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How foreign-born workers foster exports
Marchal, Léa; Nedoncelle, Clément - 2017
foreign markets. We illustrate that foreign workers foster exports at the extensive and the intensive margins. This effect can … find that foreign-born workers, and especially skilled individuals, foster exports at both margins. On average, a firm … employing foreign-born workers exports 30% more in value than a control firm. We find evidence that this increase is spread over …
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Overseas links as export conduits
Hanley, Aoife - 2009
This paper investigates the relationship between exports and overseas links using data from the UK Community Innovation …
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Export impact on dividend policy for big Colombian exporting firms, 2006-2014
Merchan Alvarez, Federico Alberto - 2023
mitigate the agency cost generated by exogeneous exports variation via higher free cash flow and cash flow volatility …
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The effect of grant receipt on start-up size: Evidence from plant level data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Strobl, Eric - 2010
In this paper we use plant level data on the start-up size of new plant entries and detailed information on the grants received by such plants in order to investigate whether grant receipt encourages plants to start-up with more employment than without support. The data relate to manufacturing...
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Bread and bullets
Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...
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What drives patentees to bypass TTOs? Evidence from a large PRO
Goel, Rajeev K.; Göktepe-Hultén, Devrim - 2017
This paper provides insights into the behavior of academic patentees who choose to bypass in-house Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs). TTOs have gained favor in recent years as academic institutions have tried to increase commercialization of their inventions. Using a large sample of researchers...
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Siemens: a multinational's strategy to investment in the Central-East European transformation countries
Sander, Birgit - 1995
The Central East European economies are competing for international investment capital, especially for FDI in order to support transformation. The paper explores how the Siemens AG, one of the world's largest MNCs, allocates investments towards and within Central East Europe and how they fit...
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Complementarities in Corporate Governance - A Survey of the Literature with Special Emphasis on Japan
Heinrich, Ralph P. - 1999
The present paper uses a comparison of Japan and the US to argue that the debate about corporate governance reform is best framed in terms of systems of complementary instruments and institutions. It argues that the Japanese and US systems of corporate governance differ along many dimensions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274194
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The new institutional economics of antitrust and regulation
Bickenbach, Frank; Kumkar, Lars; Soltwedel, Rüdiger - 1999
Hybrid governance structures between markets and hierarchies in many industries, e.g., in energy and telecommunications, challenge antitrust and regulation policy. The paper focuses on the theoretical and methodological basis provided by the New Institutional Economics (NIE) for analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283001
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A Model of Corporate Governance As a System
Heinrich, Ralph P. - 1999
This paper provides a rationale for the coexistence of different systems of corporate governance based on the multitude of agency problems typically to be governed within a given firm. Because there are complementarity and substitution relationships between governance instruments, specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260521