This paper examines the role of geography and culture in explaining bankruptcy. We adopt survival analyses to model the … bankruptcy risk of a firm, allowing for time-varying covariates. Based on a large sample from all major sectors of the Swiss …-periphery approach, has a significant impact on its bankruptcy risk; (ii) Variables proxying for the cultural environment of a firm have …

confirmed. -- bankruptcy ; geography ; culture ; exit …This paper examines the role of geography and culture in explaining bankruptcy. We adopt survival analyses to model the … bankruptcy risk of a firm, allowing for time-varying covariates. Based on a large sample from all major sectors of the Swiss …

Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …

Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …

Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …

Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …

Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …

Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited … by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of …

Exploiting the unique economic situation after German unification, I investigate how exit decisions deviate between new … firms in a transition and a comparatively stable market environment. Two competing exit mechanisms are considered … the competing exit modes proves to be crucial in semi-parametric propor- tional hazard-rate estimations. Comparing East …

and the Dun & Bradstreet exit database for Switzerland (1995-2000). Employing duration analysis, we find considerable …