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Do undergraduate majors or Ph.D. students affect faculty size?

Becker, William E.; Greene, William H.; Siegfried, John J. - 2010

Regression analysis using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 14 years suggests that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...

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Democratization and the size of government : evidence from the long 19th century

Aidt, Toke; Jensen, Peter Sandholt - 2013

We study the consequences of franchise extension and ballot reform for the size of government in Western Europe between 1820 and 1913. We find that franchise extension exhibits a U-shaped association with revenue per capita and a positive association with spending per capita. Instrumental...

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Why are small firms different? : managers views

Agell, Jonas - 2003

Do incentives in small organizations differ from those in large ones? This paper uses a representative survey of compensation managers to shed light on the issues. I find that (i) small establishments rely less on pecuniary incentives, and have a significantly more hostile attitude towards...

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Growth and earnings persistence in banking firms: a dynamic panel investigation

Shehzad, Choudhry Tanveer; Haan, Jakob de; Scholtens, Bert - 2009

volatility of growth and profitability are bank-size dependent, and (iii) the relationship between growth and profitability of a … bank. Using a dynamic panel model estimated by GMM for a mixed sample of more than 1500 banks from 65 countries, we find no … evidence of persistence in bank growth. However, our findings suggest significant persistence in bank profitability. Moreover …

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Are bigger banks better? : firm-level evidence from Germany

Huber, Kilian - 2020

quasi-exogenous increases in bank size in postwar Germany. I show that firms did not grow faster after their relationship …, but worked with riskier borrowers. Bank managers benefited through higher salaries and media attention. The paper presents …

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Unraveling firms : demand, productivity and markups heterogeneity

Forlani, Emanuele; Martin, Ralf; Mion, Giordano; Muls, … - 2016 - First draft: 16th June 2015. This draft: January 15, 2016

We develop a new econometric framework that simultaneously allows recovering heterogeneity in demand, TFP and markups across firms while leaving the correlation among the three unrestricted. We do this by systematically exploiting assumptions that are implicit in previous firm-level productivity...

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Firm size and diversification : asymmetric multiproduct firms under Cournot competition

Grossmann, Volker - 2003

A positive relationship between firm size and product diversification is a long-standing stylized fact. However, so far there is no appropriate theoretical model to explain the underlying forces of this observation. This paper analyzes an oligopoly model with asymmetric multiproduct frms, which...

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Firm size and monetary policy transmission : evidence from German business survey data : presented at CEFifo conference "Academic Use of ifo Survey Data", December 2003

Ehrmann, Michael - 2004

Using business survey data on German manufacturing firms, this paper provides tests for hypotheses formulated in capital market imperfection theories that predict distributional effects in the transmission of monetary policy. The business conditions of small firms are found to be somewhat more...

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Size matters : corruption perceptions versus corruption experiences by firms

Goel, Rajeev K.; Mazhar, Ummad; Ram, Rati - 2021

This study uses a large firm-level data set covering more than 80 countries to explore the effects of firm-size, city-size, and government-size on perceived and experienced corruption. Four points summarize our main findings, which seem instructive and new. First, there is a broad structural...

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Large and influential : firm size and governments' corporate tax rate choice

Riedel, Nadine; Simmler, Martin - 2018

Theory suggests that large firms are more likely to engage in lobbying behaviour and are geographically more mobile than smaller entities. Conditional on jurisdiction size, policy choices are thus predicted to depend on the shape of a jurisdiction’s firm size distribution, with more...

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