Showing 1 - 10 of 20
This paper analyses the transmission of productivity shocks across countries and how the responses of investment and the current account differ depending on the degree of propagation of the shocks. We explore both issues by estimating a structural model for Japan, the United States and Europe....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123648
This paper is a first attempt to analyse the determinants of inter-firm R&D agreements between advanced and developing countries, i.e. between firms with asymmetric endowments of knowledge. It shows that international dispersion of R&D activity by multinationals also concerns developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124163
This paper investigates the effects of introducing household production in an international real business cycle model. We show how a model driven by disturbances to the household production can account for some features of international cycles. A version of the model which considers shocks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504316
This paper proposes classical business cycle turning points for a number of countries based on industrial production. The countries selected are the G7 together with most major European countries. This information enables us to examine the international nature of cyclical movements. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662258
Performance indicators are increasingly used to regulate quality in health care and other areas of the public sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123654
We analyse the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and … ownership improves economic performance, but domestic private ownership does not, relative to state-owned firms. Foreign firms … increasing profit. Ownership concentration is associated with superior performance, thus providing support to the agency theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124464
against our data. We find that team size affects the impact of the incentive scheme upon performance. Moreover, while the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498005
In this paper firm level data are used to test whether competition affects productivity performance in three transition … pressure has a positive impact on firm performance in Hungary and Slovenia, but not in Romania, while in Romenia short …-run competitive pressure has a positive impact on performance. The paper also finds evidence that ownership matters. Traditional firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498145
-advertising families. At the family level, flows have a convex relation with advertising expenditures, similar to that for performance … redemptions rather than increasing purchases of fund shares. We further find that advertising can affect the fund’s flow-performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145467
We investigate an informal yet important mechanism in the private equity industry that helps to reduce uncertainty: relationship building. Based on a large sample of private equity funds over the 1980-2010 period, we find that the general partners strategically allocate good funds to loyal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186612