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Radon risk assessment in a low-energy consumption school building: A dosimetric approach for effective risk management

Curado, António; Silva, João P.; Lopes, Sérgio I. - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 897-902

A high-occupancy elementary school building recently retrofitted, with low energy consumption and no central … influence of variables such as the occupancy, the location of the monitored rooms and ventilation actions that were undertaken … in the monitored room, but also on the number of occupants, period of occupancy, ventilation rate and on the location of …

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Tax and Occupancy of Business Properties: Theory and Evidence from UK Business Rates

Lockwood, Ben; Simmler, Martin; Tam, Eddy H.F. - 2023

We study the impact of commercial property taxation on vacancy rates and rents in the UK, using a new data-set, and exploiting exogenous variations in property tax rates from reliefs in the UK system: small business rate relief (SBRR), retail relief and empty property relief. We estimate that...

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Foreign and domestic takeovers in Germany: Cherry-picking and lemon-grabbing

Weche-Gelübcke, John P. - 2012

This study focuses on ex ante performance of domestic and foreign takeover targets in Germany, one of the most important FDI inflow destinations worldwide. Using a new database from German official statistics, unconditional comparisons as well as binary response model estimations of takeover...

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Temporary Agency Work and Firm Performance: Evidence from German Establishment-Level Panel Data

Beckmann, Michael; Kuhn, Dieter - 2009

This paper empirically examines the impact of temporary agency work on firm performance using panel data from German establishments. Thereby, special attention is devoted to the question, whether there are performance differences between firms using temporary agency workers (TAWs) as a buffer...

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Flexibility vs. screening: The performance effects of temporary agency work strategies

Beckmann, Michael; Kuhn, Dieter - 2012

This paper empirically examines the impact of temporary agency work strategies on firm performance using panel data from German establishments. Thereby, special attention is devoted to the question, whether there are performance differences be- tween establishments using temporary agency workers...

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Interlocking Boards and Firm Performance: Evidence from a New Panel Database

Non, Mariëlle C.; Franses, Philip Hans - 2007

An interlock between two firms occurs if the firms share one or more directors in their boards of directors. We explore the effect of interlocks on firm performance for 101 large Dutch firms using a large and new panel database. We use five different performance measures, and for each...

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A Triptych Inquiry: Rethinking Sustainability, Innovation, and Financial Performance

Busch, Timo; Stinchfield, Bryan T.; Wood, Matthew S. - 2011

Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...

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The Impact of Workplace Conditions on Firm Performance

Buhai, Sebastian; Cottini, Elena; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels - 2008

This paper estimates the impact of work environment health and safety practice on firm performance, and examines which firm-characteristic factors are associated with good work conditions. We use Danish longitudinal register matched employer-employee data, merged with firm business accounts and...

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The role of data and knowledge in firms' service and product innovation

Koski, Heli - 2012

The importance of data and different sources of knowledge in the development of new services and products, and further in the creation of new markets, has dramatically increased during the past few decades. This empirical study uses data from 531 Finnish firms to explore the determinants of...

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Productivity, profitability and financial fragility: Empirical evidence from Italian business firms

Bottazzi, Giulio; Secchi, Angelo; Tamagni, Federico - 2007

In this work we investigate two crucial dimensions of firms' structure and dynamics, that is profitability and productivity performance. The empirical distributions and the associated persistence over time are explored through a set of parametric and non parametric exercises performed on an...

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