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The role of technology in M&As: a firm-level comparison of cross-border and domestic deals

Frey, Rainer; Hussinger, Katrin - 2006

role of technology in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) at the firm level. Based on a newly created data set that combines … structural model to investigate technology-related motivations behind merger formation. Distinguishing between cross-border and … domestic M&As. The relevance of technology for crossborder M&As further illustrates the international character of technology …

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Zur Methodologie der technologischen Forschung in der Betriebswirtschaftslehre

Kirsch, Werner; Seidl, David; Aaken, Dominik van - 2007

In diesem Beitrag zeigen wir, dass theoretische und technologische Aussagensysteme zwei eigenständige Forschungszweige darstellen und damit die Notwendigkeit erwächst, eine eigene Methodologie technologischer Aussagensysteme zu entwerfen. Wir stellen erste Ansatzpunkte vor, wie eine solche...

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Bridging the gap in transatlantic data protection

Maldonado, Eric - 2020

As technology continues to innovate at lightning speeds and technology becomes more central to everyday life, personal … important precedent in the world of data protection law. Building upon the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC), the GDPR has …

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Firm responses to high-speed internet

Steimer, Henrike - 2020

Does access to the broadband internet stimulate firm growth? In this paper, I analyze within-firm growth of established firms caused by the access to faster internet using geocoded social-security data. I identify firm responses to the access to the first generation of broadband internet and...

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Verlässlichkeit als Lösung? Zum Einfluss interorganisationaler Kollaboration auf den Implementierungsprozess von Technologien zur Reliabilitätssicherung

Eichelbaum, Nils - 2023

Unsicherheit im Umgang mit neuer Technologie. In Zusammenarbeit mit spezialisierten Partnern versuchen Organisationen, Fehler und …

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Industrialization, Returns, Inequality

Albers, Thilo N. H.; Kersting, Felix; Stieglitz, Timo - 2023

How does revolutionary technological change impact wealth inequality? We turn to the mother of all technological shocks–the Industrial Revolution–and analyze its role for wealth concentration both empirically and theoretically. Based on a novel dataset on wealth shares at the level of...

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FDI versus cross-border financial services: The globalisation of German banks

Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - 2004

The choice between foreign direct investment (FDI) and exports has been a recurrent theme in the literature on international trade, yet few studies have analysed this choice at the level of the individual firm. This paper uses a new dataset to study the FDI-versus-exports decision for banks. We...

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Consumption Smoothing Across States and Time: International Insurance vs. Foreign Loans

von Furstenberg, George M. - 2004

When countries, and macroeconomic models, open up to international capital markets, the welfare gains available through completion of financial markets for contingencies potentially are much greater than those available from access to noncontingent international borrowing. Intercasual insurance,...

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International diversification at home and abroad

Cai, Fang; Warnock, Francis E. - 2005

We analyze foreigners' and domestic institutional investors' positions in U.S. equities. Controlling for many factors, we uncover a common preference for large firms and firms that are diversified internationally. The domestic preference for internationally diversified firms implies that...

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Multinational enterprises international trade, and productivity growth: Firm-level evidence from the United States

Keller, Wolfgang; Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2005

We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment …

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