We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the … characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms' leverage, whereas firm characteristics and human capital of both founders … detected by merely estimating single-equation models for R&D intensity and debt financing. …

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. …

-known bargaining solutions. We apply the Nash, the Egalitarian and the Kalai-Smorodinsky bargaining solutions in the small firm …/methodological viewpoint, we extend a somewhat flexible search-matching economy to alternative bargaining solutions. In particular, we prove … search-matching economies. Second, our results show that even though the traditional results of bargaining theory apply in …

-valuation parent would be endowed with greater bargaining power. The implications of these results are then interpreted in the context …

The paper examines the relationship between leverage and growth in a group of emerging central and eastern European … moderate leverage could boost growth while very high leverage could lower it by increasing the likelihood of financial distress … various firm, industry and financial market characteristics. We also endogenously determine a threshold level of leverage …

We study bilateral bargaining problems with interested third parties, the stakeholders that enjoy benefits upon a … enters bargaining directly. Our results lend support to the tendency towards decentralisation of pay bargaining in the public …

This paper deals with the effects that intermediation has on strategic behaviour in negotiations. To this end, we use … thereby condition the outcome of negotiations. We concentrate on some very recent contributions which have addressed gaps in …

In this paper we derive an explicit model of negotiations between spouses when utility is (partially) transferable only …