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firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in findings that are sufficiently consistent as to … relationships between firm age and size on the one hand, and survival and growth on the other may, in fact, not be the same in … services. The results suggest that the most fundamental relationships between firm size, age, survival and growth are …
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The Doha multilateral round of trade negotiations sponsored by the WTO has been dragging on for over a decade, with no end in sight. In this short paper we assess empirically what determines the duration of trade negotiations, focusing on the span between the start of trade talks and their...
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, positive or negative, on the survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The empirical analysis uses data from the … that the incidence of take-over reduces employment growth, in particular for unskilled labour. Both survival and employment … lifetime of the acquired plant. Estimations of the determinants of employment growth in domestic plants provide some evidence …
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adult survival rates. In addition, we find that a model that is estimated using only pre-transition data would actually …
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differences, past growth matters for survival suggesting a partial adjustment process for firm size in the post entry period …This paper examines the longevity of entrants. We find size to be an important determinant of the chances of survival …
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We find that active mutual funds perform better after trading more. This time-series relation between a fund’s turnover … to scale, we find evidence of industry-level decreasing returns: The positive turnover-performance relation weakens when …
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investment performance. High trading profits increase turnover, while high returns to equity styles have a short-term negative … Indian stocks with an experienced and low-turnover investor base. …
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We use new training data from waves 3-6 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey to investigate the training and wages of full-time men. We explore the extent to which the data are consistent with the predictions of human capital theory or with recent alternative theories...
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wages of the underbidders. The resulting labor turnover costs create economic rent which the insiders tap in wage …
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This paper analyzes the asset pricing implications of periodic cash payouts within the context of a stationary rational expectations model with heterogeneous investors. The periodicity of cash payouts provides a natural motivation for time-varying conditional volatility in stock returns. I show...
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