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Subprime crisis and board (in-)competence : private vs. public banks in Germany
Hau, Harald; Thum, Marcel - 2009
supervisory board (in-)competence in finance is related to losses in the financial crisis. Improved bank governance is therefore a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850179
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Lame ducks and divided government : how voters control the unaccountable
Schelker, Mark - 2011
The ability of voters to use the available electoral instruments is crucial for the functioning of democracies. The paper shows that voters consider the institutional environment when making electoral decisions. Voters recognize that executives who face binding term limits (i.e., "lame ducks")...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240023
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Political leader survival : does competence matter?
Yu, Shu; Jong-A-Pin, Richard - 2013
We examine whether economic and military competence of political leaders affect their duration in office. We introduce … presence of a revolutionary threat, economic competence is negatively related to political survival, but that the effect is … moderated by the size of the winning coalition. As military and economic competence are negatively correlated, the opposite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204673
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The next wave of energy innovation : which technologies? Which skills?
Popp, David; Vona, Francesco; Grégoire-Zawilski, Myriam; … - 2022
The costs of low-carbon energy fell dramatically over the past decade, leading to rapid growth in its deployment. However, many challenges remain to deploy low-carbon energy at a scale necessary to meet net zero carbon emission targets. We argue that developing complementary technologies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337365
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Work organization, wage pressure in the secondary labor market, and the green card
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2001
Two trends have marked the politico-economic discussion in many industrialized countries in recent years. On the one hand, international production, workplace decentralization, shareholder orientation and generous manager remuneration have changed the face of firms in the primary economy. On the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398875
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Capital accumulation and unemployment : a tale of two continents
Malley, James R.; Moutos, Thomas - 2000
In contrast to much recent work regarding the causes of European unemployment, in this paper, we emphasise the importance of capital accumulation. But unlike the few previous studies which have examined the relationship between capital accumulation and unemployment, we argue that what matters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781506
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Learning and the value of relationships in international trade
Monarch, Ryan; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - 2016
How valuable are long-term supplier relationships? To address this question, this paper explores relationships between U.S. importers and their suppliers abroad. We first establish several facts: almost half of U.S. imports are in relationships three years or older, relationship survival and...
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Behavioral New Keynesian models : learning vs. cognitive discounting
Meggiorini, Greta; Milani, Fabio - 2021
This paper estimates a New Keynesian model with new and old behavioral elements. Agents in the model exhibit cognitive discounting, or myopia: they discount variables far into the future at higher rates than typically implied in the benchmark model. We investigate the model under different...
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The dynamics of outsourcing : from labor cost-saving to preference-based outsourcing
Cheng, Wan-jung; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; Wang, Ping - 2020
Ronald W. Jones (2000) celebrated book has inspired a generation of work that has been devoted to understanding the causes and consequences of outsourcing. While much of this work has focused on the outsourcing versus domestic production decision of the firm with labor cost-saving as the key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012211546
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Distribution and use of knowledge under the laws of the web
Falkinger, Josef (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624471