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Reputational concerns and advice-seeking at work

Heursen, Lea; Friess, Svenja; Chugunova, Marina - 2023

We examine the impact of reputational concerns on seeking advice. While seeking can improve performance, it may affect how others perceive the seeker's competence. In an online experiment with white-collar professionals (N=2,521), we test how individuals navigate this tradeoff and if others'...

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What drives bilateral remittances to Pakistan? : a gravity model approach

Ahmed, Junaid; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2014

Formal remittance flows to Pakistan have shown noticeable growth over the past decade. Using bilateral remittance data for 23 major source countries, this study examines the external and internal factors driving these remittance flows during the period 2001-2011. We estimate a gravity model for...

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Measuring knowledge spillovers in manufacturing and services : an empirical assessment of alternative approaches

Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999

In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools suggested in existing literature measures the extent to which a firm can costlessly receive external knowlegde best. Since knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit'...

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Do transfer costs matter for foreign remittances? : a gravity model approach

Ahmed, Junaid; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2015

Using bilateral data on remittance flows to Pakistan for 23 major host countries, in the first study of its kind, the authors examine the effect of transaction costs on foreign remittances. They find that the effect of transaction costs on remittance flows is negative and significant; suggesting...

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Distance effects in CMBS loan pricing : banks versus non-banks

Eichholtz, Piet; Ongena, Steven; Yönder, Erkan - 2019

Comparing banks to non-bank lenders, we investigate whether the geographical distance between lenders, borrowers and their properties is reflected in the pricing of US mortgages that were included in US CMBS pools during the 2000 to 2017 period. The difference in loan spread when bank-borrower...

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Spatio-temporal patterns of the international merger and acquisition network

Duenas, Marco; Mastrandrea, Rossana; Barigozzi, Matteo; … - 2017

This paper analyzes the world web of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) using a complex network approach. We use data of M&As to build a temporal sequence of binary and weighted-directed networks, for the period 1995-2010 and 224 countries. We study different geographical and temporal aspects of...

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Distance and modern banks' lending to SMEs : decentralised versus centralised banking in Germany

Flögel, Franz - 2016

By lending to SMEs at low geographical distance, banks can realise competitive advantage due to enhanced access to soft information that allows the better screening of firms. As especially regional banks lend at a low distance, the decentralised German banking system is deemed ideal for SME...

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Proximity is a social process : a conceptual framework

Dettmann, Anja; Brenner, Thomas - 2010

Spatial proximity is assumed in the literature to be a prerequisite and trigger for cooperation and, subsequently …, innovation. This paper examines conceptually the role of proximity between actors for cooperation activities. Using theories and … development of professional collaborative relationships and the role that spatial proximity plays. Thereby the paper stays on the …

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Digital infrastructure and physical proximity

Tranos, Emmanouil; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013

. Accessibility and proximity have become keywords in understanding the geographical pattern of the "homo mobilis". The question is if …

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A proximity-based measure of industrial clustering

Ruan, Jianqing; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2015

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