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Dong, Ming; Robinson, Chris; Veld, Chris - EconWPA - 2004

The question of why individual investors want dividends is investigated by submitting a questionnaire to a Dutch investor panel. The respondents indicate that they want dividends partly because the cost of cashing in dividends is lower than the cost of selling shares. Their answers provide...

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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development

Batra, Geeta; Kaufmann, Daniel; Stone, Andrew H. W. - EconWPA - 2004

of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey”, and based on a chapter in “Pathways Out of Poverty: Private … the World Business Environment Survey (WBES). It shows that important dimensions for the climate of business operation and … investment climate. The survey findings suggest that key policy, institutional and governance indicators affect the growth of a …

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Offshore investment by Australian firms: survey evidence

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

This paper presents the findings of a new survey by the Commission on what motivates Australian firms to operate or … Australian firms of operations overseas typically complements their domestic activities. The survey confirms that relatively few …

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The Economic Costs of Corruption: A Survey and New Evidence

Dreher, Axel; Herzfeld, Thomas - EconWPA - 2005

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic costs of corruption. Corruption affects economic growth, the level of GDP per capita, investment activity, international trade and price stability negatively. Additionally, it biases the composition of government expenditures. The...

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ANALYSIS OF THE DECISION MAKING PROCESSES IN NPD PROJECTS WITHIN INNOVATIVE COMPANIES. AN EMPIRICAL STUDY IN THE VALENCIAN REGION (SPAIN)

Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel Zabala; Melón, Mónica García - EconWPA - 2005

The decisions made during the design process have a critical impact both on the design solution obtained but also on the design process itself. It can be observed that while the way in which products are developed differs not only across firms but within the same firm over time, what is being...

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MyQuestLight User’s Guide

Yossifov, Plamen - EconWPA - 2003

MyQuestLight is a free Excel add-in for processing questionnaire responses, which can be downloaded from IDEAS (search under Software Components). It leverages on Excel’s flexibility in organizing data, supplementing it with a set of powerful tools for automating the inputting of questionnaire...

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Risk and Insurance in Sharecropping

Braido, Luis H.B. - EconWPA - 2005

This essay summarizes some recent empirical contributions on two aspects of sharecropping: (i) the effects of the contractual form (incentive power and contract length) on resource allocation and farm performance; and (ii) the exogenous elements behind the choice of different contractual forms.

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Exports and Productivity: A Survey of the Evidence fro Firm Level Data

Wagner, Joachim - EconWPA - 2005

While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated empirically using aggregate data for countries and industries for a long time, only recently have comprehensive longitudinal data at the firm level been used to look at the extent and...

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R&D and Subsidies at the Firm Level: An Application of Parametric and Semi-Parametric Two-Step Selection Models

Hussinger, Katrin - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyzes the effects of public subsidies on R&D expenditure in the German manufacturing sector. The focus is on the question whether public R&D funding stimulates or crowds out private investment. Cross sectional data at the firm level is used. By applying parametric and...

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VERTICAL R&D SPILLOVERS, COOPERATION, MARKET STRUCTURE, AND INNOVATION

Atallah, Gamal - EconWPA - 2000

are taken into account. The paper proposes a theory of innovation and market structure, showing that the relation between … innovation and competition depends on horizontal spillovers, vertical spillovers, and cooperative settings. The private …

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