Browsing by Author "Ugur, Mehmet"
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Intra-industry firm heterogeneity, myopic adaptation and exit hazard: A fitness landscape approach to firm survival and learning
Trushin, Eshref; Ugur, Mehmet (Article)We draw on insights from the fitness landscape literature and from models of firm dynamics with learning to hypothesize that: (i) firms in industries with higher company age or size heterogeneity have higher exit hazard ... -
Inverted-U relationship between R&D intensity and survival: evidence on scale and complementarity effects in UK data
Ugur, Mehmet; Trushin, Eshref; Solomon, Edna (Article)Existing evidence on the relationship between R&D intensity and firm survival is varied and often con-flicting. We argue that this may be due to overlooking R&D scale effects and complementarity betweenR&D intensity and ... -
R&D and productivity in OECD firms and industries: A hierarchical meta-regression analysis
Ugur, Mehmet; Trushin, Eshref; Solomon, Edna; Guidi, Francesco (Article)The relationship between R&D investment and firm/industry productivity has been investigated widely following seminal contributions by Zvi Griliches and others from late 1970s onwards. We aim to provide a systematic synthesis ...