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Impact of macro-economic environment on diversification-performance relationship: A cross country study of India and Japan

Purkayastha, Saptarshi - 2013

relationships between product diversification, business group affiliation and firm performance in two major economies in Asia. India … Rumelt (1974) implicitly assumed that the diversification-performance relationship is consistent, regardless of the macro … macroeconomic environments. Further, studies linking diversification with firm performance have been carried out mainly in …

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Surveying business uncertainty

Altig, David; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2019

We develop a new monthly panel survey of business executives and a new question design that elicits subjective probability distributions over own-firm outcomes at a one-year lookahead horizon. Our Survey of Business Uncertainty (SBU) began in 2014 and now covers 1,500 firms drawn from all 50...

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Pandemic-era uncertainty on Main Street and Wall Street

Meyer, Brent; Mihaylov, Emil; Davis, Steven J.; Parker, … - 2021

We draw on the monthly Survey of Business Uncertainty (SBU) to make three observations about pandemic-era uncertainty in the U.S. economy. First, equity market traders and executives of nonfinancial firms share similar assessments about uncertainty at one-year lookahead horizons. That is, the...

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What types of diversity benefit workers? Empirical evidence on the effects of co-worker dissimilarity on the performance of employees

Kurtulus, Fidan Ana - 2011

This paper explores the consequences of grouping workers into diverse divisions on the performance of employees using a dataset containing the detailed personnel records of a large U.S. firm from 1989-1994. In particular, I examine the effects of demographic dissimilarity among co-workers,...

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Intangible capital, markups and profits

Sandström, Maria - 2020

model to show how intangible capital, characterized by fixed costs and uncertainty, is related to markups and profits at the … high markups do not imply any economic profits in the industry if they only serve to cover the total fixed costs of …

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The impact of firm performance on the business transfer mode

Kay, Rosemarie; Pahnke, André; Schlepphorst, Susanne - 2018

This paper analyzes the impact of family firms' past and future economic viability on the incumbents' decision on the business transfer mode. Using the German IAB Establishment Panel and estimating logistic regression models we show that the decision on the business transfer mode rather depends...

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Methodology and microeconomics in the early work of Hyman P. Minsky

Toporowski, Jan - 2006

This paper reviews the recently published doctoral thesis of Hyman P. Minsky, summarizing its main contributions to methodology and microeconomics. These were aspects of economics with which Minsky is not usually associated, but which lie at the foundation of his later work. They include...

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Cognitive abilities and household financial decision making

Agarwal, Sumit; Mazumder, Bhash - 2010

We analyze the effects of cognitive abilities on two examples of consumer financial decisions where suboptimal behavior is well defined. The first example refers to consumers who transfer the entire balance from an existing credit card account to a new account, but use the new card for...

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Environmental policy under ambiguity

Vinokur, Leon - 2009

The aim of this paper is to extend existing literature on carbon allowance allocation, investigating the impact of uncertainty and ambiguity, due to the lack of future Environmental policy, on the total production in the market. Specifically, we show that an increase in uncertainty has no effect...

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ACE model of endogenous interactions

Vriend, Nicolaas J. - 2005

Various approaches used in Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE) to model endogenously determined interactions between agents are discussed. This concerns models in which agents not only (learn how to) play some (market or other) game, but also (learn to) decide with whom to do that (or not).

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