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Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad...

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Determinants and impact of private sector investment in Malawi: evidence from the 2006 investment climate survey

Record, Richard; Davies, Simon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Over much of the last two decades, the economy of Malawi has been characterized by economic turbulence and uncertainty that has done serious damage to the private sector. Rapid liberalization exposed an unprepared private sector to potentially damaging forces. This paper draws upon the most...

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ELECTRONIC COMMERCE IN DER SCHWEIZ: Ergebnisse aus Einzelfallstudien und statistischen Erhebungen

Harabi, Najib; Schoch, Rolf; Hespeler, Frank - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

Ländern der Europäischen Union (Dänemark, Deutschland, Frankreich, Finnland, Irland, Italien, Niederlande, Spanien, Schweden … zählt (Platz 3 nach Irland und Grossbritannien). 5. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) wird dagegen in nur 35 % (1999) bzw … die Wirtschaftszweige Industrie bzw. Handel/Logistik zeigen sich deutlich risikoaverser als die anderen Branchen. 18 …

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The Effect of External Incentives on Profits and Firm-Provided Incentives Strategy

Azar, Ofer H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

The article examines the firm's choice of incentives when workers face additional incentives (“external incentives”) to those provided by the firm, such as building reputation that improves the workers' prospects with other employers, or satisfaction from working well. Surprisingly, the firm...

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The role of foreign firms in domestic exporting

Sun, Sizhong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of foreign firms on exports of domestic exporting firms. We show that domestic firms respond to an increase in the presence of foreign firms by increasing their exports, despite the increase in foreign presence can drive up the production cost and make domestic...

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Imitation in location choice

Berg, Nathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Under the assumption of perfect competition, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that abandoned properties and long undeveloped neighborhoods remain that way because they are unprofitable. In contrast, this paper introduces a model in which firms systematically overlook neighborhoods with...

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How exporters respond to antidumping investigations?

Lu, Yi; Tao, Zhigang; Zhang, Yan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Using China Customs data that cover monthly transactions of all Chinese exporters, we investigate how Chinese exporters respond to U.S. antidumping investigations during the 2000-2006 period. Our difference-in-differences analysis uncovers a number of findings: (1) the substantial...

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Agglomeration and Markup

Lu, Yi; Tao, Zhigang; Yu, Linhui - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Agglomeration brings costs (e.g., intensified local competition) as well as benefits (e.g., knowledge spillover). It is important to examine the net impact of agglomeration to understand the geographic distribution of economic activities. In this study, we use firm markup (defined as the ratio...

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Binding Constraints: Does Firm Size Matter?

Vargas, Jose P Mauricio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Using Bolivian firm level data from the World Bank 2010 Enterprise Survey, we attempt to find evidence to support the idea that distinct formal firms (according to their size) have a distinct likelihood of facing obstacles. We propose that a potential endogeneity between firms' constraints and...

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Mergers and acquisitions transactions strategies in diffusion - type financial systems in highly volatile global capital markets with nonlinearities

Ledenyov, Dimitri O.; Ledenyov, Viktor O. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The M&A transactions represent a wide range of unique business optimization opportunities in the corporate transformation deals, which are usually characterized by the high level of total risk. The M&A transactions can be successfully implemented by taking to an account the size of investments,...

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