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Product Market Predatory Threats and the Use of Performance-sensitive Debt
Kjenstad, Einar; Su, Xunhua - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We use a variant of the Hotelling (1929) model to illustrate that, when a firm faces hard payment constraint(s), financially strong rivals may adopt predatory strategies to drive the firm out of the product market and hence to obtain extra profit from enhanced market power later on. Predation is...
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Patterns of technological progress and corporate innovation
Waśniewski, Krzysztof - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The bulk of the global innovative effort takes place in 5 countries: USA, Japan and China as leaders, with France and United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation. The present paper attempts to answer the following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645123
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Knowledge, learning, networks and performance of firms in knowledge-based economies
Schilirò, Daniele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The paper examines the issue of knowledge as a public good, and, therefore, the question of open knowledge. Moreover, it analyses the crucial relationship between knowledge and learning and, more specifically, the relationship between technological knowledge, learning and the environment. Thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018274
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Take the Money and Run: The Business Enterprise in the Age of Money Manager Capitalism
Jo, Tae-Hee; Henry, John F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Most heterodox theories of the business enterprise base themselves on the Veblenian going concern in which managers pursue the long-run survival and growth of the enterprise, whereas absentee owners are occupied with short-run financial interests. Since Veblen’s era, the capitalist social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258335
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A Practical Guide to the Assessment of the Vulnerability of the Non-Financial Private Sector
Mario, Cuevas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The paper proposes a practical guide to the evaluation of the financial and non-financial vulnerability of the private sector (excluding financial entities). It describes step by step the sequence of issues that should be examined to assess the level of vulnerability of the private sector,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787090
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An empirical investigation of the effects of concentration on profitability among US banks
Fiona, Tregenna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper analyses the effects of concentration on profitability in the US banking sector from 1994-2005, using bank-level panel data. A new index of concentration is proposed, which reflects the depth and intensity of concentration. The econometric specification facilitates the simultaneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835748
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L'Evolution des Marchés Boursiers Européens: Enjeux et limites
Ben Slimane, FATEN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper analyzes the recent development of the European stock exchanges by stressing the disparities which exist between them. Within the framework of a progressive financial integration, several of these institutions, in particular of Eastern Europe and Central Europe are likely to be badly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621491
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Economic Valuation of a Wetland in West Bengal, India
Mukherjee, Sacchidananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In the Gangetic flood plain of West Bengal, wetlands are used for multiple purposes, and have significant role in the livelihoods of the local people. Over the years, these Multiple Use Systems (MUSs) are getting converted to single use systems due to economic and social pressure from dominant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835941
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Firm Performance during Global Economic Slowdown: A View from India
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This study has analyzed the relative growth performance of Indian firms under the current economic slowdown and explored factors helping certain Indian companies to do relatively better even in this crisis period. It has been observed that the overall growth and stability of the global economy...
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Macroeconomic Change, and Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions: The Indian Experience, 1991-2010
Reddy, Kotapati Srinivasa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Asian emerging market-India for the period 1991 through 2010. I also compare the market in India among the BRIC economies … and financial reforms in India. Further, I highlight the internationalization process of Indian firms by supporting the … data on parent corporations and foreign affiliates. I eventually draw conclusions from India’s share as a percentage of the …
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