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The Post-Entry Performance of Cohorts of Export Starters in German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2010
This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are small on average compared to incumbent exporters....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138253
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Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117183
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Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments
Fackler, Daniel - 2012
Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096121
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Offshoring and Firm Performance : Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?
Wagner, Joachim - 2009
what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153306
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Survival of Spinoffs and Other Startups : First Evidence for the Private Sector in Germany, 1976-2008
Fackler, Daniel - 2013
find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077300
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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
manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109440
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Productivity Premia for German Manufacturing Firms Exporting to the Euro-Area and Beyond : First Evidence from Robust Fixed Effects Estimations
Verardi, Vincenzo - 2010
This paper makes three contributions. (1) It summarizes in tabular form a recent literature made of 36 micro-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports estimates of the productivity premium of German firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141754
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Female-Led Firms : Performance and Risk Attitudes
Parrotta, Pierpaolo - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075784
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Firm Performance and Managerial Turnover : The Case of Ukraine
Muravyev, Alexander - 2009
The paper studies whether and how CEO turnover in Ukrainian firms is related to their performance. Based on a novel dataset covering Ukrainian joint stock companies in 2002-2006, the paper finds statistically significant negative association between the past performance of firms measured by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156404
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The Gender Composition of Corporate Boards and Firm Performance : Evidence from Russia
Garanina, Tatiana - 2019
This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the national stock market between 1998 and 2014. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868825