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Recent Competition in the Japanese Life Insurance Industry
Souma, Toshiyuki - 2005
. We estimate the first order condition for profit-maximizing insurance oligopolies to obtain the degree of non …
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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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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 hypothesis that controlling for leverage, low growth-high profitability firms (profit-focused firms) outperform high …The view that profitability, not growth, is the main driving force behind the firm performance, and unprofitable high … growth-low profitability firms (growth-focused firms) regarding both directions of their transition to an upper (i.e., high …
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Industry Earning Differentials in Ireland: 1987-1994.
O'Donnell, N. - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 1999
This paper considers industry earnings differentials in Ireland between 1987 and 1994. Earnings equations are estimated using data from 2 cross-section surveys. Industry differentials are calculated and their stability over time and the importance of industry in determining earnings assessed....
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Inflation as restructuring. A theoretical and empirical account of the U.S. experience
Nitzan, Jonathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...
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Large Production and Market Games.
Flam, S.D.; Owen, G. - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2001
Accomodated here is a measure space of economic agents, each regarded as a profit maximizing producer, each endowed …
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A study on influencers of total sales revenue of generic pharmaceutical companies in Indonesia
Simanjuntak, Destrina Grace; Tjandrawinata, Raymond R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
profitability (t-1), and market share of new products to firms’ amount of sales revenue in pharmaceutical generic companies in …) method. The result shows that firms’ one-year lagged of total new product (t-1), one-year lagged profitability (t-1), and …
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External Effects as a Microeconomic Determinant of Innovation Efficiency
Grupp, Hariolf - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 4 (1997) 2, pp. 173-188
Recent studies point to the significant effects unintended technological spillover has on profits, market value and patent output of enterprises. The public good character relates not only to technology, but also to (public) science. The paper introduces a new data source on German businesses...
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Naehe zum Kerngeschaeft als Kriterium fuer Portfolioentscheidungen
Petzke, Amadeus - Rainer Hampp Verlag
Das Portfoliomanagement gehoert zu den zentralen Aufgaben des Strategischen Managements von Unternehmen. Zur Unterstuetzung von Portfolioentscheidungen wurden zahlreiche Konzepte entwickelt, die sich allgemein in strategisch-marktorientierte und wertorientierte Ansaetze unterscheiden lassen....
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Aktuelle Trends : Erkenntnisse aus ifo-Umfragen
Hahn, Dietger; Oppenländer, Karl H.; Nerb, Gernot - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 52 (1999) 26, pp. 11-17
1998 befragte das ifo-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung über 1000 Industrieunternehmen des verarbeitenden Gewerbes zu den Entwicklungstendenzen der strategischen Unternehmensplanung und Unternehmensführung in Deutschland. Der vorliegende Beitrag stützt sich massgeblich auf das Buch...
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