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Using unique retail and wholesale price data for 4,532 products carried by a major Midwestern grocery retailer, we find evidence of significant retail price rigidity during the Thanksgiving through Christmas holiday period relative to the rest of the year. We suggest that this pattern of holiday...
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The present paper proposes to employ a major shift in the legal and institutional environment to identify contractual incentives from the correlation of executive pay and firm performance. We use the reform of the German stock companies act in 1884 as such a major shift and estimate the...
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We analyze the role of state-ownership in the banking sector from the perspective of competition. Considering both the …
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Arrangements (agreements, contracts, projects, etc.) are widespread economic events and are the fundamental concept of the economic theory. Infringements (breaches, modifications, changes, etc.) of arrangements are common and have a significant importance for the economic theory. For many years...
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This article looks at the past development and potential of the Rhenish capitalist model. We discuss the origins and nature of the model and the model in crisis. Because, we contend, Rhineland capitalism’s future will be decided in East-Central Europe, we focus – using a survey questionnaire...
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article presents an analysis of the changes operated in the Portuguese Banking, where an application of different business …, Networks, Strategy, Banking. …
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liberalization in developed nations. The difficulties borne by the banking sectors spread out in some Asian and Latin American …, then we study some institutional and conceptual solutions. We try to identify the micro-economic banking dimension as a … driving force for the growth. The role of banking system is described in a development process usually facing the apology of …
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bundles in retail banking sector and show how the system of bundles provide an extra value for a customer and profit for a … bank as well. Application of bundling strategies in retail banking reduces a bank's variable cost for selling, secures both … retail banking is building a strong relationship with customer by cross- selling extra bundled products, which leads to a …
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We link banking and asset prices in a simple monetary macroeconomic model. Our main innovation is to consider how wide …-spread default affects the banking system. We find that the interaction of credit, asset prices, and loan losses explains a complete … whether a capital crunch, financial instability, or a banking crisis occurs. But self-fulfilling capital crunches and banking …
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banking sector (i.e., institutions that combine the business of money creation with the business of intermediation). In our …
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