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An assessment of the relationship between public real estate markets and stock markets at the local, regional, and global levels
Liow, Kim Hiang; Schindler, Felix - 2011
The primary contribution of this study is to assess whether public real estate markets and stock markets are linked at the local, regional, and global levels, and to assess the evolution of their dynamic relationship and gradual integration during the last two decades. For individual pairs of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009298929
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Employment effects of innovations over the business cycle : firm-level evidence from European countries
Dachs, Bernhard; Hud, Martin; Koehler, Christian; … - 2016
A growing literature investigates how firms' innovation input reacts to changes in the business cycle. However, so far … there is no evidence whether there is cyclicality in the effects of innovation on firm performance as well. In this paper …. (2014), our empirical analysis reveals four important findings: First, the net effect of product innovation on employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563081
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Innovation, employment growth, and foreign ownership of firms : a European perspective
Dachs, Bernhard; Peters, Bettina - 2013
This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732768
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Women on the board and executive duration : evidence for European listed firms
Buchwald, Achim; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2015
The participation of women in top-level corporate boards (or rather the lack of it) is subject to intense public debate. Several countries are considering legally binding quotas to increase the share of women on boards. Indeed, research on board diversity suggests positive effects of gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491772
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Housing and health
Angel, Stefan - 2014
Deprived housing conditions have long been recognized as a source of poor health. Nevertheless, there is scant empirical evidence of a causal relationship between housing and health. The literature identifies two different pathways by which housing deprivation affects health, namely,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416204
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Unemployment and labor reallocation in Europe
Hogrefe, Jan; Sachs, Andreas - 2014
We ask whether sectoral shocks and the subsequent labor reallocation are responsible for unemployment within selected European economies. Our measure of sectoral labor reallocation is adjusted for aggregate influences and the remaining variation is linked to unemployment in country specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424822
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Speeding up the internet : regulation and investment in European fiber optic infrastructure
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Cambini, Carlo; Grajek, Michał - 2017
In this paper we study how the coexistence of access regulations for legacy (copper)and fiber networks shapes the incentives to invest in network infrastructure. To this end, we develop a theoretical model explaining investment incentives by incumbent telecom operators and heterogeneous entrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011687904
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The fall and rise of market power in Europe
Weche, John P.; Wambach, Achim - 2018
This paper presents an analysis of the recent developments of average market power in Europe by using a broad firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782951
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Racing with or against the machine? : evidence from Europe
Gregory, Terry; Salomons, Anna; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2016
-replacing technological change (RRTC) for Europe as a whole and at the level of 238 European regions. We develop and estimate a task framework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514667
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Balancing competition and cooperation : evidence from transatlantic airline markets
Bilotkach, Volodymyr; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2015
In the last two decades, airline alliances were not only successful in extending the size of their networks, but also received approvals by public authorities to intensify their cooperation through to merger-like revenue-sharing joint ventures (JVs). We empirically investigate the impact of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316436