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Productivity Divergence – Frontier Firms vs. the Others

Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri; Ylhäinen, Ilkka - 2017

International literature suggests that productivity growth of the global frontier firms – those in the best five percent – has diverged from the others during the 2000s. We study this issue using Finnish firm-level data. We find that the productivity of the Finnish frontier firms does not...

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Import promotion as an instrument of development cooperation: Lessons from European experiences for Austrian development cooperation

Grumiller, Jan; Raza, Werner G. - 2019

This briefing paper discusses import promotion agencies (IPOs) as a comparatively new instrument of development cooperation in Europe. The paper assesses the potential of import promotion agencies to promote exports from Low Income Countries (LICs) to High Income Countries (HICs). The...

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Greening economies in partner countries: Priorities for international cooperation

Altenburg, Tilman; Pegels, Anna; Böhl Gutierrez, Mauricio - 2024

While polluting industries are still flourishing, the green economy is on the rise. In low- and middle-income countries, the resulting opportunities are mostly underexplored. The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)'s new strategy for 'Sustainable economic development,...

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Neugliederung des Bundesgebietes - oder Kooperation der Bundesländer?

Benz, Arthur; Detemple, Jessica; Erbguth, Wilfried; … - 2015

performance. In Germany, not all Länder meet this precondition to a sufficient extent. In the city states and smaller Länder …

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Drivers and extent of foreign direct investment in Sub-Sahara Africa

Görg, Holger - 2023

compares the performance of African countries in terms of those determinants with that of other potential host countries. …

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Culture, feedback, and gender in education

Kinne, Lavinia - 2023

which positive and negative performance feedback is provided, matters for study motivation and to some extent also exam … performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …

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Internationalization of Banks: Strategic Patterns and Performance

Slager, Alfred - 2005

between internationalization and performance, we calculated the difference between foreign and domestic profitability. We also …

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Corporate Governance und Unternehmenserfolg - Eine empirische Analyse des Zusammenhangs zwischen den Führungs-, Kontroll- und Anreizstrukturen und der Geschäftsentwicklung deutsche...

Steinbrecher, Johannes - 2016

Das internationale Bankensystem stand in den vergangenen Jahren im Fokus des öffentlichen Interesses. Bei der Diskussion möglicher Optionen zur Verbesserung der Finanzsystemstabilität rückt zunehmend die Corporate Governance in Banken in den Fokus. Der vorliegende Forschungsbericht widmet...

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Using G/G/m-models for multi-server and mainframe capacity planning

Müller-Clostermann, Bruno - 2007

-term performance goals with respect to service class specific execution velocity, wait time and wait time percentiles. The same … performance measures are useful for long-term capacity management. On the basis of wellknown approximate results for G …/G/m queueing models we derive analytical formulas for the calculation of (global) steady state performance measures. We illustrate …

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CapSys: A tool for macroscopic capacity planning of IBM mainframe systems

Tilev, Milen; Müller-Clostermann, Bruno - 2008

overall system. We follow the classic approach known from performance modelling to compose a model essentially out of two …

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