Orietta Marsili, Bart Verspagen, Giulio Bottazzi, Giovanni Dosi, Luuk Klomp, George Van Leeuwen, ...
This paper explores the characteristics of `technological regimes' in Dutch manufacturing. Using evidence from the second Community Innovation Survey (CIS-II) a classification of technological...
Gibrat's Law and the firm size/firm growth relationship in italian small scale services
Roberta PIERGIOVANNI, Enrico SANTARELLI, Luuk KLOMP, A. Roy THURIK
Do Services differ from Manufacturing? The Post-Entry Performance of Firms in Dutch Services
D.B. Audretsch, Luuk Klomp, A.R. Thurik
A large literature has emerged focusing on the post-entry performance of firms and, in particular, on the links between firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in...
Productivity Convergence in OECD Manufacturing Industries
Martin A. Carree, Luuk Klomp, A. Roy Thurik
The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD-countries over the period 1972-1992 show large inter-industry differences. One...
Small Business and Job Creation: A Comment.
Davis, Haltiwanger and Schuh (1996) claim to dissect the myth and reassess the facts on the job creation prowess of small businesses. We disagree with the authors. In this comment we discuss their...
Gibrat's Law: Are the Services Different?
Roy Thurik, Enrico Santarelli, David Audretsch, Luuk Klomp
Several noted surveys on intra-industry dynamics have reached the conclusion from a large body of evidence that Gibrat's Law does not hold. However, almost all of these studies have been based on...
Innovation Performance and Innovation Policy: the Case of the Netherlands
Recent productivity growth has been sluggish in the Netherlands. Baumol suggests that future productivity performance might be hampered by inadequate arrangements and institutions between the four...
Do Services Differ From Manufacturing? The Post-Entry Performance of Firms in Dutch Services
Audretsch, David B, Klomp, Luuk, Thurik, A R Roy
A large literature has emerged focusing on the post-entry performance of firms and, in particular, on the links between firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in...
On the contribution of innovation to multi-factor productivity growth
George Van Leeuwen, Luuk Klomp
We embed the innovation production function in a model that analyzes the impact of innovation output on manufacturing multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth. We combine a market share model with a...
Testing The Convergence Hypothesis: A Comment
In a recent paper Lichtenberg (1994) proposes a test of the convergence hypothesis that the variance of productivity across countries decreases over time. He argues that the ratio of the variance in...