Labour productivity and profitability in the Dutch flower trade

This paper makes an attempt to illustrate the use of econometric models as frame of reference for diagnosing small firm performance. For this purpose, two models are developed explaining differences in labour productivity and profitability among Dutch flower exporters. In addition, we show how these models can be used for inter-firm performance comparisons

Firm-size distribution and price-cost margins in Dutch manufacturing

Industrial economists surmise a relation between the size distribution of firms and performance. Usually, attention is focused on the high end of the size distribution. The widely used 4-firm seller concentration, C4, ignores what happens at the low end of the size distribution. An investigation is presented of the extent to which the level and the growth of small business presence influence price-cost margins in Dutch manufacturing. A large data set of 66 industries for a 13-year period is used. This allows the investigation of both small business influences within a framework in which that of many other market structure variables is also studied. Evidence is shown that price-cost margins are influenced by large firm dominance, growth in small business presence, capital intensity, business cycle, international trade, and buyer concentration

Institutions and public policy making The politics of Greek banking deregulation and privatisation

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Institutions and public policy making The politics of Greek banking deregulation and privatisation

SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:D196374 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo

Topology of repeated sequences. Relationship of nuclear rna to the repeated sequences of the main and satellite dna in mouse plasmocytoma cells.

The topology of repeated sequences in mouse plasmocytoma DNA was studied by high-resolution CsCl density gradient centrifugation and heterogeneous nuclear RNA·DNA hybridization. Satellite region DNA of plasmocytoma cells contains additional components and hybridizes specifically with entire heterogeneous nuclear RNA molecules. A linkage is demonstrated between the A+T-rich satellite sequences and those hybridizing with heterogeneous nuclear RNA. Heavy DNA also hybridizes specifically with heterogeneous nuclear RNA molecules that show sequence similarity to heterogeneous nuclear RNA hybridized to satellite DNA. These results could suggest that part of satellite DNA became heavier after integration of some other DNA species, which could belong to a virus or to immunoglobulin repetitive genes. Dispersed, highly repetitive, short nucleotide sequences could constitute recognition sites for such a process