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Agony of choice : trading off stability and competition in the banking markets

Hellwig, Michael; Laser, Falk Hendrik - 2019 - Preliminary version

We investigate the trade-off between financial stability and competition policy by focusing on the merger of ABN AMRO and Fortis Bank NL in the Dutch retail banking market. The financial crisis delayed the completion of the merger giving rise to anti-competitive behavior in the transitory...

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Family ownership and effects on firm performance in Asia

Högberg, Andreas - 2010 - First draft - work in progress!

The current literature on firm ownership around the world shows that concentrated ownership with only one or a few controlling owners is common, especially in many European and Asian countries. The dispersed ownership has proven to be uncommon and even countries with supposed dispersed ownership...

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Determinants of buyouts in private equity firms

Nordström, Louise - 2010

Private equity companies have become a major force in the economic landscape. Financial- and operational-engineering are innovative characteristics of this emerging method of finance. The existing empirical data provide strong evidence that private equity activity contribute positively to the...

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Kill zones? : effects of big tech start-up acquisitions on innovation : paper prepared for presentation at the International Telecommunications Society (ITS) Biennial Conference Gothenburg, Sweden, June 21-23, 2021

Prado, Tiago S. - 2021

This paper investigates short-term effects of big tech start-up acquisitions on innovation empirically. Innovation research has found a strong positive, causal relationship between VC investment and innovation. Using this insight, we can explore the repercussions of big tech start-up...

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CEO succession in the Polish capital market in 2000-2015

Byrka-Kita, Katarzyna; Czerwiński, Mateusz; … - In: Efficiency in business and economics : proceedings from …, (pp. 39-56). 2018

's stakeholders, and even more important when the company operates in the continental system of corporate governance and the CEO is … structures of the enterprise. Based on such premises, in this article we analyze CEO succession in companies quoted on the Warsaw … Stock Exchange. The article presents the basic characteristics of 1904 CEO appointments which were made in 2000–2015 and is …

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How important are agglomeration effects for plant performance? : empirical evidence for Germany

Fuchs, Michaela; Ludewig, Oliver - 2010 - Preliminary version

The question whether agglomeration effects are of importance for regional development has a long tradition in regional science. This paper asks if regional characteristics and specifically ag-glomeration effects influence the performance of plants in Germany and, if so, in which direction....

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Returns on investments in new ski lifts : the importance of weather conditions and elevation

Falk, Martin - 2015

This paper investigates the factors that influence the change in passenger ski-lift transports between a normal winter and an anomalously mild winter based on individual lift and aggregate ski-area data. Special focus is placed on the return on investments in new ski lifts. Using endogenous...

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Determinants of fast-growing SMEs' concentration in the Russian regions

Zemtsov, Stepan; Barinova, Vera; Sorokina, Alla - 2015

SMEs play an important role in the development of regional innovative systems because of their potential to accept new technologies and show fast growing rates. There is an interdependence between emergence of fast growing SMEs ('gazelles') and innovative development of regions. High level of...

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Increasing the value of Telecom operators with a single EU market

Serrano Calle, Silvia - 2015

In this paper we analyze the risks the European Telecom market is experiencing. Many economic disincentives to investing in infrastructure are related to the fact that market value of the companies can be lower than expected. Next Generation Networks (NGN) deployment require great amounts of...

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Cooperation and innovation performance in rural, low-technology regions

Schiller, Daniel; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Wassmann, Pia - 2014 - This version: June 11, 2014

This paper assesses the extent to which cooperation impacts innovation performance of firms in rural regions characterized by a solid economic performance despite a low-technology industrial structure. Particular emphasis is placed on the spatial and functional dimension of cooperation. Generic...

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