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Minimum global tax : winners and losers in the race for mergers and acquisitions
Amendolagine, Vito; Bruno, Randolph; Cipollina, Maria; … - 2023
international taxation - on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving large multinational enterprises (MNEs). First, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279899
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Task difficulty, performance measure characteristics, and the trade-off between insurance and well-allocated effort
Schnedler, Wendelin (contributor) - 2006
When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a "good" allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness (sensitivity, precision, signal-noise ratio) of the performance measure and its similarity (congruity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323166
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Hidden action, identification, and organization design
Schnedler, Wendelin - 2010
Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this restriction? This paper shows that any restriction of implementability is caused by an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009303451
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Mystery shopping as a strategic management practice in multi-site firms
Block, Sidney T.; Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias; … - 2022
Anonymous and unannounced site inspections known as "Mystery Shopping" (MS) are common in multi-site service firms, but little is known about the strategic importance of this practice. We conceptualize MS as a monitoring tool firms use to implement the optimal allocation of site resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412781
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International terrorism, political instability and the escalation effect
Campos, Nauro; Gassebner, Martin - 2009
What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9 … (the escalation effect) stressing domestic political instability as the main reason for international terrorism … avenue for future research than the available alternatives. -- Terrorism ; international terrorism ; political instability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824948
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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration
Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich nations' well-being; Great Britain and the US enter further down; France and Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380028
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Global mobility and the threat of pandemics: evidence from three centuries
Clemens, Michael A.; Ginn, Thomas - 2020
Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits … respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced exposure to pre-pandemic international mobility causes slightly … 2009. We find that in all cases, even a draconian 50 percent reduction in pre-pandemic international mobility is associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389000
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Foreign acquisition, plant survival, and employment growth
Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger - 2009
non-MNEs, and purely domestic firms before foreign takeover. The results, controlling for possible endogeneity of the … horizontal or vertical. We also find robust positive employment growth effects only for exporters, and only if the takeover is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860906
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National champion versus foreign takeover
Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2007
We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic … of government. With an unbiased competition agency we find that the foreign takeover is more likely to occur the higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597575
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Foreign acquisitions, domestic multinationals, and R&D
Bandick, Roger; Görg, Holger; Karpaty, Patrik - 2010
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the causal effect of foreign acquisition on R&D intensity in targeted domestic firms. We are able to distinguish domestic multinationals and nonmultinationals, which allows us to investigate the fear that the change in ownership of domestic to foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153574