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Acquire and fire? : evidence from European mergers
Furlan, Benjamin - 2015
This paper provides a systematic analysis on the employment effects after merger and acquisition activities for a sample of European production firms. Rather than taking the perspective of the acquired firm, which has been extensively addressed in previous research, this paper focuses on the...
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The role of intermediaries in selection markets : evidence from mortgage lending
Allen, Jason; Clark, Robert; Houde, Jean-François; Li, … - 2023 - Last updated: February 24, 2023
We study the role of intermediaries (brokers) in the Canadian mortgage market. In this market, consumers can search for quotes in one of two ways: on their own or via a broker. We provide descriptive evidence that borrowers who transact through brokers are different from those who do not....
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Digitalization : prices of goods and services
Chu, Vivian; Dahlhaus, Tatjana; Hajzler, Christopher - 2023
What are the implications of digitalization for prices? This paper explores this question by looking at the various channels through which digitalization can affect prices. First, we assess the importance of the direct channel - the prices of digital goods and services in the consumer price...
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The endogeneity-to-demand of the national emergency utilization rate
Nikiforos, Michalis - 2021
The paper provides an empirical discussion of the national emergency utilization rate (NEUR), which is based on a "national emergency" definition of potential output and is published by the US Census Bureau. Over the peak-to-peak period 1989-2019, the NEUR decreased by 14.2 percent. The paper...
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Notes on the accumulation and utilization of capital : some theoretical issues
Nikiforos, Michalis - 2020
This paper discusses some issues related to the triangle between capital accumulation, distribution, and capacity …
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Notes on the accumulation and utilization of capital : some empirical issues
Nikiforos, Michalis - 2020
This paper discusses some issues related to the triangle between capital accumulation, distribution, and capacity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208160
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Digitalization : productivity
Mollins, Jeffrey; Taskin, Temel - 2023
We examine the relationship between digitalization and productivity, the factors that influence this relationship, and … how digitalization’s effect on productivity could change firm behaviour. …
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Growth and innovation in the presence of knowledge and R&D accumulation dynamics
Verba, Michael - 2015
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Productivity effects of an exogenous improvement in transport infrastructure : accessibility and the Great Belt Bridge
De Borger, Bruno L.; Mulalic, Ismir; Rouwendal, Jan - 2019
neighbouring island and the mainland of Denmark. We analyse the effect of the opening of the bridge on the productivity of firms … throughout the country using a two-step approach: we estimate firm- and year-specific productivity for a large panel of …-fixed effects, we relate productivity to a calculated measure of accessibility that captures the effect of the opening of the bridge …
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Measuring productivity dispersion
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltán - 2017
Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological …
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