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An Analysis of the Internal Barriers Hindering Croatian Export Companies
Miloloža, Helena - 2016
Export represents the ultimate strategic necessity that ensures a positive impact on long-term sustainable development … and the acquisition of international experience. Export strategy is created by the top management and largely depends on …, this paper summarizes initial export barriers (so-called internal barriers), which arise within Croatian companies. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011920311
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Knowledge based firms from Central and East European countries: A comparative overview of case studies
Woodward, Richard; Yörük, Deniz Eylem; Radosevic, Slavo - 2011
, they are struggling with the challenge of entering export markets with products and services that can achieve global, or at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430867
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Exploring the role of uncertainty for corporate investment decisions in Germany
von Kalckreuth, Ulf - 2000
The impact of uncertainty on firms' investment outlays is subject to an ongoing debate. Theory identifies several channels. Irreversibility, financing constraints and risk aversion make a negative relationship between uncertainty and investment likely. On the other hand, the ability of firms to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295693
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Investment and Uncertainty: A Theory-Based Empirical Approach
Carlsson, Mikael - 2004
This paper provides empirical evidence on the dynamic effects of uncertainty on firm-level capital accumulation. A novelty in this paper is that the firm-level uncertainty indicator is motivated and derived from a theoretical model, the neoclassical investment model with time to build. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321549
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Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy
Riedl, Arno; van Winden, Frans - 2003
This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a relatively small 'home' country and a large 'foreign' country. It compares the economic performance of two alternative tax systems as a means to finance unemployment benefits: a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324982
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The Impact of Uncertainty on Investment: A Meta-Analysis
Koetse, Mark J.; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Florax, Raymond … - 2006
In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since the outcomes of primary studies are largely incomparable with respect to the magnitude of the effect, our analysis focuses on the direction and statistical significance of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325340
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Horizontal mergers and uncertainty
Le Pape, Nicolas; Zhao, Kai - 2013
Some path-breaking work on mergers takes efficiency gains for granted, or assumes that firms have perfect knowledge when taking merger decisions. In practice, firms and competition authorities cannot know exact future efficiency gains, prior to merger consummation. This paper analyzes horizontal...
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Horizontal mergers and uncertainty
Le Pape, Nicolas; Zhao, Kai - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 8 (2014) 2014-23, pp. 1-31
This paper analyses the profitability of horizontal mergers in a Stackelberg model and their impact on welfare when there is uncertainty about the marginal costs of the newly merged firms. The authors consider that the merging firms decide their production strategy knowing the actual value of...
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Asymmetric Price Adjustment in the Small
Chen, Haipeng (Allan); Levy, Daniel; Ray, Sourav; … - In: Journal of Monetary Economics 55 (2008) 4, pp. 728-737
Analyses of a large retail scanner price data set reveal a new and surprising regularity – small price increases occur more frequently than small price decreases for price changes of up to 10¢. That is, we find asymmetric price adjustment “in the small.” Furthermore, it turns out that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140646
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Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy
Riedl, Arno; van Winden, Frans - 2004
This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an 'international' economy with a relatively small 'home' country and a large 'foreign' country. It compares the economic performance of two alternative tax systems as a means to finance unemployment benefits: a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262084