Search Results - Business Economics

M&As and innovation: A new approach to classifying technology

Amoroso, Sara; Davies, Ronald B. - 2025

technological classifications of their patents. The first is a coarse measure of business activity and overlooks supply chains. The … second may incorrectly match technical features with no overlapping business relation. In contrast, we offer an alternative … technical business areas (TBAs). Similarity in this more parsimonious measure is highly related to the probability of a given M …

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Levelling the playing field? SES differences in graduate degree choices

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2025

entered. Low SES students are less likely to enter business/economic fields and more likely to enter education -- the lowest …

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Kernel density smoothing as a means for the construction of anonymized regional maps

Rendtel, Ulrich; Gril, Lorena - 2025

The smearing effect of kernel estimates of the local density, local proportions and local means is used as a means for the construction of anonymized maps. The standard anonymization criteria were derived for the display of case numbers of a predefined area system. However, for kernel estimates...

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Divisive by design shaping values In optimal mechanisms

Prummer, Anja; Nava, Francesco - 2025

We study a principal who allocates a good to agents with private, independently distributed values through an optimal mechanism. The principal can strategically shape these value distributions by modifying the good's features, which affect agents' valuations. Our analysis reveals that optimal...

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Polynomial Chaos Expansion: Efficient Evaluation and Estimation of Computational Models

Fehrle, Daniel; Heiberger, Christopher; Huber, Johannes - In: Computational Economics 65 (2025) 2, pp. 1083-1146

theory of PCE and apply it to the standard real business cycle model as an illustrative example. We analyze the convergence …

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Introduction to the Univariate Analysis of Trends in Economic Time Series

Silva Lopes, Artur - 2025

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic review of most of the literature on the univariate analysis of trends in economic time series. It also provides original insights and criticisms on some of the topics that are addressed. Its chapter structure is as follows. 1 Introduction...

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Relevance of debt- and tax-related motives for conditional conservatism of limited-liability and full-liability firms: evidence from Europe

Bigus, Jochen; Georgiou, Nadine - In: Journal of Business Economics 95 (2025) 2, pp. 385-426

In contrast to shareholders of limited-liability firms, the owners of sole proprietorships and partnerships are fully liable for their firm’s liabilities. We expect owners’ full liability to mitigate agency problems of debt and to lower creditors’ demand for financial debt covenants and...

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Replication studies in finance and accounting

Breuer, Wolfgang; Hofmann, Christian - In: Journal of Business Economics 95 (2025) 2, pp. 187-196

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Does the CAPM drive misvaluations in M&As?

Hark, Paul F.; Schneider, Christoph - In: Journal of Business Economics 95 (2025) 2, pp. 427-463

This paper confirms the positive empirical relationship between CAPM-implied target asset betas and bidder announcement returns originally documented by Dessaint et al. (Rev Financ Stud 34(1):1–66, 2021) for U.S. takeover bids. We successfully replicate the main regression results...

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Beyond resource use: XGBoost reveals unexpected drivers of corporate CO2 emissions

Clément, Alexandre; Robinot, Élisabeth; Trespeuch, Léo - In: Contemporary Economics 19 (2025) 2, pp. 163-185

reveal an interesting relationship between ESG information and CO2 emissions in business. For managers, they confirm … assumptions about CO2 emissions and provide new insights into business emissions. This study found that energy, water, and … workforce was found to interact with a business's CO2 emissions in most tests, whereas corporate philanthropy showed a weaker …

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