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Investment in telecommunications infrastructure, growth, and employment - recent research
Wieck, Reinhard; Vidal, Miguel - 2010
employment. Investments in telecommunications infrastructure could not only provide a short-term boost to the economy, but also … related to digital infrastructure. Indeed research findings indicate that telecom investment has an impact far beyond the … their key findings, addressing methodology and assessing total contributions of telecom infrastructure investment to GDP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304257
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Economic Growth and Infrastructure in Brazil: A Spatial Multilevel Approach
Almeida, Eduardo; Guimarães, Pablo - 2014
The relation between infrastructure and economic growth has been largely investigated in the literature, but the … empirical evidence found has proven to be controversial. This paper aims to empirically analyze the impact of infrastructure … stocks on economic growth. In spite of there being theoretical justification for taking infrastructure into account in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399954
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Dynamic Tax Competition under Asymmetric Productivity of Public Capital
Tanaka, Hiroki; Hidaka, Masahiro - 2010
We here expand the static tax competition models in symmetric small regions, which were indicated by Zodrow and Mieszkowski (1986) and Wilson (1986), to a dynamic tax competition model in large regions, taking consideration of the regional asymmetry of productivity of public capital and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332630
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Corporate Governance in Poland: the Impact of Mass Privatization
Rapacki, Ryszard - 2000
. Unlike similar mass privatization schemes in other transition economies (e.g. Russia, Czech Republic or Slovakia) the Polish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453388
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Foundation Owned Firms in Germany - a Field Experiment for Agency Theory
Franke, Günter; Draheim, Matthias - 2015
This paper analyzes the governance and performance of firms which, according to simplistic agency theory, should not be viable. These firms are fully or partially owned by a foundation which itself is not owned by natural or legal persons. Therefore, residual claimholders have restricted or no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301813
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Top Team Demographics, Innovation And Business Performance: Findings From English Firms And Cities, 2008-9
Nathan, Max - 2013
High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning their attention to the long-term effects of diversity on productivity. Yet little is known about these issues. This paper asks: what are the links between the composition of firms'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397296
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Self-Serving Behavior in Price-Quality Competition
Halbheer, Daniel; Bertini, Marco; Koenigsberg, Oded - 2013
Managers like to think well of themselves, and of the firms that employ them. However, positive illusions can bias a manager's evaluation of market outcomes, self-servingly crediting success on the superior quality of one's own product but blaming failure on the aggressive price of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329368
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Bargaining Power and the Labor Share - a Structural Break Approach
Kraft, Kornelius; Lammers, Alexander - 2021
In this paper we investigate the relevance of bargaining institutions for the decline of the labor share. Several explanations for the decline exist, which consider the relevance of technology, globalization and markups. Neglected so far is the influence of bargaining institutions, in particular...
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Circular Business Models: Product Design and Consumer Participation
Bühler, Stefan; Chen, Rachel; Halbheer, Daniel - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014363659
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Why Firms Should Care for All Consumers
Planer-Friedrich, Lisa; Sahm, Marco - 2017
We compare the strategic potential of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Customer Orientation (CO) as commitments to larger quantities in Cournot competition, modeled as a multi-stage game. First, in addition to profits, firms can choose to care for the surplus of either all consumers...
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