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Energy Saving by Firms: Decision-Making, Barriers and Policies
Groot, Henri L.F.M. de; Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
Promoting investments in energy saving technologies is an important means for achieving environmental goals. Unfortunately, the empirical evidence on success conditions of policies is scarce. Based on a survey among Dutch firms, this paper sets out to identify the factors that determine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137331
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Ownership Structure, Investment Behavior and Firm Performance in Japanese Manufacturing Industries
Gedajlovic, E.R.; Yoshikawa, T.; Hashimoto, M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2001
Using data spanning the 1996-1998 fiscal years of 247 of Japan's largest manufacturers, we empirically evaluate the extent to which a firm's investment behavior and financial performance is influenced by its ownership structure. To do so, we examine six distinct categories of Japanese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005288569
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Capital Flight and Investment Dynamics in Nigeria: A Time Series Analysis (1970-2006)
Adesoye, A. Bolaji; Maku, Olukayode E.; Atanda, Akinwande A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study critically examines the implications of capital flight on investment growth in Nigeria between 1970 and 2006, because of the consequential effect it has on economic growth. The time series data properties incorporated were examined using the Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) unit root...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397182
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Determinants of Individual Investor Behaviour: An Orthogonal Linear Transformation Approach
Chandra, Abhijeet; Kumar, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Expected utility theory views the individual investment decision as a tradeoff between immediate consumption and deferred consumption. But individuals do not always prefer according to the classical theory of economics. Recent studies on individual investor behavior have shown that they do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008873558
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Energy Saving by Firms: Decision-Making, Barriers and Policies
Groot, Henri L.F.M. de; Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
Promoting investments in energy saving technologies is an important means forachieving environmental goals. Unfortunately, the empirical evidence on successconditions of policies isscarce. Based on a survey among Dutch firms, this paper sets out to identify thefactors that determine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256393
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Equity-based Financial Slack and New Venture Performance: Evidence from matched single-founder ventures
Morgan, Horatio M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines whether equity-based financial slack in the form of relatively high levels of founding equity will systematically hurt new venture performance. Drawing on data on 445 single-founder new ventures over the period 2004-2007, it uses the propensity score matching method to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107944
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Equity-based Financial Slack and New Venture Performance: Evidence from matched single-founder ventures
Morgan, Horatio M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines whether equity-based financial slack in the form of relatively high levels of founding equity will systematically hurt new venture performance. Drawing on data on 445 single-founder new ventures over the period 2004-2007, it uses the propensity score matching method to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110946
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The Emergence of a Private Business Sector in China
Krug, B.; Hendrischke, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2001
This paper is part of a broader research project that aims to analyse the emerging private business sector in China by focusing on three topics.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005505048
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Determinanten des Erfolgs staatlich geförderter Existenzgründungen – eine empirische Untersuchung
Sandner, Philipp G.; Block, Jörn H.; Lutz, Andreas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
die Entrepreneurship-Forschung sowie für die Entrepreneurship-Praxis werden diskutiert. Herausforderungen aus Sicht der …-AG” or “me-plc” in January 2003, this share has increased strongly. Entrepreneurship research so far has said very little … perspective of entrepreneurship research as well as from a perspective of governmental start-up policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518229
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What's New About the New Economy? Sources of growth in the managed and entrepreneurial economies
Audretsch, D.B.; Thurik, A.R. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2000
in the era of entrepreneurship, scholars have been slow to respond. This paper attempts to make a first step identifying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005450942