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Managerial job assignment and imperfect competition in asymmetric equilibrium

Grossmann, Volker - 2003

This paper develops a model with multiple market locations in which the quality of intangible assets of firms, provided by management, determines the firms. performance. Despite an ex ante symmetry of potential entrants, the equilibrium assignment of heterogeneous managerial skills to firms...

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Firm size and diversification : asymmetric multiproduct firms under Cournot competition

Grossmann, Volker - 2003

A positive relationship between firm size and product diversification is a long-standing stylized fact. However, so far there is no appropriate theoretical model to explain the underlying forces of this observation. This paper analyzes an oligopoly model with asymmetric multiproduct frms, which...

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Selling reputation when going out of business : presented at CEFifo Area Conference on Industrial Organisation, March 2004

Hakenes, Hendrik; Peitz, Martin - CESifo Area Conference on Industrial Organisation … - 2004

Is the reputation of a firm tradeable when the previous owner has to retire even though ownership change is observable? We consider a competitive market in which a share of owners must retire in each period. New owners, observing only recent profits, bid for the firms on sale. Customers are...

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Vertical foreign direct investment : make, sell and (not) buy

Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Sandonís, Joel - 2016

According to conventional wisdom, multinational firms undertake vertical FDI in order to take advantage of cross-border factor cost differences and source the inputs from abroad at better terms. Recent empirical findings though document that this is not always the case. We provide theoretical...

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Asymmetries in global value chain integration, technology and employment structures in Europe : country and sectoral evidence

Bontadini, Filippo; Evangelista, Rinaldo; Meliciani, … - 2021

This paper provides empirical evidence on the complex role played by technology in affecting the relationship between the participation of EU countries and industries in Global Value Chains (GVCs) and their employment structure over the period 2000-2014. The empirical analysis is based on...

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Temporary super depreciation allowances for green and digital investments

Funke, Michael; Terasa, Raphael - 2022

As an incentive to increase high-impact investment and boost growth, the German Federal Government is planning to introduce a targeted temporary super depreciation allowance to support much-needed green and digital transitions. Using a calibrated multi-sector DSGE model, we find that the...

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Aligning profit taxation with value creation

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2019

The OECD seeks to align transfer pricing and profit taxation with value creation but fails to provide a clear definition. This paper argues that value creation requires international cooperation and that the profit tax base should therefore be allocated according to standards commonly considered...

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The adoption of non-rival inputs and firm scope

Jiang, Xian; Rubinton, Hannah - 2024

Custom software is distinct from other types of capital in that it is non-rival—once a firm makes an investment in custom software, it can be used simultaneously across its many establishments. Using confidential US Census data, we document that while firms with more establishments are more...

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Disclosure deregulation of quarterly reporting

Behrmann, Vanessa; Hornuf, Lars; Zimmermann, Jochen - 2021 - This version: October 5, 2021

Directive into German law and analyze whether a reduction in the minimum content requirements for quarterly reporting increases …, our results reveal that over the period from 2012 to 2019, lower quarterly reporting levels on average have increased … coverage. Our results are robust to potential selection effects regarding firms’ choice of quarterly reporting content levels. …

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Measuring social preferences in developing economies

Bartoš, Vojtěch; Leveley, Ian - 2023

For the past two decades, studies measuring social preferences in developing settings have played an important role in building our understanding of economic development and poverty. This book chapter reviews lab-in-the-field experiments that measure social preferences, summarizes categories of...

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