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Performance Related Pay Coverage in the UK
Cowling, Marc - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
A simple model of the firms’ decision to pay workers performance related pay (PRP) is tested using company level data for 1,001 UK private sector businesses. From the basic sample statistics we observe that, on average, 26.5% of workers are covered by PRP systems. Yet this hides the fact that...
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A decomposition analysis of capital structure: evidence from Pakistan’s manufacturing sector
Javed, Attiya Yasmin; Imad, Qaisar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
tradeoff theory. Firms generating high levels of profit, however, may choose to finance their investments using internal … of the inertia effect and industry-specific effects, and are robust to alternative estimation techniques. …
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The dividend strategy of Indian companies: An empirical assessment
Ghosh, Saibal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper uses firms across different ownership categories to examine the factors influencing dividend policy. The results suggest that bigger, mature and low-leveraged firms tend to pay more dividends. As well, the findings suggest that bigger, less profitable and high-leveraged firms are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008871194
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On the distributional properties of size, pro fit and growth of Icelandic firms
Erlingsson, Einar Jón; Alfarano, Simone; Raberto, Marco; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
empirical analysis of total assets, profit rates and growth rates using a data set of 2818 Icelandic firms during the period … small size and private ownership. Another important finding is that the profit rates, or return on assets, of Icelandic … distributional regularities, namely the power law behavior of firms' size and laplacian distributions of growth and profit rates …
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The Deindustrialization of Istanbul
Dogruel, Fatma; Dogruel, A. Suut - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Istanbul and Adana are among the oldest and important industrial zones of Turkey. However, the shares of these two regions in the Turkish manufacturing sector substantially decreased after the year 1980. Initially, Adana was a center for the textile industry and the textile was the engine of the...
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A Note on the Link between Firm Size and Exports
Hernandez, Pedro J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper re-examines the link between firm size and exports in order to study the proposal that consists of increasing the firm size to raise exports as a way out of the current economic crisis. The elasticity of export propensity (percentage of exported sales) with respect to firm size...
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The merger paradox and why aspiration levels let it fail in the laboratory
Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A.; Müller, Wieland; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We study the merger paradox, a relative of Harsanyi's bargaining paradox, in an experiment. We examine bilateral mergers in experimental Cournot markets with initially three or four firms. Standard Cournot-Nash equilibrium predicts total outputs well. However, merged firms produce significantly...
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Competition for FDI with vintage investment and agglomeration advantages
Konrad, Kai A.; Kovenock, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Countries compete for new FDI investment, whereas stocks of FDI generate agglomeration benefits and are potentially subject to extortionary taxation. We study the interaction between these aspects in a simple vintage capital framework with discrete time and an infinite horizon, focussing on...
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Management-Employee Relations, Firm Size and Job Satisfaction
Tansel, Aysit; Gazioglu, Saziye - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation . Next various measues of job satisfaction are related to the …
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“Post financial crisis and exports expansion: Micro-evidence from Chilean exporters”
Álvarez, Roberto; Sáez, Camila - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper analyzes the performance of Chilean exporting firms during the period after the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. After the crisis, world imports increased sustainably, which was used by Chilean firms in particular and the country in general. Specifically, larger firms, and those...
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