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Merge or fail? : The determinants of mergers and bankruptcies in Switzerland, 1995 - 2000

Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Kaiser, Christian (contributor) - 2005

This paper examines the determinants of mergers and bankruptcies, using firm level data from the Swiss Business Census and the Dun & Bradstreet exit database for Switzerland (1995-2000). Employing duration analysis, we find considerable differences in the determinants of mergers and...

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Forecasting distress in European SME portfolios

Michala, Dimitra; Grammatikos, Theoharry; Ferreira … - 2013

We develop distress prediction models for non-financial small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using a dataset from eight European countries over the period 2000-2009. We examine idiosyncratic and systematic covariates and find that macro conditions and bankruptcy codes add predictive power...

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A year of COVID : the evolution of labour market and financial inequalities through the crisis

Crossley, Thomas F.; Fisher, Paul; Levell, Peter; Low, … - 2021

We use new, high-quality UK panel data to document the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic at an individual level, from April 2020 to March 2021. We focus on where and to what extent pre-existing labour market and financial inequalities have been exacerbated. Our story is more nuanced than...

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Transparency and trust in government : evidence from a survey experiment

Alessandro, Martin; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Torrealday, … - 2019

Does providing information improve citizens' perception about government transparency? Does all information matter the … randomized survey experiment conducted in Argentina. Results show that providing information to citizens matters for shaping … perceptions about transparency, and the content of the information matters for affecting the evaluation people make about the …

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