Essays on firms' competitiveness

Abstract

As competition becomes intense, firms seek strategies to keep afloat. Among others, they carefully choose their activity location, recruit a talented workforce, and engage in innovation. In this thesis, we shed light on these three features empirically, mainly using econometric techniques. Our contribution is in the literature of firms’ competitiveness, industrial organization and economic geography. At first, we study regional productivity disparities and their interplay with local agglomeration advantages. To do so, we apply a density-based machine learning clustering algorithm to identify firms’ clusters at a fine-grained geographic scale on a sample of Italian firms. Then, we observe simultaneously the extent to which clusters explain agglomeration economies and firm selection effects. Our findings suggest that dense clusters generate agglomeration externalities that are heterogeneous across regions. In the second part of the thesis, we investigate the impact of foreign managers on ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/56305
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/56305
ND
56305
Alternative title
Μελέτες για την ανταγωνιστικότητα των επιχειρήσεων
Author
Exadaktylos, Dimitrios (Father's name: Emmanouil)
Date
2022
Degree Grantor
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
Committee members
Rungi Armando
Riccaboni Massimo
Grazzi Marco
Colantone Italo
Faggian Alessandra
Discipline
Social SciencesEconomics and Business ➨ Econometrics
Keywords
Firms; Competitiveness; Applied econometrics
Country
Italy
Language
English
Description
tbls., maps, fig., ch.
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