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to allow joint stock firm membership, investment-banking concerns organized as partnerships or closely-held private … the Investment Banks chose to float after 1970, and why they did so in waves. In our model, partnerships have a role in … the partnership’s going-public decision. We support our theory with a new dataset of investment bank partnership …
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This paper investigates the relationship between firm restructuring and international competition in Bulgaria during …
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This paper investigates the activities of the Bulgarian competition office, the Commission for the Protection of Competition, during 1991–5. Descriptive statistics are provided on the industry incidence of investigations, the types of behaviour that were investigated, and the frequency with...
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We develop a model that examines the capital structure and investment decisions of regulated firms in a setting that …
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Business cycles reflect changes over time in the amount of trade between individuals. In this paper we show that incorporating explicitly intra-temporal gains from trade between individuals into a macroeconomic model can provide new insight into the potential mechanisms driving economic...
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us to reject this view. In fact, a net capital inflow made possible to meet the demand for investment boosting economic …
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This Paper documents four basic facts about investment goods and investment prices. First, investment has a very …, and transportation) are much less important for investment than for consumption. Third, the import content of investment …
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Several alterantive scenarios for the economic integration of East and West Germany are analysed. They all share an amphasis of the rile of migration and labor mobility in this process. The effects of congestion costs, rigid wages, human capital and heterogeneity of migrants, and endogenous...
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When new technologies become available, it is not only essential that firms have the correct investment incentives, but … often also that consumers make the proper usage decisions. This paper studies investment and usage in a shared ATM network …. Because all banks coordinate their ATM investment decisions, there is no strategic but only a pure cost-saving incentive to …
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the provision of long-term finance. This approach suggests that the separation between the analysis of investment and that …
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