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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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Agony of choice : trading off stability and competition in the banking markets
Hellwig, Michael; Laser, Falk Hendrik - 2019 - Preliminary version
savings accounts treating the banks as two separate entities despite a factually combined ownership. Our analysis builds on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268034
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Business networks, social capital and the productivity of creative industries : a case study of Indonesia : ERSA Vienna, 56th Congress, 23-26 August 2016
Fahmi, Fikri Zul - 2016
so doing, mixed methods are employed, including multilevel modelling as well as qualitative analysis, which is also … paper creative and traditional cultural industries are differentiated. The results of multilevel analysis show that social … with the productivity of traditional cultural industries. This conclusion is affirmed by the qualitative analysis, which …
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Import competition and firm productivity : evidence from German manufacturing
Braeuer, Richard; Mertens, Matthias; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2020
This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm-level panel data from German manufacturing. We find that only import competition from high-income countries is associated with positive incentives for firms to invest in...
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What drives the location choice of new manufacturing plants in Germany?
Krenz, Astrid - 2020
Almost 30 years after German reunification, a persistent gap in different firm performance measures exists between East … the Offices of the Laender. The analysis provides first-time evidence regarding how in particular the location decision of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437480
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Analysis of commuting in the Moscow region using GIS techniques
Shitova, Yulia Yu.; Shitov, Yury A.; Mitroshin, Anton A.; … - 2014
and perspectives of the proposed innovative analysis techniques of commuting patterns are discussed. …
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Optimal number of firms in the wireless markets
Jeanjean, François; Houngbonon, Georges Vivien - 2015 - Preliminary version
In this paper, we design a theoretical model to analyze the impact of the number of firms on investment in the wireless communications industry. Our model extends the Salop's framework by introducing investment in quality that either reduces the marginal cost of production or shifts the...
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Firm growth : regional, industry & strategy effects in a Latin American economy : 2011 ERSA Congress, Barcelona
Jung, Andrés; Plottier, Cecilia; Francia, Heber - 2011
environment within which those firms operate, in a small Latin American economy (Uruguay); b) framing that analysis within the … economies, and our conjecture is that factors associated to micro and meso level of analysis, in this regional context, matter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011530202
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Analysis of municipal election outcomes in Romania
Jula, Nicolae-Marius; Jula, Dorin - 2011
In Romania, the 2008 local elections were held based on a new electoral law. The main changes concerned the election of chairpersons of county councils by uninominal voting, shifting of the general and presidential elections and the introduction of a uninominal voting system for parliamentary...
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Job switching : what's in it for me?
Backman, Mikaela; Kilkenny, Maureen - 2014
This paper analyse how previous experience and affiliation influence individual employees but also the current employers. Knowledge can be embodied in several different forms, in individuals, in books, in machines, or in processes. Human capital refers to embodied knowledge in individuals,...
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