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Productivity in electricity retail after market liberalisation : analysing the effects of ownership and firm's governance structure
Stiel, Caroline; Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria - 2015
This paper, which is one of the first to estimate productivity in retail electricity for a European country after liberalisation, analyses the effect of ownership and governance structure by using a unique dataset of German electricity retailers from 2003 to 2012. An innovative service...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392296
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Corporate governance and dividend policy in Poland
Kowalewski, Oskar (contributor); Stetsyuk, Ivan (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003577331
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Persistence and determinants of firm profit in emerging markets
Stephan, Andreas (contributor); Tsapin, Andriy (contributor) - 2008
, dynamic panel GMM estimation, and quantile regression techniques to a panel of approximately 3,000 Ukrainian companies. The …. -- Profit ; persistence ; convergence ; Markov chain analysis ; Ukraine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793077
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Outsourcing, foreign ownership and productivity : evidence from UK establishment level data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003
This paper presents an empirical analysis of "outsourcing" using establishment level data for UK manufacturing industries. We analyse an establishment's decision to outsource and the subsequent effects of outsourcing on the establishment's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438842
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Convergence in institutions and market outcomes : crosscountry and time-series evidence from the BEEPS surveys in transition economies
Mitra, Pradeep K. (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed … cover thousands of firms from virtually all transition countries over a long time period (1996-99 through 2002-05), as well … convergence of transition countries with developed market economies in a number of dimensions. The pattern of growth at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793072
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Does the tenure of private equity investment improve the performance of European firms?
Badunenko, Oleg; Baum, Christopher F.; Schäfer, Dorothea - 2010
The paper investigates whether the presence and tenure of Private Equity (PE) investment in European companies improves … performance of a firm that has PE backing is lower than that of a firm without PE backing in the first year of PE investment. Such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003949498
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Riding the transition roller-coaster : flexibility and the inter-industry wage structure in Russia
Geishecker, Ingo; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2002
transition from a plan-based economy to a more "market oriented" structure. Using two Russian household panel data sets, the RLMS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436169
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The determinants of debt and (private-) equity financing in young innovative SMEs : evidence from Germany
Schäfer, Dorothea (contributor); Werwatz, Axel (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001972760
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Firm financing and the relative demand for labor and capital
ElFayoumi, Khalid - 2020
During both the 2008 and the COVID crises, aggregate employment in Europe and the US fell despite continuing growth in the aggregate capital stock. Using more than one million firm-year observations of small and medium European firms between 2003 and 2018, this paper introduces new stylized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012308878
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Outsourcing and firm-level performance
Görzig, Bernd; Stephan, Andreas - 2002 - This version: 15 October 2002
Using firm-level panel data from the German cost structure survey over the period 1992 to 2000, our empirical analysis shows that firms that increased material inputs relative to internal labor costs performed better in terms of gross operating surplus than other firms. However, firms that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437001