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Why do Cross-border Merger/Acquisition Deals become Delayed, or Unsuccessful? – A Cross-Case Analysis in the Dynamic Industries
Reddy, Kotapati Srinivasa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The purpose of this paper is to analyze three litigated cross-border inbound acquisitions that associated with Asian emerging market-India, namely Vodafone-Hutchison and Bharti Airtel-MTN deals in the telecommunications industry, and Vedanta-Cairn India deal with oil and gas exploration...
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IMPACT OF PRIVATIZATION ON R&D ACTIVITIES: THE CASE OF TURKISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY
Ansal, Hacer; Soyak, Alkan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
The debates surrounding privatization have generally focused on comparison of the productivity performances of public and private firms in different countries on the bases of quantitative methods. The main purpose of this paper is to draw attention to a very important repercussion of foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790420
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Inversión y productividad en la industria boliviana de telecomunicaciones
Barja, Gover - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
The document is an analytical report on the impact of structural reforms in the Bolivian telecommunications industry initiated in 1994-95. With the Capitalization Law, the Regulatory System Law and the Telecommunications Law in particular, the telecommunications industry is in transition to full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557268
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Teacher Behavior under Performance Pay Incentives
Jones, Michael D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Over the last decade many districts have implemented performance pay incentives to reward teachers for improving student test scores. Economic theory suggests that these programs could alter teacher work effort, cooperation, and retention. Because teachers can choose to work in a performance pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258656
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Performance Pay and Information: Reducing Child Malnutrition in Urban Slums
Singh, Prakarsh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper provides evidence for the effectiveness of performance pay to government workers and how performance pay interacts with demand-side information. In an experiment covering 145 child day-care centres, I implement three separate treatments. First, I engineer an exogenous change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220685
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Some are Punished and Some are Rewarded: A Study of the Impact of Performance Pay on Job Satisfaction
McCausland, David; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Using an econometric procedure that corrects for both self-selection of individuals into their preferred compensation scheme and wage endogeneity, this study investigates whether significant differences exist in the job satisfaction of individuals receiving performance-related pay (PRP) compared...
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Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study
Cason, Timothy; Masters, William; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This experiment compares the performance of two contest designs: a standard winner-take-all tournament with a single fixed prize, and a novel proportional-payment design in which that same prize is divided among contestants by their share of total achievement. We find that proportional prizes...
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Skill Acquisition, Incentive Contracts and Jobs: Labor Market Adjustment to Trade
Sly, Nicholas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines how global integration influences worker behavior regarding skill acquisition, as well as firm behavior regarding incentive contracts and occupational diversity. The approach integrates several key components of international trade and the wage distribution in developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642661
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Causality of Residential Properties Price Movements in Malaysia
Aziz, Abdul; Faizal, Ahmad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
these research addresses the issue specifically to Malaysia. This paper serves the purpose to fill in the gap whereby … Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), Department of Statistics Malaysia and National Property Information Centre … (NAPIC) of the Valuation and Property Services Department of Malaysia. The time series techniques namely cointegration …
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Political Economy of The Budgetary Process in Malaysia
Hassan, Gulam; Aslam, Mohamed; Tan, Yee Shin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
the budget policy. In the case of Malaysia, as observed, the budget policy is associated with the long or medium term …. This paper has found that in the case of Malaysia the Member of Parliaments do influence the outlining of the annual budget. …
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