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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320536
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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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Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data
Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; … - 2019
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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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The impact of natural disasters on banks' impairment flow : evidence from Germany
Shala, Iliriana; Schumacher, Benno - 2022
German banks, this paper explores how regionally less diversified banks in Germany adjusted their loan loss provisioning … following the severe summer flood of 2013, which affected widespread regions mostly in Eastern Germany. The analysis uses a … difference-in-differences estimation with banks being allocated to the treatment and control group based on the region of their …
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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change : evidence from the auto industry
Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hémous, David - 2012
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Distorted innovation: does the market get the direction of technology right?
Acemoglu, Daron - 2023
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The effect of investing abroad on investment at home : on the role of technology, tax savings, and internal capital markets
Goldbach, Stefan; Nagengast, Arne J.; Steinmüller, Elias; … - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between foreign and domestic investment activity of multinational enterprises. The empirical analysis is based on micro data of German firms and their operations at home and abroad, including information on investment in fixed assets. The empirical approach,...
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