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The Market for Corporate Control (Including Takeovers)

Bittlingmayer, George - 2001

Mergers, acquisitions and takeovers often imply dramatic changes for employees, competitors, customers and suppliers. Not surprisingly, the market for corporate control has generated controversy and is frequently regulated by law or business custom. Though transfers of control take place in many...

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The Market for Corporate Control (Including Takeovers)

Bittlingmayer, George - 1998

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Import Competition, Domestic Regulation and Firm-Level Productivity Growth in the OECD

Yahmed, Sarra Ben; Dougherty, Sean - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

firms' distance to the efficiency frontier and country differences in product market regulation. Using firm-level data for a … product market regulation measures depending on firms' positions along the global distribution of productivity levels. The … heterogeneous effects of international competition and domestic product market regulation on firm-level productivity growth are …

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Das kalifornische Strommarktdebakel ; Von Liberalisierungsversprechen und Regulierungsversagen

Kumkar, Lars - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002

Im Mittelpunkt dieses Beitrags steht eine Analyse des kalifornischen Strommarktdebakels und der Lehren aus den dortigen Ereignissen. Das Papier geht auf die Entwicklung der Märkte ein und zeigt die Gründe für das Scheitern des kalifornischen Übergangsmodells auf. Die Analyse zeigt, dass es...

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The Inequality of Influence

Hellman, Joel; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

This paper develops a proxy measure of the inequality of influence on the basis of survey evidence from 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the resulting inequality as crony bias in the political...

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Far From Home: Do Foreign Investors Import Higher Standards of Governance in Transition Economies?

Hellman, Joel S.; Jones, Geraint; Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) of firms in transition countries, which unbundles corruption to measure different types of corrupt transactions and provide detailed information on the characteristics and performance of firms, we find that: i)...

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Enterprise Search in the European Union: A Techno-Economic Analysis

White, Martin; Nikolov, Stavri G. - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012

The term ‘enterprise search’ (ES) refers to the information retrieval applications that use a range of different core technologies to search enterprise repositories. It includes the search of the organisation’s external web site, intranets and other electronic text held by the organisation...

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The Revolving Door Indicator: Estimating the Distortionary Power of the Revolving Door

Brezis, Elise S.; Cariolle, Joel - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2014

The “revolving door” phenomenon has become very common in most industrialised countries, and is leading to conflicts of interest as well as economic distortions. The purpose of this paper is to develop an indicator of the distortionary effects of the revolving door – The Revolving Door...

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Rethinking Governance: Empirical Lessons Challenge Orthodoxy

Kaufmann, Daniel - EconWPA - 2003

In this discussion draft, linking research findings with concrete operational challenges, we review key issues in worldwide governance, and present recent empirical evidence. Focusing on defining and unbundling key governance components, such as rule of law, voice and accountability, corruption...

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Measuring conflicts of interest: a revolving door indicator

BREZIS, Elise S.; CARIOLLE, Joël - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le … - 2015

The “revolving door” has been pinpointed as being one major cause of the 2008 financial crisis. This phenomenon, common in most industrialized countries, leads to conflicts of interest that may seriously harm economies. The purpose of this paper is to present an indicator of the...

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