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Survival of new firms in the Brazilian franchising segment : an empirical study
Façanha, Luis Otávio; Resende, Marcelo; Cardoso, Vicente - 2011
The paper investigates survival patterns of Brazilian franchising firms during the 1994-1999 period. First, at a more descriptive level one considered the (percentage) survival of newly created franchisors in the following years. The evidence indicated a drastic decay in survival after only a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011145
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Did globalization influence credit market deregulation?
Eppinger, Peter S.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015
We investigate whether globalization influenced credit market deregulation over the period 1970-2010. Globalization is … measured by the KOF indices of globalization. Credit market deregulation is measured by the credit market freedom indicators of … positive correlation between globalization and credit market deregulation. We account for reverse causality by using predicted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528971
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Financial development and inequality in the global economy
Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2016
We build a heterogeneous-firms model with firm-specific wages and credit frictions to study the role of financial development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434439
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Global production linkages and stock market comovement
Auer, Raphael A.; Iwadate, Bruce; Schrimpf, Andreas; … - 2023
Although real integration conceptually plays an important role for the comovement of international equity markets, documenting this link empirically has proven challenging. We construct a new dataset of theory-guided, relevant measures of bilateral trade in final and intermediate goods and...
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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020
Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270354
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Are bigger banks better? : firm-level evidence from Germany
Huber, Kilian - 2020
The effects of large banks on the real economy are theoretically ambiguous and politically controversial. I identify quasi-exogenous increases in bank size in postwar Germany. I show that firms did not grow faster after their relationship banks became bigger. In fact, opaque borrowers grew more...
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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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The Scandinavian model : prospects and challenges
Andersen, Torben M. (contributor) - 2007
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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
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 country/industry level data for 21 EU countries on employment, trade in … partners. We study the employment structure by looking at the shares of managers and manual workers, which reflect the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012692280
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The new Ricardian specific factor model
Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2021
This paper explores the implications on trade and wage inequality of introducing financial capital or credit in the standard Ricardian model of production, where a given amount of start-up credit is used to employ sector specific skilled and unskilled workers following the Wage Fund approach of...
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