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Mergers and Birth Outcomes : Evidence from Maternity Ward Closures
Avdic, Daniel - 2018
Evidence suggests that hospital mergers can reduce costs but less is known about their effects on patient outcomes. We study how a wave of mergers that led to the shutdown of one third of all Swedish maternity wards affected the health of mothers who gave birth and their newborns. Applying a...
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Minimum Global Tax : Winners and Losers in the Race for Mergers and Acquisitions
Amendolagine, Vito; Bruno, Randolph Luca; Cipollina, Maria - 2023
This study aims to quantify the impact of the global minimum corporate tax rate a pillar of the OECD's reform of international taxation on cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving large multinational enterprises (MNEs). First, the influence of differences in capital taxation on...
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Common Ownership of Competing Firms : Evidence from Australia
Leigh, Andrew; Triggs, Adam - 2022
We provide the first estimates of the extent of common ownership of competing firms in Australia. Combining data on market shares and substantial shareholdings, we calculate the impact of common ownership on effective market concentration. Among firms where we can identify at least one owner, 31...
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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...
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The Gender Composition of Corporate Boards and Firm Performance : Evidence from Russia
Garanina, Tatiana - 2019
theory. The effects appear to be stronger in bad economic times or for firms experiencing economic difficulties. Overall, the …
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Family Ownership, Workplace Closure and the Recession
Bryson, Alex - 2016
Using nationally representative Norwegian data we show family-owned workplaces are less likely to close than observationally similar non-family-owned workplaces. But this changed during the Crisis when the family businesses' closure hazard soared. This hike in 2009 was not related to performance...
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National Champion versus Foreign Takeover
Suedekum, Jens - 2021
We analyze an oligopolistic market where a domestic and a foreign firm are engaged in a takeover battle for a domestic … competitor. Any merger or acquisition (M&A) must be approved by a welfare maximizing domestic competition agency which may or may … of government. With an unbiased competition agency we find that the foreign takeover is more likely to occur the higher …
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Superstar Economists : Coauthorship Networks and Research Output
Hsieh, Chih-Sheng - 2018
We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors but also to researchers indirectly linked to them....
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Firm Size Distribution and Employment Fluctuations : Theory and Evidence
Görg, Holger - 2016
relationship between industry-level employment and output. Our empirical results align with the predictions of the theory and …
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Endogenous Hours and the Wealth of Entrepreneurs
Wellschmied, Felix - 2019
US entrepreneurs typically work long hours in their firms and these hours form a large part of the firms' labor input. This paper studies the role of endogenous owner hours in shaping the wealth distribution among entrepreneurs. We introduce owners' endogenous labor supply into a model of...
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