This paper aims at analysing the determinants of the recent wave of European banks to Brazil under the context of the … European banks in Brazil, as well as the expansion strategy of the four major European banks in Latin America - BSCH, BBVA …, HSBC and ABN-Amro. In this regard, it shows that the recent wave of European banks entering Latin America and Brazil is …

. Dieses Engagement dehnen die Glaubensgemeinschaften in wachsendem Maße auf den Bereich der Politik aus. In Brasilien kommt …

cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …

innovators from high-productivity firms. These findings suggest that innovation subsidies contribute to economic renewal and the …

International literature suggests that productivity growth of the global frontier firms – those in the best five … productivity of the Finnish frontier firms does not diverge from the others to such a degree as in the international comparisons …

employment, especially among young and small companies. Impacts on the productivity are, however, uncertain. Cooperation of … help firms to grow larger but do not improve their productivity. …