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Labor market performance has differed considerably between OECD countries over the last two decades. The focus of the literature so far has been to ask whether these differences can be explained by varying degrees of labor market rigidities and generosity of welfare states. This paper takes a...
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Labor market performance has differed considerably between OECD countries over the last two decades. The focus of the literature so far has been to ask whether these differences can be explained by varying degrees of labor market rigidities and generosity of welfare states. This paper takes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408964
Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318809
Labor market performance has differed considerably between OECD countries over the last two decades. The focus of the literature so far has been to ask whether these differences can be explained by varying degrees of labor market rigidities and generosity of welfare states. This paper takes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320637
Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might be related to idiosyncracies in financial markets with bank-based financial markets as in Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507850
This paper analyzes whether differences in institutional structures on capital markets contribute to explaining why some OECD-countries, in particular the Anglo-Saxon countries, have been much more successful over the last two decades in producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398923
discrepancy in the investment and divestment strategies may be explained by the grandstanding phenomenon, the value … usually finance firms in a later stage, carry through fewer investment rounds and take their portfolio firms public earlier …
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This paper analyzes a comprehensive data set of 160 non venture-backed, 79 venture-backed and 61 bridge financed companies going public at Germany´s Neuer Markt between March 1997 and March 2002. I examine whether these three types of issues differ with regard to issuer characteristics, balance...
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capital investment influences disaggre-gate unemployment. As we expected, venture capital investment has different influences … that venture capital investment is a catalyst of structural change and has contributed to the faster growing internet and …
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In this paper, we investigate the damage to real-sector investment spending and corporate financing activities … triggered by the failure of three major investment banks during the 2007-09 financial crisis. We find that firms characterized … by pre-crisis corporate investment banking relationships with troubled investment banks exhibit significantly lower post …
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