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The impact of maximum markup regulation on prices
Genakos, Christos; Koutroumpis, Pantelis; Pagliero, Mario - 2014
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Intermittent versus dispatchable power sources : an integrated competitive assessment
Glenk, Gunther; Reichelstein, Stefan - 2021
The cost and revenue earnings potential of alternative power generation sources has shifted considerably in recent years. Here we introduce the concept of Levelized Profit Margins (LPM) to capture the changing unit economics of both intermittent and dispatchable generation technologies. We apply...
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Cost-efficient pathways to decarbonizing Portland cement production
Glenk, Gunther; Kelnhofer, Anton; Meier, Rebecca; … - 2023
Accounting for nearly 8% of global annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the cement industry is considered difficult to decarbonize. While a sizeable number of abatement levers for Portland cement production are technologically ready for deployment, many are still viewed as prohibitively...
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The effects of natural disasters and weather variations on international trade : a review of the empirical literature
Osberghaus, Daniel - 2019
This review summarizes the empirical literature on the effects of natural disasters and weather variations on international trade flows. A first result is that the body of literature is actually not as small as previously suggested. In total, I summarize 19 studies of 18 independent research...
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Subsidising innovation outside or within firms' existing knowledge base : which is best for radical innovation?
Perez-Alaniz, Mauricio; Lenihan, Helena; Doran, Justin; … - 2024
Public financial support for firm-level Research and Innovation (R&I) can generate important socio-economic returns. This is especially true if firms use this support to develop radical innovation, defined as new-to-market goods and services. However, radical innovation is risky, and prone to...
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Automatability of occupations, workers' labor-market expectations, and willingness to train
Lergetporer, Philipp; Wedel, Katharina; Werner, Katharina - 2023
We study how beliefs about the automatability of workers' occupation affect labor-market expectations and willingness to participate in further training. In our representative online survey, respondents on average underestimate the automation risk of their occupation, especially those in...
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The impact of natural disasters on banks' impairment flow : evidence from Germany
Shala, Iliriana; Schumacher, Benno - 2022
some extent by retail mortgage loans. While results suggest that the profitability of banks is impacted by additional …
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Improving profitability forecasts with information on earnings quality
Demmer, Matthias - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520353
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Location factors and ecosystem embedding of sustainability-engaged blockchain companies in the US : a web-based analysis
Kinne, Jan; Dehghan, Robert; Schmidt, Sebastian; Lenz, David - 2024
While many digital technologies provide opportunities for creating business models with an impact on sustainability … energy demand. In our study, we present a novel approach to identify sustainability-focused blockchain companies and relate … that blockchain companies with an intensified focus on sustainability have, at least quantitatively, a more intensive …
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When trade drives markup divergence : an application to auto markets
Norris Keiller, Agnes; Obermeier, Tim; Teichgraeber, Andreas - 2024
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