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Competition and gender prejudice : are discriminatory employers doomed to fail?
Weber, Andrea; Zulehner, Christine - 2009
manage to survive submit to market powers and increase their female workforce over time. -- firm survival ; profitability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897627
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Stakeholder governance, competition and firm value
Allen, Franklin; Carletti, Elena; Marquez, Robert - 2014
In many countries, the legal system or social norms ensure that firms are stakeholder oriented. We analyze the advantages and disadvantages of stakeholder-oriented firms that are concerned with employees and suppliers compared to shareholder-oriented firms in a model of imperfect competition....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249637
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A class of behavioral models for the profit-maximizing firm
Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2022
We study the behavior of a firm that consistently maximizes a misspecified profit function. We provide an equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013186353
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Market competition or family ties : which prevails on Italian CEOs pay?
Graziano, Clara; Rondi, Laura - 2015 - This draft: June 8, 2015
The paper analyzes the interplay of product market competition and governance on CEO compensation in Italian listed firms from 2000 to 2011 and tests the impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis on pay-performance sensitivity. We argue that important differences both in the level of compensation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280832
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Divide and privatize : firm break-up and performance
Kočenda, Evžen; Hanousek, Jan - 2011
We analyze the long-term effects of firm break-up and ownership change on corporate performance. Our analysis is based on a unique data set for a large number of Czech firms spanning the period 1996-2005. We employ a propensity score matching procedure to deal with endogeneity problems. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130271
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Growth and earnings persistence in banking firms: a dynamic panel investigation
Shehzad, Choudhry Tanveer; Haan, Jakob de; Scholtens, Bert - 2009
This paper investigates (i) whether growth and profitability persist in banking firms, (ii) whether the level and … volatility of growth and profitability are bank-size dependent, and (iii) the relationship between growth and profitability of a … evidence of persistence in bank growth. However, our findings suggest significant persistence in bank profitability. Moreover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883061
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Finance, control, and profitability : the influence of German banks
Chirinko, Robert S.; Elston, Julie Ann Michelle - 2003
problems? [Yes]; 3) do bank influenced firms have higher profitability? [No]. Coupled with results about the control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511071
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Labor market sorting in Germany : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, April 2016
Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2016
This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to reconcile prominent empirical models of wage dispersion (Abowd et al., 1999; Card et al., 2013) with theoretical sorting models (Shimer and Smith, 2000; Eeckhout and Kircher, 2011;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524613
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Do employee spinoffs learn markets from their parents? : evidence from international trade
Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Rauch, James E. - 2018
It is well established that employee spinoffs learn their parents' technologies, but little is known about their demand-side learning. We exploit the identification in international trade data of parent markets (countries) to investigate whether exporting employee spinoffs of exporting parents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794641
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Expatriate managers : effects on firm performance
Koren, Miklós; Telegdy, Álmos - 2024
Using a novel Hungarian dataset on firms and their Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), we estimate the impact of hiring expatriate CEOs. By examining foreign acquisitions where the new owner replaces the incumbent CEO with an expatriate or a local CEO, we address the selection into both acquisition...
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