Growth processes of Italian manufacturing firms

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We apply a reduced-form vector autoregression model to analyze the growth processes of Italian manufacturing firms, 1989-1997. We focus in particular on lead-lag associations describing the coevolution of employment growth, sales growth, growth of profits and labour productivity growth. Employment growth precedes sales growth and growth of profits, and in turn sales growth is also associated with subsequent profits growth. There appears to be little feedback of either sales or profits on employment growth, however. There is no clear association of employment growth with subsequent changes in labour productivity, although at the second lag there is a small negative association. Productivity growth, however, is positively associated with subsequent growth of employment and sales. Quantile autoregressions find asymmetries between growth processes for growing and shrinking firms.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2008,039

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope ; Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior: General
• Subject: Firm growth ; panel VAR ; employment growth ; industrial dynamics ; productivity growth ; Verarbeitendes Gewerbe ; Unternehmenswachstum ; Beschäftigungseffekt ; Arbeitsproduktivität ; VAR-Modell ; Panel ; Italien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Coad, Alex ; Rao, Rekha ; Tamagni, Federico
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (where): Jena
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/25721
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET