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Microeconometric Evidence of Financing Frictions and Innovative Activity
Tiwari, Amaresh K.; Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz; Loeff, … - CESifo - 2014
Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics, and R&D slows down. In the absence of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743448
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Drivers and Obstacles to Banking SMEs: The Role of Competition and the Institutional Framework
Torre, Augusto de la; Pería, María Soledad Martínez; … - CESifo - 2009
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are important for employment and economic activity; however, they are perceived to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979421
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The Volatility Curse: Revisiting the Paradox of Plenty
Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Poelhekke, Steven - CESifo - 2009
The volatility of unanticipated output growth in income per capita is detrimental to long-run development, controlling for initial income per capita, population growth, human capital, investment, openness and natural resource dependence. This effect is significant and robust over a wide range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000394
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CEO Compensation
Frydman, Carola; Jenter, Dirk - CESifo - 2010
This paper surveys the recent literature on CEO compensation. The rapid rise in CEO pay over the past 30 years has sparked an intense debate about the nature of the pay-setting process. Many view the high level of CEO compensation as the result of powerful managers setting their own pay. Others...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799732
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The Social Security Administration's Youth Transition Demonstration Projects: Interim Report on Transition WORKS.
Fraker, Thomas; Black, Alison; Mamun, Arif; Manno, Michelle - Mathematica Policy Research - 2011
employment and other outcomes for youth ages 14 to 25 who are either receiving disability benefits or are at high risk of … receiving them in the future. This report reviews the Youth Transition Demonstration (YTD) projects, located in Buffalo, New …’s use of services, employment and earnings, income and benefits, educational attainment, and attitudes and expectations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010923869
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Final Report on the Youth Transition Demonstration Evaluation
Fraker, Thomas; Mamun, Arif; Honeycutt, Todd; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2014
Transition Demonstration projects, which provided employment-focused services and enhanced financial work incentives to youth … with severe disabilities. Three of the six projects had statistically significant impacts on paid employment during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268680
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Three-Year Impacts of Services and Work Incentives on Youth with Disabilities
Fraker, Thomas; Mamun, Arif; Timmins, Lori - Mathematica Policy Research - 2015
Administration’s Youth Transition Demonstration projects, which provided employment-focused services and enhanced financial work … incentives to youth with severe disabilities. Three of the six projects had statistically significant impacts on paid employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268681
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Firm Performance, Financial Institutions and Corporate Governance in the Netherlands
Chirinko, Robert S.; Ees, Hans van; Garretsen, Harry; … - CESifo - 1999
This paper analyses the impact of share ownership, creditorship and networking by financial institutions on the performance of 94 Dutch non-financial firms in the period 1992-1996. We find a nonlinear relationship between firm performance and ownership by banks. Because of various defense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766022
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Subprime Crisis and Board (In-)Competence: Private vs. Public Banks in Germany
Hau, Harald; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2009
We examine evidence for a systematic underperformance of Germany’s state-owned banks in the current financial crisis and study if the bank losses can be traced to the quality of bank governance. For this purpose, we examine the biographical background of 593 supervisory board members in the 29...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051557
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Diversification and Ownership Concentration
Parigi, Bruno Maria; Pelizzon, Loriana - CESifo - 2005
We consider a mean-variance general equilibrium economy where the expected returns for controlling and non-controlling shareholders are different because the former are able to divert a fraction of the profits. We find that when investor protection is poor, asset return correlation affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181426