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Do banks diversify loan portfolios? A tentative answer based on individual bank loan portfolios
Kamp, Andreas; Pfingsten, Andreas; Porath, Daniel - 2005
this end we measure diversification for all German banks in the period from 1993 to 2002. As measures we use a broad set of … naive diversification across all industries or, alternatively, the economy's industry structure. With this framework our … in this context innovative group of distance measures. We find that different statistical measures of diversification may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295896
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Diversifikation und Wachstum landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen
Thiele, Holger D.; Weiss, Christoph R. - 2002
vieler Agrarmärkte existieren nur wenige empirische Arbeiten zum Zusammenhang zwischen Diversifikation und dem Erfolg … Diversifikation in verwandte und unverwandte Produktbereiche auf das Wachstum (als ein Erfolgsmaß) von Unternehmen untersucht und … Diversifikation in verwandte Produktbereiche ein höheres Wachstum aufweisen, während die Diversifikation in nicht …
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Urban Growth in Germany – The Impact of Localization and Urbanization Economies
Illy, Annette; Hornych, Christoph; Schwartz, Michael; … - 2009
This study examines the impact of localization and urbanization economies as well as the impact of city size on urban growth in German cities from 2003 to 2007. Although, from a theoretical perspective, agglomeration economies are supposed to have positive impacts on regional growth, prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271397
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Chandlerian firms vs. entrepreneurship
Gambardella, Alfonso; Giarratana, Marco S. - 2004
Chandlerian world entails a lower spread of managerial salaries, greater product diversification, and a greater degree of products …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328455
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Who lives in the c-suite? Organizational structure and the division of labor in top management
Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012
team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments - which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287681
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The propensity to patent with horizontally differentiated products: An empirical investigation
Heger, Diana; Zaby, Alexandra K. - 2009
In this paper we empirically investigate the theoretical results obtained in Zaby (2009). From the theoretical model, which introduces the decision to patent into a setting with horizontally differentiated products we deduce several hypotheses and test these empirically. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301783
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Firm heterogeneity and credit risk diversification
Hanson, Samuel; Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Schuermann, Til - 2005
This paper considers a simple model of credit risk and derives the limit distribution of losses under different assumptions regarding the structure of systematic and idiosyncratic risks and the nature of firm heterogeneity. The theoretical results obtained indicate that if firm-specific risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276169
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A strategy perspective on the performance relevance of the CFO
Venus, Andreas; Engelen, Andreas - 2012
powerful CFOs on performance is strengthened by the degree of unrelated diversification and the firm's tendency toward Defender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637458
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The Origin and Location of Entrants in the Evolution of the U.S. Tire Industry
Buenstorf, Guido; Klepper, Steven - 2004
During its early and formative years, the U.S. tire industry was heavily concentrated around Akron, Ohio. We test the extent to which entrants in Ohio were attracted to the Akron area by agglomeration benefits, contributing to a self-reinforcing process envisioned in many modern theories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327341
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Entry Deterrence in Hospital Procedure Markets: A Simple Model of Learning-by-Doing
Dafny, Leemore - 2003
This paper examines the strategic behavior of hospitals in one of their primary output markets: inpatient surgical procedures. High levels of learning-by-doing in surgical fields may act as a barrier to entry. I investigate whether incumbent hospitals facing prospective entry in a procedure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263344