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Green startups are a major driver of eco-innovation and as such a major contributor to climate change mitigation and green growth. However, they often lack sufficient funding from investors. Our study focuses on the factors that determine venture capital investors to invest in green startups. In...
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In recent years, the German banking sector has overcome major challenges such as the global financial crisis and the European debt crisis. This paper analyses a recent development as a particular determinant of the future outlook for the German banking sector. Interest rates are at historically...
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We discuss political economy mechanisms which can explain the resource curse, in which an increase in the size of resource rents causes a decrease in the economy's total value added. We identify a number of channels through which resource rents will alter the incentives of a political leader....
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of workplace performance i.e. productivity, efficiency, quality of service and profitability. It uses a new panel dataset … lower absence is associated with higher efficiency, productivity, quality of the service and profitability of the firm …. Finally, the authors suggest that the link between workers’ absence and this firm's profitability runs through the increased …
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Prior literature documents the usefulness of the DuPont disaggregation for predicting firms future profitability …. However, there is a lack of research examining how earnings quality affects forecasts of profitability. This paper explores … whether different earnings quality factors moderate the accuracy of profitability forecasts. This study contributes to the …
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profitability of German banks and their capacity to lend. With a NSFR-model that is partially calibrated against reported NSFRs, we … minimum standard is unlikely to exhibit adverse consequences for credit supply and bank profitability. …
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