The approach by comparison establishes the limits of the shares market value by analyzing the prices, normally paid for shares to the competing entities to the one evaluated. In order to select the comparison base, the motivations of the parties involved in the transaction must be identified....

Dutch public transport provision has been competitively tendered out increasingly since 2001. Except for the Amsterdam city bus services, all bus transport in the country is carried out under a competitively tendered contact. Several evaluations have been carried out on the effects of...

Using empirical data I demonstrate that the result of performance evaluations by percentiles can be drastically influenced by the proper choice of the journal in which a manuscript is published.

The percentile-based rating scale P100 describes the citation impact in terms of the distribution of unique citation values. This approach has recently been refined by considering also the frequency of papers with the same citation counts. Here I compare the resulting P100′ with P100 for an...

This paper uses a difference-in-differences approach, combined with propensity score matching, to identify the effect of older workers employment protection on French firms' incentives to sponsor training. Between 1987 and 2008, French firms laying off workers aged over 50 had to pay a tax to...

Governments' financial constraints, on one side, and the need of support by private firmsin facing the globalised competition and the actual economic crisis, on the other one, ask forthe revision and rationalization of industrial public policies. Now, more than ever, it is importantto highlight...