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Economic rents in franchising: Do they exist?

López-Fernández, Begoña; López-Bayón, Susana - In: Economics Letters 113 (2011) 2, pp. 195-198

This work demonstrates the very existence of economic rents in franchising using, for the first time, the franchisees’ actual financial statements. This finding makes franchising more appealing for applicants and supports the hypothesis that rents are efficient devices to motivate franchisees.

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The market structure of the banking sector and financially dependent manufacturing sectors

Hoxha, Indrit - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 27 (2013) C, pp. 432-444

I explore the effect of the structure of the banking market on the performance of manufacturing sectors. The theoretical papers offer ambiguous explanations regarding the effects of banking market structure on the size of manufacturing sectors, and empirical studies that use cross country data...

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Hidden climate change related risks for the private sector

Brunsmeier, Annette; Groth, Markus - 2015

Climate change related risks impact and challenge the private sector in many different ways. This also applies to risk drivers like a companies’ reputation and a changing consumer behavior. Since significant risk drivers for companies differ just as much as companies themselves, a sector...

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Knowledge Intensive Business Services: The Russian Experience

Doroshenko, Marina; Miles, Ian; Vinogradov, Dmitry - In: Foresight-Russia 8 (2014) 4, pp. 24-39

Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) are seen to be a core sector of the so-called ‘knowledge economy’, and … knowledge and learning opportunities. This paper examines the status of KIBS in Russia, and explores some key issues in their … role in innovation using data from surveys of KIBS firms and their clients in Russia. We note that KIBS are often highly …

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Impacto de las TIC en el nivel de innovación en América Latina y el Caribe: Estimaciones econométricas a nivel de un panel

Cabrera, Karol Rodríguez; Ospina, Jorge Andrés Vélez - UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE COLOMBIA - 2013

La contribución de las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones TIC como jalonador principal de la innovación y este a su vez como fuente de crecimiento y desarrollo económico, ha tomado gran importancia en la agenda pública mundial; por su parte los países de América Latina,...

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Konjunkturtest im Fokus: Lagerbestand und Reichweite der Aufträge in der Industrie

Seiler, Christian; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Wojciechowski, … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 67 (2014) 21, pp. 40-46

Bei dem ifo Konjunkturtest Verarbeitendes Gewerbe werden auch Aspekte der Lagerhaltung und des Auftragsbestands abgefragt. Der Artikel wirft einen Blick auf diese Variablen und den Zusammenhang zwischen diesen. Es zeigt sich, dass auf oberster aggregierter Ebene das Fertigwarenlager und der...

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Die ifo Konjunkturbefragungen im Dienstleistungssektor – Hintergründe, Erklärungen und Performance

Wohlrabe, Klaus; Wojciechowski, Przemyslaw - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 67 (2014) 21, pp. 47-53

Der Dienstleistungssektor ist gemäß der Bruttowertschöpfung der größte Wirtschaftsbereich in Deutschland. Seit 2005 erfassen auch die ifo Konjunkturbefragungen monatlich diesen Bereich systematisch. Der Artikel stellt die Hintergründe und die Ergebnisse der Dienstleistungsbefragungen vor....

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Assessing bank competition for consumer loans

Bolt, Wilko; Humphrey, David - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2015

We assess the competitiveness of the $400 billion dollar U.S. bank consumer loan market by comparing results from different competition measures-HHI, Lerner Index, H-Statistic along with three others, two of which are related to frontier analysis. These measures are typically weakly related to...

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Die Industrie - ein wichtiger Treiber der Nachfrage nach Dienstleistungen

Edler, Dietmar; Eickelpasch, Alexander - In: DIW Wochenbericht 80 (2013) 34, pp. 16-23

The manufacturing sector is a major purchaser of services and therefore has a significant impact on growth in the service sector. Conversely, there is not as much impetus generated by services to the manufacturing sector. In 2009, industrial production led to the creation of a further 3.8...

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An analysis of eco-efficiency in energy use and CO2 emissions in the Swedish service industries

Martínez, Pardo; Inés, Clara - In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 47 (2013) 2, pp. 120-130

This study determines the trends in energy efficiency and CO2 emissions of the Swedish service sector using data at the 2-digit level of aggregation for the Swedish service industry over the period 1993–2008, this empirical study examines eco-efficiency in terms of energy efficiency and CO2...

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