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Bank Owners or Bank Managers: Who is Keen on Risk? Evidence from the Financial Crisis

Gropp, Reint E.; Köhler, Matthias - 2010

In this paper, we analyse whether bank owners or bank managers were the driving force behind the risks incurred in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2008. We show that owner controlled banks had higher profits in the years before the crisis, and incurred larger losses and were more likely...

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Innovation Activities and Financial Performance: The Case of Kosovo

Latifaj, Arbnora - 2018

The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of innovation activities and its determinants on firm performance. For the empirical analysis of the study we use Business Environment Enterprise Performance Surveys (BEEPS) firm-level data conducted by the World Bank and the European Bank...

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Is competition just a question of numbers? An analysis of the impact of the entry of Free Mobile into the French mobile telecommunications market

Berne, Michel; Vialle, Pierre; Whalley, Jason - 2016

form of price, handset or bundling based competition. In this paper we explore the impact that one such disruptive mobile …

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Economy of Moldavian wine complex in context of European Union integration

Gaina, Boris; Cobirman, Galina; Pascari, Xenia - 2014

To realize the Moldavian political vector of European Union integration, a paramount importance has the increase of effectiveness of wine complex and the national economy in a whole. During the accession process, current and future development of vine culture and winemaking is assessed, which...

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Pursuit of Competitive Advantages for Entrepreneurship: Development of Enterprise as a Learning Organization. International and Russian Experience

Dokukina, Anna - 2004

, competition, intellectual capital, learning organization, knowledge management, corporate university. …

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Start-up intensity, competition and regional economic development

Koster, Sierdjan; Van Stel, André; Folkeringa, Mickey - 2010

regional level (see Fritsch, 2008, for a survey) which suggests that competition among incumbent firms is caused by (lagged …) start-up rates. Contrary to earlier research the present paper employs a direct measure of the level of competition between …

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New objectives of the French high-speed rail system within the framework of a highly centralized network: A substitute for the domestic air transport market?

Zembri, Pierre - 2010

SNCF can be considered as an active player in the Air transport competition, offering low travel times, competitive prices … Marseilles, 21 between Paris and Bordeaux, etc. The development of the TGV network creates new opportunities of competition with … Air France and other carriers. That is one of the reasons of the relative weakness of competition within the domestic Air …

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St. Petersburg Metropolitan Region: Problems of Planning Coordination and Spatial Development

Limonov, Leonid - 2013

needs a coordinated approach: 1) competition for investment, human resources, federal infrustructure projects, taxes and …

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Internationalization, competition and transfer of knowledge: And the efforts by companies in BRIC countries to enter markets in USA and Europe

Westeren, Knut Ingar - 2013

Internationalization and competition now cuts across national borders, a firm?s position in one country is no longer … and transportation costs compared to the cost of the actual traded goods has dropped substantially. Competition now also … cuts across sector boundaries and market segments: This growing complexity of competition has changed the determinants of …

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The Interplay of Innovation and Market Structure in German Chemical Industry: Theoretical and Emprical Results on a Dynamic Schumpeter Loop

Schubert, Torben - 2010

This paper investigates the relationship between innovation activities and market structure in German chemical industry. We present a formal model that suggests the existence of a self-enforcing dynamic feedback between market concentration and innovation. This model is tested on the basis of...

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