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Financial Development and Export Concentration
Unger, Florian - 2023
This paper analyzes the impact of financial development on export concentration. I incorporate credit constraints into a trade model with heterogeneous exporters and endogenous quality choice. The model predicts that financial development increases innovation activity and export shares of larger...
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Concentration in International Markets : Evidence from US Imports
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino - 2021
, foreign entry and industry growth. These facts suggest that intensified competition in international markets coexists with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235106
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Trust, Investment and Competition : Theory and Evidence from German Car Manufacturers
Calzolari, Giacomo - 2019
Based on data from a comprehensive benchmarking study on buyer-supplier relationships in the German automotive industry, we show that more trust in a relationship is associated with higher idiosyncratic investment by suppliers and better part quality - but also with more competition among...
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Would My Driving Pattern Change If My Neighbor Were to Buy an Emission-Free Car?
Kverndokk, Snorre - 2019
Aiming to reduce the number of brown (polluting) cars on the road, several countries currently promote the purchase and use of green (emission-free) cars through financial and non-financial incentives. We study how such incentives affect consumers who continue to drive brown cars. Using a simple...
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How Do Financial Crises Redistribute Risk?
Mitchener, Kris James; Vossmeyer, Angela - 2023
the system, and that merger policies commonly used to deal with troubled financial institutions during crises have …
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Corporate Acquisitions and Firm-Level Uncertainty : Domestic versus Cross-Border Deals
Bai, Ye - 2020
This paper studies the impact of corporate acquisitions - both domestic and cross-border - on the uncertainty faced by acquiring firms. We use data for UK publicly-listed firms from 2004 to 2017 and employ a matching estimator combined with difference-in-differences to control for the endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841927
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Mergers in the Digital Economy
Gautier, Axel - 2020
Over the period 2015-2017, the five giant technologically leading firms, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (GAFAM) acquired 175 companies, from small start-ups to billion dollar deals. By investigating this intense M&A, this paper ambitions a better understanding of the Big Five's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842674
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Non-Horizontal Mergers with Investments into Compatibility
Langus, Gregor - 2019
compatibility and can engage in bundling. We consider the impact of merger on prices, investment and consumer surplus. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871025
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Dynamic Mergers Effects on R&D Investments and Drug Development Across Research Phases in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Siebert, Ralph - 2020
effects of M&As on firms' post-merger R&D investments and drug development capabilities across drug development phases. This … study builds on a novel database that enables us to evaluate the post-merger effect at the research project level and across … examine the direct and indirect merger effects on R&D capabilities across development phases. We find that M&As have a strong …
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25 Years of European Merger Control
Affeldt, Pauline - 2020
We study the evolution of EC merger decisions over the first 25 years of common European merger policy. Using a novel … dataset at the level of the relevant antitrust markets and containing all merger cases scrutinized by the Commission over the … definition and the complexity of the merger. Simple, linear probability models as usually applied in the literature overestimate …
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