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Should employment authorities worry about mergers and acquisitions?
Margolis, David N. - 2006
. Second, it examines which individuals from which firms remain with the newly created entity after the takeover. Using a … active in the post-takeover period, with employees of the acquired firm being less likely to remain with the new entity in … the short term after takeover than those of the acquiring firm and with the differences between the two types of firms …
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Public support for innovation, intangible investment and productivity growth in the UK market sector
Haskel, Jonathan; Wallis, Gavin - 2010
Pressure on public finances has increased scrutiny of public support for innovation. We examine two particular issues. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy to be extended to other research activities, such as software. Second, argument still rages...
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Evaluating the causal effects of foreign acquisition on domestic skilled and unskilled wages
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003
This paper investigates the effects of the takeover of a domestic establishment by foreign owners on the domestic …
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Is Privatization Working in Ukraine? New Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Data, 1989-2013
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015
This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large size and length of the time series in the data permit us to track the privatization process and to...
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Calling the Greek Referendum on the Nose with Google Trends
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
In a bold and risky political move the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras called for a referendum on June 27 2015 quitting ongoing negotiations with Greece's creditors in Brussels. The referendum framed as a yes or no question asked the Greek voters to decide whether or not they approve or...
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Predicting the Irish "Gay Marriage" Referendum
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
On February 20 2015 Irish Premier Enda Kenny confirmed that a "yes-no" referendum on same sex marriage would be held on May 22 of the same year. A yes vote would legalise same sex marriage in Ireland. As the Irish premier put it, the vote was about "tolerance, respect and sensitivity". The...
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Why So Few Women on Boards of Directors? Empirical Evidence from Danish Companies 1997-2007
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Smith, Nina - 2013
This paper analyzes the determinants of women on the boards of directors based on a panel sample of all Danish companies in the private sector with more than 50 employees. The share of women on the boards of directors was 12 percent in 2007 and has only slowly increased during the period...
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Female-Led Firms: Performance and Risk Attitudes
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Smith, Nina - 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)....
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Performance Effects of Appointing Other Firms' Executive Directors to Corporate Boards: An Analysis of UK Firms
Muravyev, Alexander; Talavera, Oleksandr; Weir, Charlie - 2014
This paper studies the effect on company performance of appointing non-executive directors that are also executive directors in other firms. The analysis is based on a new panel dataset of UK companies over 2002-2008. Our findings suggest a positive relationship between the presence of these...
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Boards of Directors in Russian Publicly Traded Companies in 1998-2014: Structure, Dynamics and Performance Effects
Muravyev, Alexander - 2016
This paper provides new evidence on the structure, dynamics and performance effects of corporate boards in publicly traded companies in Russia. It takes advantage of a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded in the RTS/MICEX/MOEX over...
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