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Recent Competition in the Japanese Life Insurance Industry

Souma, Toshiyuki - 2005

This paper examines a change in the level of competition in the Japanese life insurance industry over the last 17 years. We estimate the first order condition for profit-maximizing insurance oligopolies to obtain the degree of non-competition and collusion. Estimation results suggest that: 1)...

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An Analysis of Reinsurance Optimisation in Life

Veprauskaite, Elena; Sherris, Michael - ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research … - 2012

This paper considers optimal reinsurance based on an assessment of the reinsurance arrangements for a large life insurer. The objective is to determine the reinsurance structure, based on actual insurer data, using a modified mean-variance criteria that maximises the retained premiums and...

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Déterminants de la croissance des entreprises: Une analyse empirique du Maroc

Harabi, Najib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

This paper views the economic growth experience in Morocco from the perspective of private firms. Using models of optimal firm size as a theoretical framework, the paper analyzes empirically the factors affecting the growth process of Moroccan private firms. The analysis is based on a field...

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No Appealing Future For High Growth – Low Profitability Firms: Evidence from Turkey’s Top 1000

YILDIRIM, Nuri - In: Iktisat Isletme ve Finans 26 (2011) 307, pp. 31-45

The view that profitability, not growth, is the main driving force behind the firm performance, and unprofitable high … the hypothesis that controlling for leverage, low growth-high profitability firms (profit-focused firms) outperform high … growth-low profitability firms (growth-focused firms) regarding both directions of their transition to an upper (i.e., high …

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Spezialisierung oder Diversifikation – was trägt stärker zum sektoralen Wachstum bei?

Kluge, Jan; Lehmann, Robert - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 19 (2012) 02, pp. 19-25

Sektorale Spezialisierung wird in Deutschland häufig als eine sinnvolle Option zur Stärkung regionalen Wachstums angesehen: Während viele Städte (z. B. Wolfsburg, Frankfurt am Main) bereits durch starke Konzentration gekennzeichnet sind, versuchen auch andere Regionen solche Zentren zu...

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Determinants of Firm Growth: An Empirical Analysis from Morocco

Harabi, Najib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

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Höheres Beschäftigungswachstum durch Venture Capital?

Engel, Dirk - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 223 (2003) 1, pp. 1-22

The paper deals with the analysis of causal effects of venture capital finance for new firms' growth. The crucial criterion for venture capitalists to invest in young firms is the expectation of growth of those investments. Hence, selection biases between the group of venture-backed firms and...

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Age and firm growth. Evidence from three European countries

Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Castellani, Davide; Pieri, Fabio - Departament d'Estructura Econòmica, Facultad de Economía - 2012

This paper provides new insights on the firm age and growth nexus along the entire distribution of (positive and negative) growth rates. Using data from the EFIGE survey, and adopting a quantile regression approach we uncover evidence for a sample of French, Italian and Spanish manufacturing...

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Institutional Barriers and Job Creation in Central and Eastern Europe

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus; Oberhofer, Harald; Vincelette, … - Fachbereich Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2014

Using information from the Amadeus dataset and the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey, we provide an empirical investigation of the industry and firm-specific determinants of the intensive margin (i.e., within existing firms) job creation process in eleven Central and Eastern...

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Age and firm growth. Evidence from three European countries

Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Castellani, Davide; Pieri, Fabio - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2013

This paper provides new insights on the dependence of firm growth on age along the entire distribution of (positive and negative) growth rates, and conditional on survival. Using data from the EFIGE survey, and adopting a quantile regression approach, we uncover evidence for a sample of French,...

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