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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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Attending college seems to be a profitable and affordable investment in the US. Nevertheless, a number of academically talented young people still hesitate to attend college. This puzzle motivates this paper to test for whether college education is a risky investment. To measure the riskiness of...
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Ever since Adam Smith, share contracts have been condemned for their lack of incentives. Sharecropping tenants face incentives to undersupply productive inputs since they receive only a fraction of the marginal revenue. The empirical literature reports that lands under sharecropping are less...
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We use new firm-level data to examine the effects of spinoffs and privatization on corporate performance in a rapidly … depends on the resulting ownership structure – sometime improving performance and sometime bringing about decline that is … changes in ownership when analyzing spinoffs and generally to control for endogeneity, selection and data attrition when …
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equilibrium in the long run. Resulting from the endogeneity problem of the variables involved, two-stage least squares was applied …
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The study of the territorial/regional development in Spain has nowadays a relatively long tradition, but from the point of view of cities development the number of studies and documents decreases drastically. This paper tries to improve the knowledge of the Spanish urban system. The aim of this...
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An exogenous impact function is defined as the derivative of a structural function with respect to an endogenous variable, other variables, including unobservable variables held fixed. Unobservable variables are fixed at specific quantiles of their marginal distributions. Exogenous impact...
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This is the first study evaluating publication performances of economists and economics departments in Turkey. Findings show wide gaps between the Top-Five economics departments and economists affiliated to these universities and the others. Publication patterns of Turkish economists are the...
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We measure the loss potential of Hedge Funds by combining three market risk measures: VaR, Draw-Down and Time Under-The-Water. Calculations are carried out considering three different frameworks regarding Hedge Fund returns: i) Normality and time-independence, ii) Non-normality and time-...
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hedge funds performance using various asset-pricing models, including an extension form of Carhart's (1997) model combined …, Equity non- Hedge and Sector funds. We analyse the performance of ehdge funds and the persistence in performance for … calculations for several individual hedge fund strategies. We showed there is a proof of persistence in performance in some cases …
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