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rigidity. The third essay analyses how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm performance in a … among heterogeneous producers and increases average productivity and profit levels, firm-level bargaining allows less … productive entrants to remain in the market. The positive effect of centralised bargaining on average productivity can, however …
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During the past decades, globalisation in all of its facets dominated many controversial debates of political leaders and common citizens and called the predominant attention of the international press and the scientific community. A major phenomenon in this context is the ongoing...
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-and-trade program and financial constraints. I use the change in the permit prices and the heterogeneity in permit allocation to …
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competitiveness. At the same time, they increase productivity and industrial up-grading in the region of location and can be …
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This essay examines the impact of foreign portfolio investment on the financial constraints of small firms. Utilizing a dataset of over 195,000 firm-year observations across 53 countries, I examine the impact of foreign portfolio investment on capital issuance and firm growth across countries...
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This dissertation comprises three distinct economic stduies. The first deals with the origin of business cycle fluctuations and the other two with the measurement of financial constraints and the identification of the respective treatment effect.
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other hand, have not been successful in incorporating both individual rationality and inter-individual heterogeneity …
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heterogeneity as an unobserved state that raises a firm's research productivity. In my analysis, I find that increased investment in … incorporatingunobserved firm-level heterogeneity using techniques from Arcidiacono and Miller (2007). I use publicly available panel data on …
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Heterogeneity in measurement model parameters across known groups can be modeled and tested using multigroup … characteristics to capture heterogeneity and have the potential to be used to test measurement invariance. The current study … sample sizes, more noninvariant factor loadings, and larger amounts of heterogeneity are needed to distinguish different …
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