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The reasons of decreasing trend of female labour force participation in Turkey: The role of conservatism
Göksel, Idil - 2012
force participation in Turkey: Conservatism and the role of traditional and social norms. An original proxy for conservatism … is created by using a unique data set about perceptions. Four indices that might influence conservatism are formed …: Tradition, social norms, men's decision power, and conservatism. The results are in accordance with the previous literature in …
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A note on the time series measure of conservatism
Brauer, Sebastian; Westermann, Frank - 2010
this note we propose an alternative, but closely related measure of conservatism - regressing the changes in earnings on …
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Testing for adverse selection into private medical insurance
Olivella, Pau; Vera-Hernandez, Marcos - 2006
We develop a test for adverse selection and use it to examine private health insurance markets. In contrast to earlier papers that consider a purely private system or a system in which private insurance supplements a public system, we focus our attention on a system where privately funded health...
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Versicherungsbetrug als ökonomisches Problem: Eine vertragstheoretische Analyse
Schiller, Jörg - 2004
Vertragstheorie - ausgewählte Ansatzpunkte zur Betrugsbekämpfung und insbesondere das Problem der Sanktionierung von ertappten …
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Testing canonical tournament theory: On the impact of risk, social preferences and utility structure
Sheremeta, Roman M.; Wu, Steven Y. - 2012
We use experiments to test comparative statics predictions of canonical tournament theory. Both the roles of principal and agent are populated by human subjects, allowing us to test predictions for both incentive responses and optimal tournament design. Consistent with theory, we observed an...
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A contract perspective on the international finance facility
Lin, Tun; Mavrotas, George - 2004
The present paper is a first attempt to develop a theoretical model using a short-term vis-à-vis long-term contract framework within which donor countries’ endorsement or rejection decision towards the recently proposed International Finance Facility (IFF) is rationalized. The current foreign...
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Venture capital versus bank financing in innovative German firms
Schäfer, Dorothea; Talavera, Oleksandr; Zimmermann, Volker - 2007
The paper investigates young firms' choice of capital source. Our theoretical model hypothesizes a positive (negative) relation between riskiness of the project (price of venture capital) and receiving informed equity. We test our predictions by employing a unique data set collected by KfW...
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Is Cash (the only) King? – Eine kritische Analyse der Aussagekraft von Kapitalflussrechnungen nach IAS 7
Pütter, Jonas - In: Junior Management Science (JUMS) 8 (2023) 1, pp. 219-236
Beeinflussbarkeit durch Bilanzpolitik zugesprochen und somit eine besondere Eignung als Maß des Unternehmenserfolgs. Im Rahmen dieser …
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Sozialpolitik im internationalen Vergleich (Schweden, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Großbritannien)
Rosenbrock, Rolf - In: Die Zukunft des Wohlfahrtsstaates: Referate und …, (pp. 20-36). 1986
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[Sammelrezension] Wissenschaftliche Progressivität und politischer Konservatismus im Werk Otto Hintzes: Gerhard Oestreich (Hrsg.): Otto Hintze : gesammelte Abhandlungen. 3 Bde. Göt...
Kocka, Jürgen - In: Neue politische Literatur: Berichte über das … 18 (1973) 1, pp. 1-7
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