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The interest in low-carbon hydrogen technologies is growing fast in politics and the economy. The ramp-up of a hydrogen market is a critical phase, which requires the engagement and coordination of many heterogeneous stakeholders. A better understanding of who these stakeholders are and what...
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Improving the energy efficiency of residential buildings is of paramount importance to reduce CO2 emissions and hence … existing building stock is needed, as regulations for new buildings are already quite tight in terms of energy efficiency, and …
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Improving the energy efficiency of residential buildings is of paramount importance to reduce CO2 emissions and hence … existing building stock is needed, as regulations for new buildings are already quite tight in terms of energy efficiency, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295445
The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non …-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1 …-step truncated linear regression model with bootstrapped DEA efficiency scores as dependent variable. The results show that public …
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The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non …-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1 …-step truncated linear regression model with bootstrapped DEA efficiency scores as dependent variable. The results show that public …
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period between 2005 and 2010. Since ownership structures may have important consequences according to recent work, we … distress. We conclude that conditional on their liquidity status, these funds use cash as a device to provide for the ownership …
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Several papers find a positive association between a bank's equity stake in a borrowing firm and lending to that firm. While such a positive cross-sectional correlation may be due to equity stakes benefiting lending, it may also be driven by endogeneity. To distinguish the two, we study a German...
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This chapter documents the evolution of ownership and control of firms around the world over a hundred year period from … stock markets and contrasts these with the persistent patterns of ownership that are observed in many countries around the … world. In particular, it documents the growth in dispersion in ownership that took place in many countries from the early …
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independence) as well as to special characteristics of family businesses as a whole (i. e. performance and organizational changes). …
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In this paper we analyze the conditions under which a foreign direct investment (FDI) involves a net capital flow across countries. Frequently, foreign direct investment is financed in the host country without an international capital movement. We develop a model in which the optimal choice of...
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