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Considering the shareholder perspective: value-based management systems and stock market performance
Rapp, Marc Steffen; Schellong, Daniel A.; Schmidt, … - 2010
We empirically study the use of value-based management systems in listed German firms and examine implications for firms' stock market performance. Using a novel, hand-collected data set covering 1,083 firm years from 2002 to 2008, we find that value-based management systems become increasingly...
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An analysis of the Swiss vote on the use of genetically modified crops
Schläpfer, Felix - 2007
In November 2005, 55.7 percent of 2 million Swiss voters approved a 5-year moratorium (ban) on the commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) plants within Switzerland. The present study examines how individual voting decisions were determined by (i) socioeconomic characteristics, (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315609
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On the relevance of psychological motives, values, and norms for socially responsible investments: An econometric analysis
Gutsche, Gunnar; Köbrich-León, Anja; Ziegler, Andreas - 2016
Based on unique data from a representative computer-based survey among financial decision makers in Germany, this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011616161
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On the relevance of ideological identification and environmental values for beliefs and attitudes toward climate change: An empirical cross country analysis
Ziegler, Andreas - 2015
policy, namely the USA, Germany (as largest country in the European Union), and China. Our econometric analysis focuses on … major factor for beliefs and attitudes toward climate change. In Germany, citizens with a conservative, but not social or … policy in Germany and the USA and especially in general climate change beliefs and beliefs in anthropogenic climate change in …
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The Oracle/PeopleSoft case: unilateral effects, simulation models and econometrics in contemporary merger control
Budzinski, Oliver; Christiansen, Arndt - 2007
An increasingly important part of contemporary merger control both in the US and the EU is unilateral effects analysis, particularly with regard to oligopolistic mergers. In practice, this requires econometric analyses of past market data and, above all, the construction of simulation models in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265740
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Long-Term Contracts and Asset Specificity Revisited: An Empirical Analysis of Producer-Importer Relations in the Natural Gas Industry
Neumann, Anne; von Hirschhausen, Christian R. - 2006
In this paper, we analyze structural changes in long-term contracts in the international trade of natural gas. Using a unique data set of 262 long-term contracts between natural gas producers and importers, we estimate the impact of different institutional, structural and technical variables on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274271
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Intergenerational Successionon Family Farms: Evidence from Survey Data
Glauben, Thomas; Tietje, Hendrik; Weiss, Christoph R. - 2002
This study examines family farms and characteristics affecting farm succession. Based on a farm survey, three aspects of succession are analysed in the paper: the probability of family succession; the likelihood of having a successor designated; and the timing of succession. Large and specialised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297124
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The Oracle/PeopleSoft case: unilateral effects, simulation models and econometrics in contemporary merger control
Budzinski, Oliver; Christiansen, Arndt - 2007
An increasingly important part of contemporary merger control both in the US and the EU is unilateral effects analysis, particularly with regard to oligopolistic mergers. In practice, this requires econometric analyses of past market data and, above all, the construction of simulation models in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300228
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Timing and determinants of local residential broadband adoption: evidence from Ireland
Lyons, Sean - 2010
This paper tests whether households that are offered broadband service for the first time tend to delay in taking it up. Using cross-sectional data on broadband take-up and socioeconomic characteristics of small areas in Ireland, linked to GIS data on ADSL availability, I find that local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304266
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Cost of production estimates for wheat, milk and pigs in selected EU member states
Kleinhanß, Werner; Offermann, Frank; Butault, Jean-Pierre - 2011
This study summarizes cost estimates based on the EU Farm Accountancy Data Network using the General Cost of Production Model, developed, applied and tested within the FACEPA project. Results are provided for wheat, pigs and milk for the main producer countries of the EU for the period 1999 to...
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