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Foreign Banks in Transition Economies: Small Business Lending and Internal Capital Markets
Haas, Ralph de; Naaborg, Ilko - EconWPA - 2005
’ credit supply towards large multinational corporations. Instead, increased competition and the improvement of subsidiaries … bank affiliates are strongly influenced by the capital allocation and credit steering mechanisms of the parent bank. The … credit growth of subsidiaries therefore potentially depends on the financial health of the foreign based parent bank. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125553
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Emerging Hubs in Central-Eastern Europe, Trade Blocs and Financial Co-operation.
Tattara, Giuseppe - EconWPA - 2005
Many European countries have faced the erosion of the competitive advantage in the international market with a mixed strategy of productivity increase at home and labour cost reduction abroad, through the international fragmentation of production and subcontracting in low wage countries. Italy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412982
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Initiative, Incentives and Soft Information. How Does Delegation Impact The Role of Bank Relationship Managers?
Liberti, Jose Maria - EconWPA - 2004
commercial bank in Argentina between 1999 and 2001. Using detailed hand collected data on credit approvals, as well as perceived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077034
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Heterogeneity in Price Rigidity: Evidence from a Case Study Using Micro-Level Data
Levy, Daniel; Dutta, Shantanu; Bergen, Mark - EconWPA - 2004
We combine two data sets to study price rigidity. The first consists of weekly time series of retail, wholesale, and spot prices for twelve products. These time series contain two exogenous cost shocks. We find that prices exhibit more rigidity in response to the second shock than the first. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412696
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Innovation and Business Growth through Corporate Venturing in Latin America: Analysis of Strategic Fit
Rajagopal - EconWPA - 2005
Corporate venturing as a strategy for international business development has become significant in view of the process of globalization resulting into the free trade and business development opportunities for multinational companies. This study is based on empirical investigation through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076887
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Privatization, Corporate Control and Regulatory Reform: The case of Telefonica
Bel, Germa; Trillas, Francesc - EconWPA - 2004
This study analyzes the interaction of agency problems in public policy and of agency problems inside the firm: it investigates the case of a large privatized firm subject to many policy constraints. The last steps of Telefonica's privatization were designed to promote a disperse ownership and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413213
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Corporate Governance as an instrument of change state owned Corporate Governance as an instrument of change state owned companies: The case of the Hellenic Telecommunications Organ...
Spanos, Loukas; Papoulias, Demetrios - EconWPA - 2005
This paper analyses the evolution of Corporate Governance (CG) mechanisms and organizational changes of the Hellenic Telecommunication Organization (HTO) and has two objectives: to enrich the debate and to contribute to the increasing body of literature by examining and analyzing the...
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Royalty rates, sub licensing considerations and joint ventures.
Malki, Elli - EconWPA - 1997
Technology transfer agreements between universities and industrial companies usually involve royalties, sublicensing considerations and allocation of equity. This article extends the analysis of my previous one ("The Economic Sense of Royalty Rates", ewp-fin/970903)to deal with sublicensing...
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The economic sense of royalty rates.
Malki, Elli - EconWPA - 1997
Academic institutions, involved in technology transfer to industry, are always concerned about the "fairness" of the royalty rate payable to them. The common method used by practitioners is the "Industry-Standard Approach" which is based mainly on past experience. However such approach is very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134686
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How Do Firms Choose Their Lenders? An Empirical Investigation
Cantillo, Miguel; Wright, Julian - EconWPA - 1998
intermediaries. Our empirical results show that large companies with abundant cash and collateral tap the credit markets directly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134863