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The Effect of Board Structure on Firm Performance - New Evidence from Product Market Conditions
Hu, Xiaoyuan - 2019
We study the effect of corporate board structure on firm performance under different product market conditions. Using customer-supplier links to identify exogenous downstream demand shocks, we find that board independence has a more significant effect on firm performance when the firm-specific...
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Employment effects of acquisitions : evidence from acquired European firms
Oberhofer, Harald - 2010
This paper examines the employment effects of acquisitions for acquired European firms taking non-random selection of acquisition targets explicitly into account. Following the empirical firm growth literature and theories put forward in the mergers and acquisition (M&A) literature we control...
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Acquisitions, markups, efficiency, and product quality : evidence from India
Stiebale, Joel; Vencappa, Dev - 2016
This paper uses a rich panel data set of Indian manufacturing firms to analyze the effects of domestic and international acquisitions on various outcomes at target firm and product level. We apply recent methodological advances in the estimation of production functions together with information...
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The economic effects of private equity buyouts
Davis, Steven J.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Handley, Kyle; … - 2021
We examine thousands of U.S. private equity (PE) buyouts from 1980 to 2013, a period that saw huge swings in credit market tightness and GDP growth. Our results show striking, systematic differences in the real-side effects of PE buyouts, depending on buyout type and external conditions....
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The impact of mergers and acquisitions on performance of firms : a pre- and post-TRIPS analysis of India's pharmaceutical industry
Chakraborty, Indrani; Kattuman, Paul A. - In: Asia and the global economy : AGE 3 (2023) 2, pp. 1-17
This study analyses the impact of mergers and acquisitions on performance of Indian pharmaceutical firms following the implementation of TRIPS in 1995. In order to identify adequately the effect of mergers, we investigate the impact on firm performance of the merged vis-a-vis the non-merged...
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Firm-level consequences of export demand shocks : Swedish and Finnish exporters
El-Sahli, Zouheir; Maczulskij, Terhi; Nilsson-Hakkala, … - 2023
This paper analyzes how firms with different financial strength levels respond to demand shocks in their export markets. We utilize unique administrative datasets of Swedish and Finnish firms matched with national customs data from 1999 to 2014, which allows us to analyze the effects of several...
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Corporate governance as the driver of economic growth in Sub-Saharan African Countries
Matashu, Martha; Musvoto, Wedzerai S. - In: International journal of business and economic sciences … 15 (2022) 1, pp. 16-26
Purpose: Corporate governance in essence is designed to lead to economic growth. Nevertheless, despite placing great emphasis on promoting corporate governance practices over the years, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have so far achieved insignificant or no economic growth. This, however,...
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Efficient, profitable and safe banking: an oxymoron? Evidence from a panel VAR approach
Koetter, Michael; Porath, Daniel - 2007
Efficiency is considered a key factor when evaluating a bank's performance. Moreover, efficiency enhancement is an … explicit policy objective in the Single Market Directive of the European Commission. But efficiency improvements may come at … of performance in response to efficiency improvements remain often unclear on both theoretical and empirical grounds. We …
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Exporting and Plant-Level Efficiency Gains : It's in the Measure
Garcia Marin, Alvaro - 2013
efficiency increases within exporting firms over time. While there is strong evidence for the former, the latter has received … little support in the data. Previous research has documented minuscule or no efficiency gains within exporting plants. This … efficiency measure that is not affected by prices. We find that marginal costs drop substantially when plants begin to export …
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Swiss Cantonal Banks : A DEA Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
Bandyopadhyay, Trishit - 2020
This paper applies a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to study the efficiency and productivity changes in the Swiss … cantonal bank sector in the period 2006-2014. The efficiency analysis is conducted by applying the production input … is related to a frontier-shift (technological innovation) rather than to improvements in the technical efficiency. The …
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