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Economists have long been interested in analyzing entries and exits of establishments. In many countries administrative datasets provide an excellent source for detailed analysis on a fine and disaggregate level. However, administrative datasets are not without problems: restructuring and...
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Foundational to the discipline of management is the idea that organizational decisions are a function of expected outcomes; hence, the customary empirical approach to employ multivariate techniques that regress performance outcome variables on discrete measures of organizational choices (e.g.,...
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We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries. We find substantial heterogeneity in...
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In this article we test the relationship between per capita income differential and exchange rate differential between two different economic background countries. Recent researches have been done on the testing of international Fisher effect, Interest rate, GDP growth rate and purchasing power...
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While the traditional banking theory and portfolio theory favour diversification strategy for better performance the corporate finance theory supports concentration strategy. The empirical studies also provide mixed evidence on the relationship between sectoral loan diversification and the...
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We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries.We find substantial heterogeneity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046258
We study international market entry in the context of the Internet, and ask: On what basis do U.S. Internet firms choose the markets that they enter? Our baseline hypothesis is that international market entry decisions are based on balancing perceived risks and returns inherent in a foreign...
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Objectives: The research focuses on the needs of the secondary schools’ principals in Greece, the necessity of counseling while the principals fulfill their role as managers of their educational institutions and the suggestion of a framework regarding counseling intervention in education....
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addressing intrinsic drivers, specifically management commitment to ethics, in conjunction with extrinsic (trade-related) drivers … and domestic firms. More importantly, management commitment to ethics interacts positively with trade-related pressures to … moderate the role of trade pressures or management commitment to ethics. Implications for research and practice are discussed …
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The present study aims to examine the relationship between dividend policy and earnings management by explicitly considering the role of the agency problem and financing constraints. The sample comprises 3250 non-financial Chinese listed firms from 2009 to 2018. This study uses fixed- and random...
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