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Giannini, Valentina - 2014

Climate change mitigation can be achieved, according to many, by means of Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the Tropics (REDD). Within the climate change policy debate we thus find discussions on how to reduce GHG emissions by designing appropriate REDD programmes...

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Business Groups as Hierarchies of Firms : Determinants of Vertical Integration and Performance

Altomonte, Carlo - 2013

integration, as well as an entropy-like metric able to summarize the hierarchical complexity of a group and its trade-off between … institutional quality, a negative correlation exists between vertical integration and organizational complexity in defining the … complexity and productivity which dominates the already known correlation between vertical integration and productivity. Results …

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Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect the Performance of Firms?

Comincioli, Nicola; Poddi, Laura; Vergalli, Sergio - 2014

Over the last two decades in OECD countries an increasing number of firms are obtaining certification as Socially Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). Several studies (including Preston and O’Bannon, 1997; Waddock and Graves, 1997; McWilliams and Sieger, 2001; Ullman,...

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Innovation and Institutional Ownership

Aghion, Philippe - 2014

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite-weighted patents). To explore the mechanism through which this link arises, we build a model that nests the lazy-manager hypothesis with career-concerns, where institutional...

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Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect The Performance of Firms?

Vergalli, Sergio - 2009

Over the last two decades in OECD countries increasingly more firms are certifying as Socially Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). This kind of certification is assigned by private companies that guarantee that a certain firm's behaviour is environmentally and...

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Firms' International Status and Heterogeneity in Performance : Evidence from Italy

Casaburi, Lorenzo; Gattai, Valeria; Minerva, G. Alfredo - 2011

This paper revisits the empirical evidence about the link between firms' performance and their international status, based on a large sample of Italian enterprises. To this purpose, we merged two waves of the Capitalia survey (1998-2000, and 2001-2003) retrieving firm level data for roughly...

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