scholarly journals The (Normal) Rate of Capacity Utilization at the Firm Level

Author(s):  
Michalis Nikiforos

2013 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michalis Nikiforos


2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 898-919
Author(s):  
Mark Setterfield ◽  
Joana David Avritzer


Author(s):  
Mark Setterfield

AbstractThis reply to Botte (2019, Estimating normal rates of capacity utilization and their tolerable ranges: a comment on Mark Setterfield, Cambridge Journal of Economics, forthcoming) responds to criticisms of the methods used to estimate the normal rate of capacity utilisation and a tolerable interval of variation in the actual rate of capacity utilisation around the normal rate in Setterfield (2019a, Long-run variation in capacity utilization in the presence of a fixed normal rate, Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 43, no. 2, 443–63). It concludes with some further reflections on the concept of corridor instability.



2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 177-198
Author(s):  
Michael Asiedu

The study employed firm level data from the World Bank’s Enterprise Survey Indicator Database to investigate firm characteristics associated with firm innovation in 32 African countries, for the period 2009 to 2018. We find that firm level innovation, including the introduction of significantly new products (H1), new or significantly improved methods of manufacturing products (New Technology) are strongly associated with external funding sources (funds from Banks and non-banking institutions). In addition, firm level characteristics such as firm age, female ownership, capacity utilization, educated labor force, exposure to competition is strongly associated with firm innovation. These findings are very important for countries in Africa (and other less-developed countries) who spend less on research and development due financing and structural constraints but want to accelerate economic growth and increased productivity.



2010 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eckhard Hein ◽  
Marc Lavoie ◽  
Till van Treeck




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