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Warrant Economics, Call-Put Policy Options and the Fallacies of Economic Theory
Hatgioannides, John - 2012
plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112775
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Beyond GDP and Back : What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?
de New (née Kassenboehmer), Sonja C. - 2011
Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130791
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A Critique and Reframing of Personality in Labour Market Theory : Locus of Control and Labour Market Outcomes
Trzcinski, Eileen - 2011
This article critically examines the theoretical arguments that underlie the literature linking personality traits to economic outcomes and provides empirical evidence indicating that labour market outcomes influence personality outcomes. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118524
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Exports, Imports and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the … leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120841
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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits : Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109440
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Exports and Profitability : First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - 2021
Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … documents that the positive profitability differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant …. Instead, we use a newly developed continuous treatment approach and show that exporting improves the profitability almost over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324872
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Financial Liberalization and Democracy : The Role of Reform Reversals
Campos, Nauro F. - 2009
The relationship between economic and political liberalization has received a great deal of attention lately, yet the possibility of a nonlinear relationship and the role of reversals remain largely neglected. Focusing on democratization and financial reform, this paper offers evidence for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157255
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Creativity over Time and Space
Serafinelli, Michel - 2019
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861308
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Neoliberalization and the Changing Roles of Stakeholders in State-Led Shantytown Redevelopment in Shenyang City, China
Li, Xin - 2016
Neoliberal politics in China have changed the roles of, and the interrelationships between, the state, the market and society in urban restructuring. Since 2008, the central state has initiated the Shantytown Redevelopment Projects (SRPs) to improve the living conditions of low-income residents....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984848
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The Performance of Consumers' Cooperatives in America
Pencavel, John H. - 2021
A series of observations on various types of cooperatives is constructed from intermittent surveys between 1920 and 1950 and, where possible, these are extended to recent years. These observations allow several questions to be taken up: how well have organizations that resemble consumers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315193