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Characteristics of German Real Estate Return Distributions: Empirical Evidence from Germany and Comparison to the U.S. and U.K.

Maurer, Raimond; Reiner, Frank; Sebastian, Steffen - 2004

In contrast to the United States and the United Kingdom, little empirical work exists about the distributional characteristics of appraisalbased real estate returns outside these countries. The purpose of this study is to fill this gap by focusing on Germany. In line with other studies, this...

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Market Value of Insurance Contracts with Profit Sharing

Bouwknegt, Pieter; Pelsser, Antoon - 2001

The valuation of insurance contracts using a market value approach, also known as the fair value approach has recently attracted a lot of interest. Seconding this trend...

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Transfer pricing for coordination and profit determination :an analysis of alternative schemes

Martini, Jan Thomas - Universität <Bielefeld> / Lehrstuhl für Controlling … - 2005

This paper examines coordination and profit allocation in a profit-center organization using a single transfer price …. Administered transfer prices refer to past transactions and therefore maximize firm-wide profit net of divisional compensations …, taxes, and minority profit shares only for given decentralized decisons... …

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Strategic Outsourcing, Profit Sharing and Equilibrium Unemployment

Koskela, Erkki; König, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

We analyze the following questions associated with outsourcing and profit sharing under imperfect labour markets. How … does strategic outsourcing influence wage formation, profit sharing and employee effort when firms commit to optimal profit … sharing before wage formation or decide for profit sharing after wage formation? What is the relationship between outsourcing …

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Fair Distribution of Profit in Supply Chains

Jene, Susanne; Zelewski, Stephan - Institut für Produktion und Industrielles … - 2011

Most scientific publications on the subject of supply chain management only analyzewhich structures, processes and actions can contribute to value creation, oftendisregarding the distribution of profits collectively achieved in a network ofautonomous actors. Distributive justice, or fair...

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Use IT or Lose IT?The Impact of Computers on Earnings

Dolton, Peter; Makepeace, Gerry; Robinson, Helen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The extent to which the impact of computer skills depends on how computers are used isinvestigated using British data from an establishment survey, cohort studies and theEuropean E-Living survey...

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Measuring Competition

Griffith, Rachel; Boone, Jan; Harrison, Rupert - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2005

We investigate the empirical usefulness of a new measure of the degree of competition in a market, proposed by Boone (2000). This measure is based on the reduction in profits that firms experience as a result of cost inefficiencies. We compare this with measurescommonly used by policy makers and...

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Commitment in Symmetric Contests

Possajennikov, Alex - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2008

The paper proves that in two-player logit form symmetric contestswith concave success function, commitment to a particular strategydoes not increase a player's payo, while in contests with more thantwo players it does. The paper also provides a contest-like game inwhich commitment does not...

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Profit Raising Entry

Mukherjee, Arijit; Laixun Zhao - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2008

Common wisdom suggests that entry reduces profits of the incumbentfirms. On the contrary, we show that if the incumbents differ in marginal costs and theentrants behave like Stackelberg followers, entry may benefit the incumbents who arerelatively cost efficient while it always hurts the cost...

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BANKING COMPETITION AND CAPITAL ACCUMULATION: THE IMPORTANCE OF HOW PROFITS ARE RETURNED

Roberts, Mark A. - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2005

to households exogenously as fiscal transfers or endogenously as untaxed dividend payments to the (old) holders of bank …

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