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Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...
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The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit …,046) of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals between 2002 and 2006. This was followed by a second … hospitals performed significantly better than their private for-profit and non-profit counterparts. In addition, we found a …
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Banks entering an emerging market face a lot of uncertainty about the risks involved in lending. We use a unique unbalanced panel of nearly 700 short-term loans made to SMEs in Slovakia between January 2000 and June 2005. Of the loans granted, on average 6.0 per cent of the firms defaulted....
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A firm that faces insufficient supply of labor can either increase the wage offer to attract more applicants, or reduce the hiring standard to enlarge the pool of potential employees, or do both. This simultaneous adjustment of wages and hiring standards has been emphasized in a classical...
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drivers of corporate profit. Moreover, they constitute a major source of profit shifting opportunities in multinational …
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We analyze the determinants of the corporate interest rates and the financial accelerator in the Czech Republic. Using a unique panel of 448 Czech firms from 1996 to 2002, we find that selected balance sheet indicators influence significantly the firm-specific interest rates. In particular, debt...
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We provide indirect empirical evidence of profit shifting behavior by multinational enterprises (MNEs) employing a …) increases its pre-tax profitability by 7%, other things being equal. Various robustness checks support this profit shifting …
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Intangible assets are one major source of profit shifting opportunities due to a highly intransparent transfer pricing … process. Our paper argues that multinational enterprises (MNEs) optimize their profit shifting strategy by locating shifting …
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This paper analyzes whether there exists a causal relationship between parental employment and children's educational attainment. We address potential endogeneity problems due to (i) selection of parents in the labor market by estimating a model on sibling differences and (ii) reverse causality...
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-linked bonds using a state-space estimation. Our results show that once one accounts for time-varying liquidity and inflation risk …
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