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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 Go...

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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Creation and exploitation of knowledge in multinationals : the importance of local and global spillovers for domestic and foreign exporters

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi-Larijani, Pardis - 2013

This paper examines the importance of localized knowledge for innovative exporters by observing their embeddedness in regional innovation systems and international knowledge flow by using trade data on openness. The study distinguishes between new competence creation as proxied by patent...

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The pre-exit performance of German plants : how long is the "shadow of death"?

Fuchs, Michaela; Weyh, Antje - 2014 - Preliminary version

This paper deals with the question whether firms' employment performance in the periods preceding their exit can be regarded as casting a 'Shadow of Death' on their final leaving the market. This aspect is of high relevance for politicians and other decision-makers, because by knowing more about...

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Was easy access to credit an obstacle to the competitiveness of Spanish SMEs?

García Tabuenca, Antonio; Crecente Romero, Fernando Javier - 2014

In the expansionary phase of the economy (1995-2007) and, particularly after the Euro introduction, credit to the business sector increased significantly in Europe. According to surveys of the EC-Flash Eurobarometer (2005), over 77% of SMEs claimed to have appropriate funding levels. A number of...

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When are localization and urbanization economies important? : evidence from the location of new firms

Jofre-Monseny, Jordi; Marín-López, Raquel; Viladecans … - 2012

The objective of this paper is to analyze the influence of industry characteristics on the localization and urbanization agglomeration patterns of new firm location. To this end, we analyze the location decisions of new manufacturing firms in Spain. First, for a 3-digit level, we identify for...

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Are firms in business groups more productive? : an empirical analysis based on German micro-level data with a special emphasis on the roles of regional and sectoral diversity

Biewen, Elena; Koch, Andreas - 2012 - Preliminiary version

The present paper analyses whether and how the affiliation of a firm to a business group affects its productivity. Based on novel data consisting of official firm data from the German Business Register including ownership information from Bureau van Dijk's MARKUS database and from the Cost...

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