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What Drives Home Market Advantage?
Cosar, Kerem - 2015
In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms earn their highest market share within their domestic market. This home market advantage persists despite substantial integration of international markets during the past several decades. The goal of this paper is to quantify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012565
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The Genesis of Venture Capital - Lessons from the German Experience
Becker, Ralf M. - 2004
Why does venture capital work in some countries but not in others? This clinical study of the first German venture capital firm examines the difficulties of creating a venture capital market in a bank-based financial system. The analysis identifies the problem of creating appropriate governance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012786084
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Subprime Crisis and Board (In-)Competence : Private vs. Public Banks in Germany
Hau, Harald - 2013
We examine evidence for a systematic underperformance of Germany's state-owned banks in the current financial crisis and study if the bank losses can be traced to the quality of bank governance. For this purpose, we examine the biographical background of 593 supervisory board members in the 29...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753172
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Fundamentals, Misvaluation, and Investment : The Real Story
Chirinko, Robert S. - 2013
Is real investment fully determined by fundamentals or is it sometimes affected by stock market misvaluation? We introduce three new tests that: measure the reaction of investment to sales shocks for firms that may be overvalued; use Fama-MacBeth regressions to determine whether overinvestment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753993
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The Extensive Margin of Exporting Products : A Firm-Level Analysis
Arkolakis, Costas - 2011
We use a panel of Brazilian exporters, their products, and destination markets to document a set of regularities for multi-product exporters: (i) few top-selling products account for the bulk of a firm's exports in a market, (ii) the distribution of exporter scope (the number of products per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131349
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Technological Regimes in the Brazilian Manufacturing Industry : An Empirical Investigation
Vieira, Vinicius - 2013
The paper aims at assessing technological regimes in the context of the Brazilian manufacturing industry along the 2000-2005 period. The industries were classified in terms of SM-I and SM-II technological regimes by means of multivariate statistical methods based on variable approximating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086613
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Service Quality in Electricity Distribution in Brazil : A Malmquist Approach
Marinho, Alexandre - 2017
The paper undertakes a dynamic analysis for service quality in the electricity distribution in Brazil between 2010 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963595
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The Deepening China Brazil Economic Relationship
Whalley, John - 2015
We document key features of the deepening economic relationship between Brazil and China. This is evident from sharply … international fora. Data presented show bilateral trade between Brazil and China surging after 2001 and China is now Brazil …'s largest export market while Brazil's export share to the US has halved. The number of bilateral cooperation agreements between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038340
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Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage : Evidence from Brazil
Engbom, Niklas - 2017
We quantify the effect of a minimum wage on compression throughout the earnings distribution. Using the case of Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960361
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Labour Market Participation in Brazil : A Discrete Game Approach
Resende, Marcelo - 2017
The paper aims to investigate the labour market participation of couples in Brazil in 2013. The observed endogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961059