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The impact of entrepreneurship education in high school on long - term entrepreneurial performance
Elert, Niklas; Andersson, Fredrik; Wennberg, Karl - Ratioinstitutet - 2014
entry, performance, and survival. Using propensity score matching, we compare three Swedish cohorts from Junior Achievement … entrepreneurial incomes, there is no e ffect on firm survival …
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Industry Differences in the Firm Size Distribution
Halvarsson, Daniel - Ratioinstitutet - 2013
stage regression analysis, a number of hypotheses regarding economic variables that may determine the distributional shape …
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Identifying High-Growth Firms
Halvarsson, Daniel - Ratioinstitutet - 2013
This paper investigates the role(s) of high-growth firms (HGFs) in the robust growth-rate distribution. HGFs are identified as firms for which the growth-rate distribution exhibits power-law decay. In contrast to the traditional means of identifying HGFs, a distributional approach eliminates the...
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The Return to R&D and Seller-buyer Interactions: A Quantile Regression Approach
Westerberg, Hans Seerar - Ratioinstitutet - 2014
In this paper we analyze whether a firm’s return to its R&D stock is affected by seller-buyer interactions. We suggest that firms that are in close contact with their customers will be relatively more sensitive to their customers’ needs, and therefore adjust their R&D activities accordingly....
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What determines entry? Evidence from Sweden
Elert, Niklas - Ratioinstitutet - 2012
In the literature concerning the geography of new firm formation, explanatory variables pertaining to industrial organization and political economy are seldom considered. Such variables were thus included when investigating what conditions influenced entry of Swedish limited liability firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096127
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Institutional Ownership and the Returns on Investment
Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Eklund, Johan; Wiberg, Daniel - Ratioinstitutet - 2008
performance. To measure investment performance Mueller and Reardon’s (1993) marginal q is used, although derived directly from … both domestic and foreign institutional owners positively influence firm performance. Furthermore a non-linear relation … between institutional ownership concentration and performance is found. This is consistent with positive incentive effects and …
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Institutional Ownership and Returns on Investment
Bjuggren, Per-Olof; Eklund, Johan; Wiberg, Daniel - Ratioinstitutet - 2013
investment performance we used a measure of marginal q which measures the ratio of the investment returns to cost of capital …. Institutional owners are found to have had a positive effect on performance, with a marginally diminishing effect of institutional … performance, eradicating the positive influence of institutional ownership. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095552
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Offshoring of Services and Corruption: Do Firms Escape Corrupt Countries?
Karpaty, Patrik; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik - Ratioinstitutet - 2012
In this paper, we analyze how the offshoring of services by Swedish firms is affected by corruption in target economies. The results suggest that firms avoid corrupt countries and that corruption reduces the amount of offshored services. In addition, the sensitivity to corruption is highest for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095559
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Dynamic Effects of Corruption on Offshoring
Tingvall, Patrik - Ratioinstitutet - 2011
Abstract: For international outsourcing to occur, agents from different jurisdictions must agree on a contract. Using Swedish firm-level data, we analyze offshoring and how a firm’s choice of target country and the dynamics of offshored volumes are affected by corruption. The results suggest...
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Family Control and Executive Compensation
Palmberg, Johanna - Ratioinstitutet - 2012
more often. The econometric analysis shows that family control and ownership concentration reduce CEO compensation whereas … performance are positively related to CEO compensation. …
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