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The Valuation Effects of Geographic Diversification : Evidence from U.S. Banks
Goetz, Martin Richard - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of the geographic diversification of bank holding company (BHC) assets across the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117404
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The Effects of International Competiton on Collective Bargaining Outcomes : a Comparison of the United States and Canada
Abowd, John M.; Lemieux, Thomas - 2021
We study the effects of import and export competition on collectively bargained wage settlements and bargaining unit employment from the sixties to the mid-eighties for the United States and Canada. Both value-based and pricebased measures of international competition are considered. We...
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The Impact of Collective Bargaining Legislation on Disputes in the U.S. Public Sector : No Policy May Be the Worst Policy
Currie, Janet; McConnell, Sheena - 2022
This paper estimates the impact of collective bargaining legislation on disputes during labor negotiations in the U.S. public sector. We use a large national sample of U.S. state and local government contracts to compare the incidence and intensity of disputes by similar workers under different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321594
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Multinationals and the Gains from International Diversification
Rowland, Patrick F. - 2002
One possible explanation for home bias is that investors may obtain indirect international diversification benefits by … tests to examine the diversification potential of multinational firms and foreign market indices for investors domiciled in … multinational stocks. However, there is weak evidence that U.S. multinationals provided global diversification benefits in the full …
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Firm Diversification and CEO Compensation : Managerial Ability or Executive Entrenchment?
Rose, Nancy L. - 2000
average 1990 salary gains of $115,000 to $145,000 per year for our sample. Diversification may raise pay because the CEO's job … the diversification premium to be invariant to tenure. Entrenchment models suggest higher premia for more experienced … over an entrenchment explanation. The diversification premium is unaffected by tenure, and increasing diversification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012788556
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Immigration and Product Diversity
Mazzolari, Francesca - 2010
We study the effects of immigration on the diversity of consumption choices. Data from California in the 1990s indicate that immigration is associated with fewer stand-alone retail stores, and a greater number of large and in particular big-box retailers - evidence that likely contradicts a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757528
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The Diversification Discount : Cash Flows vs. Returns
Lamont, Owen A. - 2010
Diversified firms have different values than comparable portfolios of single-segment firms. These value differences must be due to differences in either future cash flows or future returns. Expected security returns on diversified firms vary systematically with relative value. Discount firms...
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Do Nontraded Goods Explain the Home Bias Puzzle?
Pesenti, Paolo A. - 2010
domestic shares under full diversification. When stock-market data are directly used, the predicted coefficient of home bias …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763897
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Mentoring and Diversity
Athey, Susan; Avery, Christopher; Zemsky, Peter B. - 2021
This paper studies the forces which determine how diversity at a firm evolves over time. We consider a dynamic model o a single firm with two levels of employees, the entry level and the upper level. In each period, the firm selects a subset of the entry-level workers for promotion to the upper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235606
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Industrial De-Diversification and its Consequences for Productivity
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2021
diversification declined significantly during the second half of the decade. The mean number of industries in which firms operated … operated. using plant-level Census Bureau data, we show that productivity is inversely related to the degree of diversification …, the lower the productivity of its plants. Hence de-diversification is one of the means by which recent takeovers have …
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