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Corporate Governance and Pension Fund Performance
Kowalewski, Oskar - In: Contemporary Economics 6 (2012) 1, pp. 14-44
This study provides new evidence on the impact of governance on the performance of privately defined contribution pension plans. Using a hand collected data set on governance factors, the study shows that the external and internal governance mechanisms in pension plans are weak. One explanation...
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Alternative Finance And Sustainable Development
Motylska - Kuźma, Anna - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 2 (2018) 1, pp. 175-187
Objective: The aim of this article is to evaluate alternative finance for the implementation of the basic assumptions and goals of sustainable development.Methodology: Using the comparative analysis the most frequent mentioned forms of alternative finance have been assessed. The analysis took...
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The Effect of Restrictive Bank Lending on Innovation: Evidence from a Financial Crisis
Kipar, Stefan - 2011
Using unique micro-data on German firms, this paper estimates the effect of restrictive bank lending on innovation. In … restrictive bank lending increases a firm’s probability of discontinuing innovation projects by 21.6 percentage points. …
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What drives market structure? On the relation between firm demographic processes, firms? innovative behaviour and market structure
Fauchart, Emmanuelle; Keilbach, Max - 2002
behaviour and distinguish between dierent innovation regimes. On the basis of a set of simulations of this model we derive a …
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The impact of the financial crisis on investments in innovative firms
Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2015
This paper investigates the impact of the financial crisis on investment decisions in innovative versus non-innovative firms. Firms are defined as being innovative if they have introduced a new product to the market. The empirical test is based on data for the years before and after the recent...
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Microeconometric Evidence of Financing Frictions and Innovative Activity
Tiwari, Amaresh K.; Mohnen, Pierre; Palm, Franz; van … - 2014
Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics …
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Financial constraints for R&D and innovation: New evidence from a survey experiment
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Giebel, Marek - 2021
at the intensive margin, i.e. our results do not suggest that non-innovative companies are deterred from innovation …
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Digital finance, green finance and social finance: Is there a link?
Ozili, Peterson K. - In: Financial Internet Quarterly 17 (2021) 1, pp. 1-7
Identifying the intersection between digital finance, green finance and social finance is important for promoting sustainable financial, social and environmental development. This paper suggests a link between digital finance, green finance and social finance. Using a simple conceptual model, I...
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Kreditvergabe und Innovationsaktivität in der Finanzkrise
Kipar, Stefan - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 80 (2011) 3, pp. 111-130
restrictive bank lending on firm innovation. …
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No derivative shareholder suits in Europe: A model of percentage limits and collusion
Grechenig, Kristoffel; Sekyra, Michael - 2010
this phenomenon on the basis of percentage limits which require share-holders to hold a minimum amount of shares in order … to bring a lawsuit. We show that, under this legal regime, managers will collude with large shareholders by means of … settlements or bribes that impose a negative externality on small shareholders. Contrary to conventional agency models, we find …
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