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The adoption of non-rival inputs and firm scope
Jiang, Xian; Rubinton, Hannah - 2024
Custom software is distinct from other types of capital in that it is non-rival—once a firm makes an investment in custom software, it can be used simultaneously across its many establishments. Using confidential US Census data, we document that while firms with more establishments are more...
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European SMEs and resource efficiency measures : firm characteristics and contextual factors
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Donati, Cristiana; Spagnolo, … - 2023
This paper investigates how access to finance and skilled workforce endowments affect the propensity of European small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt different types of resource efficiency measures (REMs), possibly simultaneously. For this purpose, a Multinomial Logit model is...
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The impact of fintech startups on financial snstitutions' performance and default risk
Haddad, Christian; Hornuf, Lars - 2021 - This version: April 24, 2021
We study the impact fintech startups have on the performance and the default risk of traditional financial institutions. We find a positive relationship between fintech startup formations and incumbent institutions' performance for the period from 2005 to 2018 and a large sample of financial...
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Labor turnover before plant closure : "leaving the sinking ship" vs. "captain throwing ballast overboard"
Schwerdt, Guido (contributor) - 2008
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Vertical foreign direct investment : make, sell and (not) buy
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Sandonís, Joel - 2016
According to conventional wisdom, multinational firms undertake vertical FDI in order to take advantage of cross-border factor cost differences and source the inputs from abroad at better terms. Recent empirical findings though document that this is not always the case. We provide theoretical...
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Asymmetries in global value chain integration, technology and employment structures in Europe : country and sectoral evidence
Bontadini, Filippo; Evangelista, Rinaldo; Meliciani, … - 2021
This paper provides empirical evidence on the complex role played by technology in affecting the relationship between the participation of EU countries and industries in Global Value Chains (GVCs) and their employment structure over the period 2000-2014. The empirical analysis is based on...
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Expatriate managers : effects on firm performance
Koren, Miklós; Telegdy, Álmos - 2024
CEO, we address the selection into both acquisition and CEO hiring. Firms led by expatriate CEOs show 13 percent total …
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Aligning profit taxation with value creation
Richter, Wolfram F. - 2019
The OECD seeks to align transfer pricing and profit taxation with value creation but fails to provide a clear definition. This paper argues that value creation requires international cooperation and that the profit tax base should therefore be allocated according to standards commonly considered...
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The impact of delay : evidence from formal out-of-court restructuring
Srhoj, Stjepan; Kovač, Dejan; Shapiro, Jacob N.; … - 2021
Bankruptcy restructuring procedures are used in most legal systems to decide the fate of businesses facing financial … context of Croatia, which introduced a "pre-bankruptcy settlement" (PBS) process in the wake of the Great Recession of 2007 … effectively delays entry into the standard bankruptcy procedure, leads to a lower rate of survival among debtors as well as re …
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Debt recovery in firm liquidations : do liquidation trustees matter?
Cepec, Jaka; Grajzl, Peter; Zajc, Katarina - 2016
Insolvency systems play a crucial role in protection of creditor rights, yet micro-level empirical evidence on the … functioning of insolvency regimes worldwide is sparse. We investigate whether creditors' recovery of outstanding claims, a measure … of ex-post efficiency of an insolvency regime, depends on the characteristics of the trustee delegated the administration …
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