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Choice of ownership structure and firm performance: Evidence from Estonia

Jones, Derek C.; Kalmi, Panu; Mygind, Niels - EconWPA - 2003

transition economies has identified the impact of ownership on economic performance.) However, the findings in this paper also …

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Union Retreat and Regional Economic Performance: the UK in the 1990s

Monastiriotis, Vassilis - EconWPA - 2003

in the UK had on the economic performance of its regions. The analysis employed here departs from the traditional firm …

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Latvia: Working Too Hard?

Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

This paper provides an assessment of employment and working conditions in Latvia before and immediately after the EU accession. The issues addressed include self-employment, multiple jobs, fixed-term contracts, unreported wages, overtime, unsocial working hours, health and safety at work, social...

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Entrepreneurial Innovation

Rigotti, Luca; Ryan, Matthew; Vaithianathan, Rhema - EconWPA - 2001

This paper constructs an equilibrium model of entrepreneurial innovation where individuals differ in their attitude toward uncertainty. Unlike previous models of innovation, the firm-formation process is endogenous. An entrepreneur, who owns residual profits, utilizes an uncertain technology and...

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Partial Privatization and Firm Performance: Evidence from India

Gupta, Nandini - EconWPA - 2001

however that even the sale of minority stakes has a positive impact on firm performance and productivity. As the government … monitoring managerial performance rather than to a change in owners' objectives. Consistent with this interpretation, we find … evidence also suggests that privatization and competition have a complementary impact on firm performance. …

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PERFORMANCES ÉCONOMIQUES ET INVESTISSEMENT DES ENTREPRISE INDUSTRIELLES FRANCAISES

Paranque, Bernard - EconWPA - 1995

Cette article se propose d'identifier des comportements économiques spécifiques et de les mettre en rapport avec les décisions d'investissement, en particulier immatériel, opérés par les entreprises. Il est tout d'abord nécessaire de définir la compétitivité et de proposer un...

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Labor Conflict and Foreign Investments: An Analysis of FDI in India

Menon, Nidhiya; Sanyal, Paroma - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyzes patterns of foreign direct investment in India. We investigate how labor conflict, credit constraints, and indicators of a state’s economic health influence location decisions of foreign firms. We account for the possible endogeneity of labor conflict variables in modeling...

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A Tractable Model of Reciprocity and Fairness

Cox, James; Friedman, Daniel; Gjerstad, Steven - EconWPA - 2004

We introduce a parametric model of other-regarding preferences. The income distribution and the kindness or unkindness of others' choices ('intentions') systematically affect a person's emotional state. The emotional state systematically affects the marginal rate of substitution between own and...

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The role of interchange fees in ATM networks

Donze, Jocelyn; Dubec, Isabelle - EconWPA - 2003

We develop a model to study the deployment of shared automated teller machines (ATMs) by banks when an interchange system compensates them for processing foreign withdrawals. The interchange fee is chosen collectively by banks and it is paid by the withdrawer's bank to the ATM-owning bank. We...

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Managerial diseconomies of scale: Literature survey and hypotheses anchored in transaction cost economics

Canback, Staffan - EconWPA - 1998

bureaucratic failure have a negative impact on firm performance; (4) Economies of scale increase the relative profitability of …

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