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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 … indicated a drastic decay in survival after only a few years and contrasts with the higher survival of firms in the franchising … favoring a positive role for firm size on survival. -- franchising ; survival …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011145
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Government guarantees and bank risk taking incentives
Fischer, Markus; Hainz, Christa; Rocholl, Jörg; … - 2014
This paper analyzes the effect of the removal of government guarantees on bank risk taking. We exploit the removal of guarantees for German Landesbanken which results in lower credit ratings, higher funding costs, and a loss in franchise value. This removal was announced in 2001, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257239
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Democracy and international conflict
Vesperoni, Alberto; Wärneryd, Karl - 2016
of franchise extensions in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States. …
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Financial constraints and moral hazard : the case of franchising
Fan, Ying; Kühn, Kai-Uwe; Lafontaine, Francine - 2013
decisions and growth of principals, in the context of franchising. We find that a 30 percent decrease in average … collateralizable housing wealth in a region delays chains ́entry into franchising by 0.28 years on average, 9 percent of the average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210716
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The political economy of the Prussian three-class franchise
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik - 2019
Did the Prussian three-class franchise, which politically over-represented the economic elite, affect policy-making? Combining MP-level political orientation, derived from all roll call votes in the Prussian parliament (1867-1903), with constituency characteristics, we analyze how local vote...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012065064
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Franchise extension and fiscal structure in the United Kingdom 1820-1913 : a new test of the Redistribution Hypothesis
Aidt, Toke; Winer, Stanley L.; Zhang, Peng - 2020
We study the effect of franchise extension on the fiscal structure of central and local governments in the United Kingdom between 1820 and 1913 to revisit the Redistribution Hypothesis - the prediction that franchise extension causes an increase in state-sponsored redistribution. We adopt a...
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Racial restrictions on voting : evidence from a new pan-Anglophone dataset, 1730-2000
Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2024
A substantial literature studies franchise extension, focusing primarily on class-based – rather than race-based – voting restrictions. This paper constructs and analyzes a novel dataset that codes the presence of race-based restrictions on voting in 131 jurisdictions over 1730-2000...
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Being independent is a great thing : subjective evaluations of self-employment and hierarchy
Frey, Bruno S.; Benz, Matthias - 2003
One can be independent, or subject to decisions made by others. This paper empirically tests whether individuals attach an intrinsic value to the institutional difference between independence and hierarchy. Taking self-employment as an important case of independence, it is shown that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507967
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Show me the amenity: : are higher-paying firms better all around?
Sockin, Jason - 2022
Do firms that pay more offer better amenities, or does the greater pay compensate for worse amenities? Using matched U.S. employee-employer data, this paper estimates the joint distribution of wages, amenities, and job satisfaction across firms. Fifty amenities are captured applying topic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285617
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Job satisfaction and trade union membership in Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Huang, Yue - 2022
Using panel data from 1985 to 2019, we provide the first comprehensive investigation of the relationship between trade union membership and job satisfaction in Germany. Cross-sectional analyses reveal a negative correlation, while fixed effects estimates indicate an insignificant relationship....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332094