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This essay provides a survey of the evolution and the developments of bookkeeping, internal cost accounting and … present times. It is shown that the developments in bookkeeping and cost accounting have regularly been a reaction to … accounting, which chronologically enumerate different techniques and practices, this text additionally delivers an outline of …
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In this paper we analyze a dynamic agency problem where contracting parties do not know the agent's future productivity at the beginning of the relationship. We consider a two-period model where both the agent and the principal observe the agent's second-period productivity at the end of the...
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This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual...
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We first analyse legal provisions relating to corporate transparency in Germany. We show that despite the new … markets are dominated by few large firms accounting for most of the market's capitalisation and trading volume. Moreover, the … concentration of control is very high. First, 85% of all officially listed AGs have a dominant shareholder (controlling more than 25 …
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-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1 …
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Seit 1998 sind wettbewerblich organisierte Energiemärkte Wirklichkeit geworden. Vor allem die Initiativen der Europäischen Union haben dazu geführt, daß die alten Monopolstrukturen aufgelöst worden sind und sich die Anbieter auf Strom- und in Zukunft auch auf Gasmärkten der Konkurrenz...
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about the usefulness of international accounting data and about the adoption effects of a change to such accounting …
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No concept of corporate management has spread as quickly in global business practice as the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton. This discussion paper examines its origins, theoretical foundation, practical distribution and key points of criticism in the literature a...
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MIND is a hybrid model incorporating several energy related sectors in an endogenous growth model of the world economy. This model structure allows a better understanding of the linkages between the energy sectors and the macro-economic environment. We perform a sensitivity analysis and...
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We present a regression-based generalization of the calendar time portfolio approach which allowsfor the inclusion of continuous and multivariate investor or firm characteristics in the analysis. Ourmethod is simple to apply and it ensures that the statistical results are heteroscedasticity...
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