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performance. The main effect of the implication of banks in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) translates into a higher degree of … relationship between bank performance and degree of concentration of the Slovenian banking sector during 2006-2012 using a simple …
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highlight the main features of the performance in the manufacturing, processing and preserving sector of white meat in Romania … performance in this sector was compared the national sector and the European one and the time frame for analysis is between the …
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We study how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing their performance in “high” and “low … section of the GRE. We find that Males exhibit a larger drop in performance between the high and low stakes examinations than … females, and Whites exhibit a larger drop in performance compared to minorities. Differences between high and low stakes tests …
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This paper carries out style analysis for Russian mutual funds using monthly data from the National Managers’ Association over the period January 2008-December 2017; specifically, it applies the RSBA method developed by Sharpe (1992) for evaluating the impact of style on returns, and uses the...
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We estimate the causal effect of direct elections on the economic performance of politicians. Candidates running in …
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To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of organisational change within firms. With these measures, we directly address the complementarities between ICT and organisational changes. Our results support the view that organisational...
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one clinical unit. We use the model to analyze how resource allocation affects both process performance and utilization of … resources. This approach emphasizes how allocation of resources to tasks affects process performance. We illustrate how the … model can be used to analyze how variations in resources affect process performance and for example how ICT affects process …
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In a calibrated consumption-portfolio model with stock, housing, and labor income predictability, we disentangle the welfare effects of skill and luck. Skilled investors are able to take advantage of all sources of predictability, whereas unskilled investors ignore predictability. Lucky...
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significantly improve their performance. …
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This paper examines the effect of incentives on the performance of darts players. We analyze four data sets comprising … natural research setting, because performance can be observed at the individual level and without the obscuring effects of … higher incentives, but choke when the incentives are really high. Professional players similarly display better performance …
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