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contrast to claims made by some researchers, state ownership may influence economic efficiency as well as exercise several …The objective in this paper is to improve the existing evidence regarding the role ownership plays in economic … efficiency. It is pursued through enhancements in modeling, estimation techniques, and experimental design. With respect to …
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Questo paper considera il venture capital come forma di finanziamento che si realizza in quegli ambienti dove i fallimenti di mercato causati da problemi informativi sono tali da non rendere possibile l'affermazione di altre istituzioni finanziarie, e dove questa si affermi come unica forma di...
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We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a population of firms in a model large … private ownership improve dynamic post-privatization performance. Concentrated foreign (but not domestic) ownership improves … some measures of performance relative to state ownership. Foreign investors engage in strategic restructuring by increasing …
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, this paper explores the relationship between firm performance and ownership in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the …
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models of investment and test if investment behavior varies across categories of ownership and with the legal status of firms … ownership-legal form categories of firms. Retained profit is found to be a major determinant of new investment and the estimate … owned-limited liability companies and foreign owned and mixed ownership firms. These results are consistent with the …
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The upgrading of the Greek capital market and the effort to join other mature capital markets has posed corporate governance reform as a first priority. In addition, the 2004 Olympic Games put the Greek market in the international spotlight and will likely invite interest from foreign investors....
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discrimination ensures efficient output decisions given product characteristics, coordination failures may prevent efficiency in the …
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This paper develops a model of pricing and advertising in a matching environment with capacity constrained sellers. Sellers' expenditure on directly informative advertising attracts consumers only probabilistically. Consumers who happen to observe advertisements randomize over the advertised...
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Using a large firm level panel data set from four Asian countries, this paper compares the returns to various internal and external funds. A novel feature of our analysis is that we distinguish between financially constrained and unconstrained firms and determine selectivity-corrected estimates...
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The efficiency of speculative markets, as represented by Fama's 1970 fair game model, is tested on weekly price index … efficiency of nervous systems. In particular, the stationarity and independence of the price innovations are tested over ten … stock market efficiency is: Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Singapore's stock market pricing …
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