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We investigate implications for the cost of capital in a model with agency conflicts between inside and outside shareholders, where the severity of agency costs depends on a parameter representing investor protection. Using firm-level data for Italy and Germany we find significant differences in...
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This study surveys the academic and professional literature examining the privatisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), with a focus on empirical studies. Privatisation has been instrumental in reducing state ownership in many countries and had a transforming effect on global stock markets,...
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Az adóztatás hatásának vizsgálata mind makroökonómiai és gazdaságpolitikai szempontból fontos feladat. Az egyes adónemek aránya országonként nagyon eltérő, és időben természetesen adott országon belül is változik. Más a jövedelmi adók, más az indirekt adók hatása. Nem...
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Setting out from the neoclassical theory of growth and prices the author investigates the combined effect of physical … modern theory of price, wages and the profit mechanism is built. The principial conclusions are drawn from an economic …
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A kockázatitőke-ágazat rendkívül erőteljesen fejlődött a kilencvenes években. Ez jól mérhető az ágazatba került tőke volumenének sohasem látott mértékű emelkedésén, a befektetések globalizálódásán. E folyamat a magyar gazdaság számára is kedvezőnek bizonyult,...
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A tanulmány alapjául szolgáló empirikus felvétel abból indult ki, hogy az átalakuló országokban a beruházási tevékenység változása, a vállalati beruházások növekedése jól jelzi a tömeges stratégiai alkalmazkodás kezdetét. A szerző négy ország (Lengyelország,...
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As the EU expands, the focus is on the Western Balkans region1, which is rich with opportunity and potential. It is experiencing significant improvements in terms of reforms, economic growth and foreign direct investment (FDI). Developing economies such as those in the Western Balkans are...
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Using firm-level survey data for the West German manufacturing sector, this paper revisits the technology-driven business cycle hypothesis for the case of aggregate investment. We construct a survey-based measure of technology shocks to gauge their contribution to short-run investment...
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Are firms' expectations systematically too optimistic or too pessimistic? Does it matter? We use micro data from the West German manufacturing subset of the IFO Business Climate Survey to infer quarterly production changes at the firm level and combine them with production expectations over a...
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Micro- and macro-level evidence indicates that fluctuations in idiosyncratic uncertainty have a large effect on investment; the impact of uncertainty on investment occurs primarily through changes in credit spreads; and innovations in credit spreads have a strong effect on investment,...
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