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Resource-based theory and mergers & acquisitions success
Grill, Polina; Bresser, Rudi K. F. - 2011
Mergers & acquisitions (M&A) are most popular external growth strategies. While the number of M&A has been increasing during the past decades, on average, only the shareholders of target firms gain value during the acquisitions process, while acquirers do not receive abnormal positive returns....
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On the Production of Victory : Empirical Determinants of Battlefield Success in Modern War
Rotte, Ralph; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021
emphasis on technology which can be found in the recent literature, our estimation results indicate that numerical superiority …
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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
Aghion, Philippe - 2017
What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great...
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The transmission of sectoral shocks across the innovation network
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Pu, Zhaoxin - 2020
Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries …
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Public procurement as an innovation policy : where do we stand?
Chiappinelli, Olga; Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Spagnolo, … - 2023
Economics and innovation scholars have long recognized the potential of public procurement to trigger innovation. To …? This paper addresses these issues by providing a literature survey of research on public procurement of innovation (PPI …: i) Does PPI spur innovation? ii) How should PPI be designed to best spur innovation? iii) What are the main barriers to …
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A curse or a blessing? : natural resources in a multiple growth regimes analysis
Konte, Maty - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 25/27, pp. 3760-3769
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Evaluating education systems
Gravel, Nicholas; Levavasseur, Edward; Moyes, Patrick - In: Applied economics 53 (2021) 45, pp. 5177-5207
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Is local bias a cross-border phenomenon? : evidence from individual investors’ international asset allocation
Baltzer, Markus; Stolper, Oscar; Walter, Andreas - 2013
Extant literature consistently documents that investors tilt their domestic equity portfolios towards regionally close stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors’ local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead also determines their international investment...
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Eudaimonic happiness as a leading health indicator : cross-country European evidence
Becchetti, Leonardo; Bachelet, Maria Jua; Pisani, Fabio - In: Applied economics 52 (2020) 43, pp. 4726-4744
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Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
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