Max Planck Institute of Economics

	Dr. Alexander Coad
	Researcher (Post-Doctoral Fellow)
	Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group Kahlaische Straße 10 D-07745 Jena Germany
	phone:	+49 - 3641 - 686 822
	fax:	+49 - 3641 - 686 868
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Journal Articles

Giulio Bottazzi, Alex Coad, Nadia Jacoby and Angelo Secchi, 2009. "Corporate Growth and Industrial Dynamics: Evidence from French Manufacturing", Applied Economics, forthcoming.

Alex Coad & Peter de Haan & Julia Sophie Woersdorfer, 2009. "Consumer support for environmental policies: An application to purchases of green cars," Ecological Economics, 68(7), 2078-2086

Alex Coad & Werner Hölzl, 2009. "On the Autocorrelation of Growth Rates," Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, Springer, vol. 9(2), 139-166 (PDF)

Alex Coad, 2009. "On the distribution of product price and quality", Journal of Evolutionary Economics’ 19(4), 589-604. (PDF)

Alex Coad & Rekha Rao, 2009. "Firm growth and R&D expenditure", Economics of Innovation and New Technology, forthcoming.

Coad, Alex, (2008) "Firm growth and scaling of growth rate variance in multiplant firms." Economics Bulletin 12 (9), 1-15. (PDF)

Alex Coad & Rekha Rao, 2008. "Innovation and firm growth in high-tech sectors: A quantile regression approach", Research Policy, 37 (4), 663-648

Alex Coad, 2007. "A Closer Look at Serial Growth Rate Correlation", Review of Industrial Organization, vol. 31, 69-82

Alex Coad, 2007. "Testing the principle of 'growth of the fitter' : The relationship between profits and firm growth", Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, vol. 18(3), 370-386.

Alex Coad & Rekha Rao, 2006. "Innovation and market value: a quantile regression analysis", Economics Bulletin, vol. 15(13), pages 1-10. (PDF)

Books

Alex Coad, 2009. "The Growth of Firms: a Survey of Theories and Empirical Evidence" Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA

Doctoral Thesis

"Empirical investigations into the characteristics and determinants of the growth of firms" (PDF)

Selected Working Papers

Alexander Coad, 2008. "Distance to Frontier and Appropriate Business Strategy", Papers on Economics and Evolution 2008-07, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group. (PDF)
Alex Coad, Rekha Rao and Federico Tamagni, 2008. "Growth processes of Italian manufacturing firms", Jena Economic Research Papers 2008-39, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. (PDF)
Alex Coad & Peter de Haan & Julia Sophie Woersdorfer, 2008. "Consumer support for environmental policies: An application to purchases of green cars", Jena Economic Research Papers 2008-35, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. (PDF)
Alex Coad & Tom Broekel, 2007. "Firm Growth and Productivity Growth: Evidence from a Panel VAR", Jena Economic Research Papers 2007-103, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. (PDF)
Alex Coad, 2007. "Disentangling the firm growth process: evidence from a recursive panel VAR", #0715 Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena. (PDF)
Alex Coad, 2007. "Exploring the 'mechanics' of firm growth: evidence from a short-panel VAR", Documents de travail du Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne r07037, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne. (PDF) (revise and resubmit from ‘Industrial and Corporate Change’)
Alex Coad & Rekha Rao, 2007. "The Employment Effects of Innovations in High-Tech Industries", #0705 Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena. (PDF) (revise and resubmit from Journal of Evolutionary Economics)
Alex Coad, 2007. "Firm Growth: A Survey", #0703 Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena. (PDF)
Alex Coad, 2007. "Neoclassical vs evolutionary theories of financial constraints: critique and prospectus", Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne r07008, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne. (PDF) (revise and resubmit from ‘Structural Change and Economic Dynamics’)
Alex Coad, 2006. "Towards an explanation of the exponential distribution of firm growth rates", Cahiers de la Maison des Sciences Economiques r06025, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1). (PDF)

Referee Work

Empirical Economics, Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, Industrial and Corporate Change (2), International Economic Journal, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Netnomics, Research Policy

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