Firm growth, European industry dynamics and domestic business cycles

Harald Oberhofer

No 55, FIW Working Paper series from FIW

Abstract: Based on the empirical firm growth literature and on heterogeneous (microeconomic) adjustment models, this paper empirically investigates the impact of European industry fluctuations and domestic business cycles on the growth performance of European firms. Since the implementation of the Single market program (SMP) the EU 27 member states share a common market. Accordingly, the European industry business cycle is expected to become a more influential predictor of European firms' behavior at the expense of domestic fluctuations. Empirically, the results of a two-part model for a sample of European manufacturing firms reject this hypothesis. Additionally, subsidiaries of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) constitute the most stable firm cohort throughout the observed business cycle.

Keywords: Firm growth; industry dynamics; domestic business cycle; European integration; multinational enterprises; two-part model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 F23 L11 L16 L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32
Date: 2010-09
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Journal Article: Firm Growth, European Industry Dynamics and Domestic Business Cycles (2012)
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