Micro- and Macrodata of Firms

A: Enterprise Groups.- Exploring the Role of Acquisition in the Performance of Firms: Is the "Firm" The Right Unit of Analysis?.- The Role of French and Foreign Enterprise Groups in the French Productive System Internationalization.- Enterprise Group: The French Methodology and Results.- Integration of Information in Enterprise Groups.- Myths and Realities about Employment and SMES in France: The Role of Enterprise Groups (1984-1992).- B: International Comparison.- International Comparability and Quality of Statistics.- Sample Dependence: Theoretical Aspects and Illustrations.- The Role of Technology in Manufacturing Employment and Productivity Growth: A Cross Country Micro Data Analysis of Japan and the United States.- Quality Indicators for Statistical Surveys.- C: Efficiency, Productivity, Innovation and Other Factors.- Dynamic Labour Demand Model for Heterogeneous Panels.- Productivity and Specificity in Factor Inputs.- Is Maximal Efficiency Necessarily Optimal for Firms? A Panel Data Analysis of Firms Technical Efficiency within an Efficiency Wage Framework.- Productivity, Competition, Financial Pressure and Corporate Governance - Some Empirical Evidence.- Changing Nature of Japanese Firm?: Technology Adoption, Organizational Structure and Human Resource Strategy.- Parametric Estimation of Technical and Allocative Efficiencies and Productivity Changes: A Case Study.- Efficiency of the Italian Banking Sector via a Parametric Approach.- Analysis of Effects of Reconstructed Business Units on Employment and Productivity. Longitudinal Study Using Synthetic Units of Finnish Manufacturing.- Factors of Performance by Plant Generations. Some Findings from Finland.- Efficiency and Optimal Size Estimation with Panel Data: The Case of Business Service and BuildingSector in Italy.- Information Content of Balance Sheets for Quantitative Analysis of Industrial Districts.- Efficiency and Localisation: The Case of Italian Districts.- Groups, SME, and Territories: A Statistical Typology of the Local Industrial Structures in France.- Econometric Issues in the Analysis of Linked Worker-Employer Surveys.- Dynamics of Italian Industrial Firms: Microeconomic Analysis of Performance and Labour Demand from 1989 to 1994.- The Influence of Adjustment Costs on Labour Adjustment: An Analysis Using Panel Data for Manufacturing Establishments in Lower Saxony.- Companies and Local Units: The Employment Trends in France.- Rank, Stock, Order and Epidemic Effects in the Diffusion of New Technologies in Italian Manufacturing Industries.- Problems of Competitiveness Indicators.- Financing Constraints and Markups: Further Evidence Form Italian Firm Level Data.- Measuring the Duration of Italian Enterprises on the European Market (1997).- Trend of the Tourist Flows in Italian Hotels: A Microeconomic Analysis During the Period 1990-95.- Assessing Slacks through a Nested Radial Approach in an FDH Reference Technology.- Unobserved Revenues Estimation for Homogeneous Agricultural Firms: An Econometric Modelling Approach.- D: Task Force.- Issues in Following Enterprises through Time.- Authors List and Addresses.