Firm growth and productivity growth: Evidence from a panel VAR

Applied Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1251-1269

  Coad, Alex ^a,b   Broekel, Tom ^c  

^a Institute of Economics   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMPLOYMENT; FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; LABOR; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PANEL DATA; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

FRANCE;

EID: 80051648766     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2010.539542     Document Type: Article

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