset values of two obligors. Default correlations can then be derived analytically.

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