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Size Matters - "Over"investments in a Relational Contracting Setting

Englmaier, Florian; Fahn, Matthias - CESifo - 2015

The corporate finance literature documents that managers tend to overinvest into physical assets. A number of theoretical contributions have aimed to explain this stylized fact, most of them focussing on a fundamental agency problem between shareholders and managers. The present paper shows that...

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The Commitment Role of Equity Financing

Fahn, Matthias; Merlo, Valeria; Wamser, Georg - CESifo - 2014

Existing theories of a firm’s optimal capital structure seem to fail in explaining why many healthy and profitable firms rely heavily on equity financing, even though benefits associated with debt (like tax shields) appear to be high and the bankruptcy risk low. This holds in particular for...

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Convertible Securities and Venture Capital Finance

Schmidt, Klaus - CESifo - 1999

This paper offers a new explanation for the prevalent use of convertible securities in venture capital finance. Convertible securities can be used to endogenously allocate cash flow rights as a function of the realized quality of the project. This property can be used to mitigate the double...

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Taxing Multinationals in the Presence of Internal Capital Markets

Köthenbürger, Marko; Stimmelmayr, Michael - CESifo - 2013

There is ample evidence that internal capital markets incur efficiency costs for multinational enterprises (MNEs). This paper analyzes whether tax avoidance behavior interacts with the costs of running an internal capital market and how policies of competing governments respond to it. We show...

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Economic-Social Interaction in China

Lindbeck, Assar - CESifo - 2008

This paper analyzes economic-social interaction in China in connection with the country’s change of economic system. I define an economic system in terms of a multidimensional vector of broad institutional characteristics, and I emphasize that important features of the social development are...

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Beyond the Salassa-Samuelson Effect in some New Member States of the European Union

García-Solanes, José; Sancho-Portero, Francisco I.; … - CESifo - 2007

This paper analyses the Balassa and Samuelson hypothesis in two groups of European countries: six New Member States (NMS) and six advanced EU-15 economies. It is found that the second stage of the hypothesis, which relates relative sector prices with the real exchange rate, does not hold...

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Redistribution and Occupational Choice in a Schumpeterian Growth Model

Wen, Jean-François; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia - CESifo - 2004

We consider an R&D-driven endogenous growth model in which innovation is risky and agents are risk averse. Growth is … social insurance, thus encouraging innovation and accelerating growth. The general equilibrium effects of the reallocation of …

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Venture Capital Backed Growth

Keuschnigg, Christian - CESifo - 2002

The paper proposes a simple equilibrium model of venture capital, entrepreneurship and innovation. Venture capitalists … productive and active VC industry boosts innovation driven growth. …

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The Impact of Continuous Training on a Firm’s Innovations

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2008

Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in … innovation within a multivariate regression framework. However, when instrumenting training by the existence of a union …

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Heavyweights – The Impact of Large Businesses on Productivity Growth

Falck, Oliver - CESifo - 2007

The idea of an industrial policy that promotes large businesses—heavyweights—as the best way to compete in a globalized world has become, again, en vogue among European politicians. The only apparent controversy about the idea revolves around whether it is better to promote national...

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