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National investment programs and sustainable development

Szyja, Paulina - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 14 (2014) 2, pp. 177-192

-crisis programs to conduct investments. In most cases, they concentrated on modernization of transport or energy infrastructure. In … Poland it would have been presented program "Polish Investments". The main purposes of the article is presentation of public … investments programs and their role in sustainable development. …

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The effect of horizontal mergers, when firms compete in prices and investments

Motta, Massimo; Tarantino, Emanuele - 2017

gains, the merger lowers total investments and consumer surplus.Only if it entails suffcient effciency gains, will it be pro …-competitive. We also show there exist classes of models for which the results obtained with cost-reducing investments are equivalent … to those with quality-enhancing investments. …

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Insights into the Impact of Bankruptcy's Public Record on Entrepreneurial Activity: Evidence from Economic Experiments

Dulleck, Uwe; Howell, Nicola J.; Koessler, Ann-Kathrin; … - 2018

Many Anglo-American jurisdictions aim to provide debtors with a 'fresh start' after a personal bankruptcy. However, we query the extent to which debtors can achieve a fresh start if records of individual bankruptcies are publicly available, with no restrictions on their use. To inform the legal...

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Local peer effects and corporate investment

Bao, Yangming; Goetz, Martin - 2018

causal impact of local firms' investments. Using this as an instrumental variable in a 2SLS estimation, we find that an … competition among firms is stronger and supports theories that firm investments are strategic substitutes due to competition. …

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Misvaluation and financial constraints: Method of payment and buyer identity in mergers & acquisitions

Berg, Aron - 2017

The paper studies how stock price misvaluation and financial frictions affect whether an acquisition occurs between or within industries and whether the acquirer pays in cash or stocks. I set up a model where stock market misvaluation correlates within industries and across industries and assume...

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Payroll taxes and firm performance

Egebark, Johan; Kaunitz, Niklas - 2017

negligible effects on gross investments, and negative, but not statistically significant, effects on labor productivity. …

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Private Pensions Market Development in Romania in 2014

Colomeischi, Tudor; Iancu, Eugenia - 2016

, investments and the average rate of return of private pension funds …

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Cooperation programs regarding the development of turnover in rural area

Godja, Daniela Ileana - 2017

This paper aims to analyze the data regarding the cooperation programs supporting the development of agrotourism of Romania. The data were taken from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and were processed according to the objectives of the paper, namely the allocation of European...

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China's energy policy & investments and their impact on the Sub-Saharan African region

Grimoux, Valentin - 2018

This research provides a grasp of China's energy needs and their implications for SSA countries in order to give a balanced and better understanding of its role on the continent. More specifically, the aim is to understand why and how China is involved in the SSA energy sector and what are the...

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Exit dynamics of start-up firms. Does profit matter?

Golombek, Rolf; Raknerud, Arvid - 2012

While little attention has been paid to the role of profitability in the empirical literature on firm exit, we employ a detailed recently established database of Norwegian manufacturing firms to identify the extent to which profitability explains a firm's exit behavior. Some key characteristics...

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