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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
factors: family ownership and source of the competitive pressure. A novel aspect of our paper is that we rely on two … predictions, sensitivity is higher in competitive sectors and the difference between family and non-family CEOs disappear when … competition is tough. Family CEOs are significantly less paid than non-family CEOs and their pay is significantly related to firm …
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The bright side of the GDPR : welfare-improving privacy management
Choe, Chongwoo; Matsushima, Noriaki; Shekhar, Shiva - 2023
We study the GDPR's opt-in requirement in a model with a firm that provides a digital service and consumers who are heterogeneous in their valuations of the firm's service as well as the privacy costs incurred when sharing personal data with the firm. We show that the GDPR boosts demand for the...
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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...
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A unified theory of firm selection and growth
Arkolakis, Costas - 2009
This paper develops a theory of firm selection and growth and embeds it into an international trade framework of balanced growth. I assume that firm-level growth is the result of idiosyncratic productivity improvements while there is continuous arrival of new potential producers. Firms can also...
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Long-lasting bank relationships and growth of firms
Gambini, Alessandro; Zazzaro, Alberto - 2010
A puzzling but consistent result in the empirical literature on banking is that firms with close bank ties do not grow faster than bank-independent firms. In this paper, we reconsider the link between relationship lending and firms' growth, distinguishing firms by size and "health". The idea is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003981984
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Do entrepreneurs matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013
. We do not find significant differences between small and larger firms, family and non-family firms, nor between firms …
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Concentrating on the fall of the labor share
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - 2017
The recent fall of labor's share of GDP in numerous countries is well-documented, but its causes are poorly understood. We sketch a "superstar firm" model where industries are increasingly characterized by "winner take most" competition, leading a small number of highly profitable (and low labor...
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Credit supply shocks and firm dynamics : evidence from Brazil
Bazzi, Samuel; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Oliveira, Raquel F. - 2023
We explore how financial constraints distort the entry decisions among otherwise productive entrepreneurs and limit growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit constraints can induce more entry of firms with greater long-run...
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Should continued family firms face lower taxes than other estates?
Grossmann, Volker (contributor); Strulik, Holger (contributor) - 2008
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Employee spinouts, social networks, and family firms
Rauch, James E. - 2013
who are members of networks that informally sanction hold-ups or children who keep profits "in the family" even if they … prominence of family-owned business groups in developing country manufacturing. …
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