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This study empirically investigates the potential differential media advertising valuation effects for a sample of UK firms over the period 1998-2003. Contrary to the findings of previous research, this study could not find evidence that the valuation relevance of advertising varies...
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Events such as plant creation, closure, and relocation have a considerable effect on employment. This paper looks specifically at plant transfers from urban to periurban or rural areas. First we propose an analytic framework derived from New Economic Geography models. The paper then presents a...
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This study examines the strategic interaction between food companies and activists using a game theoretic model of sequential bargaining in the absence of complete information. In a rather confined set of circumstances, findings indicate it is always in the best interest of the food company to...
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structure variables, cyclical fluctuations in profitability are interpreted as evidence for changes in firm behaviour. The …, profitability in competitive industries in Germany as well as in all US-food industries are found to be more stable over the … econometric model does not adequately explain industry differences in profitability in the Netherlands. …
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A semi-parametric approach is used to estimate firm propensity to exit. The unobserved individual productivity of a firm is first estimated using the Ackerberg et al. (2006) approach and then introduced as a determinant of firm exit in conjunction with other variables that may serve as barriers...
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structure variables, cyclical fluctuations in profitability are interpreted as evidence for changes in firm behaviour. The …, profitability in competitive industries in Germany as well as in all US food industries are found to be more stable over the … econometric model does not adequately explain industry differences in profitability in the Netherlands. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800863
A semi-parametric approach is used to estimate firm propensity to exit. The unobserved individual productivity of a firm is first estimated using the Ackerberg et al. (2006) approach and then introduced as a determinant of firm exit in conjunction with other variables that may serve as barriers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098780
To address a gap in the literature that deals with official quality labels, the article proposes a methodology for analysis and a conceptual framework that are subsequently applied to two such quality labels from the south west region of France : ‘Volaille Fermières des Landes’ and...
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