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it differs from the effect of two other important types of financial investors: banks and non-bank financial firms. We … conclusions. The shareholding by PE and bank has influence on out-performance but only if either the PE investor or the bank hold … between 75 to 100 percent of firm's shares. The direction of the effect is opposite. PE has a positive, while bank has a …
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it differs from the effect of two other important types of financial investors: banks and non-bank financial firms. We … conclusions. The shareholding by PE and bank has influence on out-performance but only if either the PE investor or the bank hold … between 75 to 100 percent of firm's shares. The direction of the effect is opposite. PE has a positive, while bank has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128093
Information asymmetries can severely limit cross-border border expansion of banks. When a bank enters a new market, it … financial data on bank clients. We investigate the interaction of credit registers and bank entry modes (in form of branching … and private credit registers and the type of information exchanged affect bank entry modes during the period 1990 …
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The German potable water supply industry is regarded as being highly fragmented, thus inhibiting high potentials for efficiency improvements through consolidation. Focusing on a hypothetical restructuring of the industry, we apply Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to analyze the potential...
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This paper discusses the impact of a firm's technology portfolio on its market value. Two concepts are used to characterize a firm's portfolio: the number of technological fields and the degree of relatedness within the portfolio characterized by the amount of joint occurrences of patents in...
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To quickly adapt to technological change and developments, and thus remain competitive, firms increasingly resort to the use of external technology. This paper investigates whether and to what extent the acquisition of external disembodied technology affects the efficiency and productivity in...
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After 20 years of transition from an economy integrated in an exchange scheme of planned economies towards an open market economy based on the ideas of competition, we ask whether East German firms succeeded in finding their place in the international division of labour. We concentrate on the...
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The traditional approach to measuring allocative efficiency is based on input prices, which are rarely known at the firm level. This paper proposes a new approach to measure allocative efficiency which is based on the output-oriented distance to the frontier in a profit - technical efficiency...
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This paper investigates predictions of Porter's Diamond model regarding the impact of locational factors on innovativeness and performance at the firm level. We formulate a structural equation model based on the relationships between locational conditions, e.g., transportation infrastructure,...
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This paper follows two objectives: (i) It demonstrates the merits of the survey based approach to B2C eCommerce characteristics and company strategy, and (ii) it presents empirical evidence of the crucial importance of size and marketing investment in B2C eCommerce markets. It presents...
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