Showing 1 - 10 of 30
The paper addresses the effect of technological progress on the frontiers of the firm, building on transaction cost theory and agency theory. The model incorporates four types of costs: production, coordination, management, and transaction costs. The market has lower production costs, but higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005838747
The application of this work is to decision taking with financial time-series, using learning algorithms. The traditional approach is to train a model using a prediction criterion, such as minimizing the squared error between predictions and actual values of a dependent variable, or maximizing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627156
We consider changes in the distribution of hourly compensation in Canada using confidential census data and the recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255430
Nous étudions l'évolution récente de l'écart salarial entre les sexes chez les Canadiens nouvellement diplômés des études postsecondaires. Cette comparaison est intéressante car il s'agit d'un groupe relativement homogène de gens instruits, faisant partie d'une même cohorte et presque...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395938
In this paper, we empirically investigate Canadian initial public offerings (IPOs) to provide one case on the international evidence on the long-run performance of IPOs. Specifically, we examine whether the choice of a performance measurement methodology directly determines both the size and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005100659
entreprises qui n'appartiennent pas à cette catégorie, au Canada. La répartition dans les différentes catégories repose sur l …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005100811
observed for the private VC sector in Canada. Finally, the comparison of the returns shows that the public VC market … est prés de quatre fois supérieur à celui mesuré pour le marché privé. Au Canada, le marché public amène sept fois plus de …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005100826
the IPO market in Canada is «good» only for large offerings. We have entertained a number of possible explanations for the … Capital Pool. Les résultats montrent que la sous évaluation initiale persiste au Canada, en moyenne. Toutefois, le degrés de … de taille moyenne et de grande taille semblent correctement évalués au Canada, contrairement à ce que l'on observe sur la …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005100896
in the universe of firm-commitment and best-effort IPOs in Canada and in the United States, from 1997 to 1999, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005100915
This paper measures factor productivities (and hence total factor productivity growth) directly on the basis of the fundamentals of the economy (endowments, preferences and technology), without recourse to market prices. The factor productivities are the Lagrange multipliers of a linear program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005101009