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Financing micro firms in Europe : an empirical analysis
Masiak, Christian; Block, Jörn; Moritz, Alexandra; … - 2017
The vast majority of firms in Europe are micro firms. Still, we know little about their financing patterns. Our paper aims to close this gap. Based on a large European firm-level data set, we find that micro firms differ in their financing patterns from small and medium-sized companies. Our...
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Wage Determination : Privatised, New Private and State Owned Companies. Empirical Evidence from Panel Data
Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Bishop, Kate - 2003
This paper examines the determinants of wage pressure in large companies, including ownership characteristics and the impact of regional labour markets. By using a panel of 329 Polish largest firms during the period 1997-2001, we find evidence of rent sharing activities, however there is also...
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The brigade-managed enterprise
Aage, Hans - 1989
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The impact of organisational privatization on the performance of publicly owned enterprises
Cayón-Costa, Magda; Vergés-Jaime, Joaquim - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 3, pp. 1-29
practices, criteria, and governance structure; i.e. corporatization, commerciallization or "organizational privatization … improve as a consequence of such organizational privatization strategic reforms, though improvements may entail a given time …-delay. -- state owned enterprise ; organizational status reforms ; organizational privatization ; efficiency measurement …
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State enterprise : business or politics?
Coombes, David L. - 1971 - 1st publ.
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Governance of Payment Systems : A Theoretical Framework and Cross-Country Comparison
Summers, Bruce J. - 2014
We develop and test the effectiveness of a theoretical governance model for general purpose payment systems (GPPS), systems that are used by individuals, businesses and merchants, and state, local and federal government entities to make and receive payments. We test for effective governance...
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The welfare impact of a privatisation : the British Telecom case-history
Florio, Massimo - 2001
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Arrangements with the NHS for providing healthcare services : do they improve financial performance of private for-profit hospitals in Spain?
Ruiz-Mallorquí, María Victoria; Aguiar-Díaz, Inmaculada - In: Health economics review 11 (2021) 1/9, pp. 1-12
performance (return on assets) using commissioning as main explanatory variable and other variables as control (variables …
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Ownership and Control in the Entrepreneurial Firm : An International History of Private Limited Companies
Guinnane, Timothy W.; Harris, Ron; Lamoreaux, Naomi R.; … - 2007
We use the history of private limited liability companies (PLLCs) to challenge two pervasive assumptions in the literature: (1) Anglo-American legal institutions were better for economic development than continental Europe's civil-law institutions; and (2) the corporation was the superior form...
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Dividend taxation and the ownership structure of private firms
Hillmann, Lisa - In: The journal of corporate finance : contracting, … 79 (2023), pp. 1-28
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