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Il livello di disclosure volontaria del modello di business all'interno del prospetto informativo di quotazione
Bagnoli, Carlo; Redigolo, Giulia - Dipartimento di Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2011
This paper aims to identify the level of business model voluntary disclosure adopted by three manufacturing companies within Initial Public Offering (IPO) prospectus in order to investigate whether any differences in the level of disclosure may depend on differences among their business models...
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Gazelle companies: Growth drivers and an evolution analysis
Amat, Oriol; Perramon, Jordi - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010
Gazelle companies are relevant because they generate much more employment than other companies and deliver high returns to their shareholders. This paper analyzes their behavior in the years of high growth and their evolution in the following years. The main factors that explain their success...
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De l'intégration du développement durable dans la stratégie au pilotage et à l'instrumentation de la performance globale
Moquet, Anne-Catherine - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005
The emergence of the concept of ’sustainable development’leads companies to redefine the notion of performance and to implement practices to manage it.An exploratory research, undertaken in five multinational companies, highlights changes in their management systems and shows that companies...
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Industry concentration and corporate disclosure policy
Ali, Ashiq; Klasa, Sandy; Yeung, Eric - In: Journal of Accounting and Economics 58 (2014) 2, pp. 240-264
This study examines the association between U.S. Census industry concentration measures and the informativeness of corporate disclosure policy. We find that in more concentrated industries firms׳ management earnings forecasts are less frequent and have shorter horizons, their disclosure ratings...
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Die Großen Zwei - Wettbewerb im Kreditkartenmarkt?
Dulleck, Uwe; Friederiszick, Hans W. - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 224 (2004) 4, pp. 445-470
Der Kreditkartenmarkt wird von zwei Firmen bestimmt: VISA und Mastercard/Eurocard. Der Einfluss der "Großen Zwei" hat sowohl in den USA als auch in Europa wettbewerbsrechtliche Bedenken ausgelöst und den bisher kaum wirtschaftswissenschaftlich analysierten Kreditkartenmarkt in den Mittelpunkt...
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Competition, Prices and Quality in the Market for Physician Consultations
Gravelle, Hugh; Scott, Anthony; Sivey, Peter; Yong, Jongsay - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2013
a Vickrey-Salop model of GP price and quality competition and test its predictions using a dataset with individual GP … characteristics of the GPs, their practices and their local areas. We measure the competition to which the GP is exposed by the …
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Measuring bank competition in China: A comparison of new versus conventional approaches applied to loan markets
Xu, Bing; Rixtel, Adrian van; Leuvensteijn, Michiel van - Banco de España - 2014
. Many empirical studies suggest that financial reform promoted bank competition in most mature and emerging economies …. However, some earlier studies that adopted conventional approaches to measure competition concluded that bank competition in … Panzar- Rosse H-statistic fail to measure competition in Chinese loan markets properly due to the system of interest rate …
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Does hospital competition save lives?: evidence from the English NHS patient choice reforms
Cooper, Zack; Gibbons, Stephen; Jones, Simon; McGuire, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
This paper examines whether or not hospital competition in a market with fixed reimbursement prices can prompt …. This paper assesses whether this aim has been achieved and competition led to improvements in quality. For our estimation … improved) for patients living in more competitive markets after the introduction of hospital competition in January 2006. Our …
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Strengthening Competition in Poland
Égert, Balázs; Goujard, Antoine - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
sector regulators in network industries and the powers of the Competition Authority can still be enhanced, as the reform …
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The Internet Economy - Regulatory Challenges and Practices
Koske, Isabell; Bitetti, Rosamaria; Wanner, Isabelle; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
The Internet has become an integral part of the everyday life of households, firms and governments. Its proper functioning over the long run is therefore crucial for economic growth and people’s wellbeing more generally. The success of the Internet depends on its openness and the confidence of...
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