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On the Size Distribution of Financial Institutions
Goddard, John - 2012
This study examines the firm size distribution of US financial institutions. A truncated lognormal distribution describes the size distribution, measured using assets data, of a large population of small, community-based commercial banks. The size distribution of a smaller but increasingly...
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Sunk Costs, Firm Size, and Internationalization
Braunerhjelm, Pontus - 2017
One strand of the industrial organization literature argues that outlays on sunk costs are endogenous in market expansion, implying an adaptive adjustment by firms to preserve their market share. A different view is taken in the literature on firms' internationalization. Here it is argued that...
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Size Management by European Private Firms to Minimize Proprietary Costs of Disclosure
Bernard, Darren - 2018
We examine size management by European private firms for which disclosure requirements increase at size thresholds. Our estimates suggest at least 8% of firms near thresholds that impose income statement disclosure manage size downward, and the average firm that manages size sacrifices more than...
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Concentration and other wage determinants
Martins, Ana Paula - 2018
This research presents evidence on how the impact of industry concentration and unionism affect the Portuguese wage levels. The influence of employer association is also considered. We use sector information - two-digit level disaggregation of "Classificação das Actividades Económicas" -, and...
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Features and determinants of the firm size distribution : an enpirical analysis with Brazilian data
Foguel, Miguel Nathan; Ribeiro, Eduardo Pontual - 2023
The Pareto distribution has been used to describe firm sizes in many theoretical models for its convenience and empirical validity. We provide estimates of the Pareto parameters across industries and investigate the determinants of the shape of the firm size distribution in Brazil. The Pareto...
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Innovative Change, Dynamic Market Allocation and Long-Term Stability of Economic Growth
Eliasson, Gunnar - 1986
Market competition is central to innovative activity, the diffusion process and macro-economic productivity growth …. Productivity growth at all levels comes about through institutional reconfiguration in response to the ongoing market process …. Stable and sustained long-term growth in output requires the continuous creation of new technological and commercial …
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Discriminatory fees, coordination and investment in shared ATM networks
Ferrari, Stijn - 2010
This paper empirically examines the effects of discriminatory fees on ATM investment and welfare, and considers the … role of coordination in ATM investment between banks. Our main findings are that foreign fees tend to reduce ATM … when a social planner decides on discriminatory fees and ATM investment to maximize total welfare. This implies that there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506704
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Discriminatory Fees, Coordination and Investment in Shared ATM Networks
Ferrari, Stijn - 2010
This paper empirically examines the effects of discriminatory fees on ATM investment and welfare, and considers the … role of coordination in ATM investment between banks. Our main findings are that foreign fees tend to reduce ATM … when a social planner decides on discriminatory fees and ATM investment to maximize total welfare. This implies that there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137922
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Discriminatory fees, coordination and investment in shared ATM networks
Ferrari, Stijn - 2010
This paper empirically examines the effects of discriminatory fees on ATM investment and welfare, and considers the … role of coordination in ATM investment between banks. Our main findings are that foreign fees tend to reduce ATM … when a social planner decides on discriminatory fees and ATM investment to maximize total welfare. This implies that there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597034
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Market power and duration of R&D investment in a panel of Italian firms
Bontempi, Maria Elena; Lambertini, Luca; Medeossi, Erica - 2016
&D investment at the firm level. The contribution of this study is threefold: first, we extend Máñez et al. [2014], Triguero et al … continuing investment in R&D depends on the market power of companies. We test alternative measures for market power: the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705599