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Mergers, investment decisions and internal organisation

Banal-Estañol, Albert; Macho-Stadler, Inés; … - 2003

We analyse the effects of investment decisions and firms internal organisation on the efficiency and stability of …. We show that often stable mergers do not lead to more e.ciency and may even lead to efficiency losses. These mergers lead … to lower total welfare, suggesting that a regulator should be careful in assuming that possible efficiency gains of a …

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Fighting for talent : risk-shifting, corporate volatility, and organizational change

Friebel, Guido; Giannetti, Mariassunta - 2002

In the nineties, average firm size decreased, organisations decentralized, and workers preferences shifted from large to small firms. Our model identifies the economic forces behind this trend. Small firms with little capital at risk are subject to risk-shifting. They realize more of their...

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Organizational barriers to transforming large finance corporations : cloud adoption and the importance of technological architecture

Cao, Sam (Ruiqing); Iansiti, Marco - 2022 - Original version: December 2022, this version: February 2023

This paper studies the impact of technological architecture around data storage and processing on the performance of large financial corporations after being exposed to more stringent data privacy regulations. A modular approach to cloud adoption - which reflects in the lack of data...

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Taxation, industry integration and production efficiency

Moriconi, Simone - 2016

economies. Theories of optimal taxation conclude that these taxes are detrimental to production efficiency, when firms operate … production units. The present paper investigates the effects of taxation on production efficiency, accounting for the … effect of this "tax induced organizational change" on production efficiency ultimately depends on the characteristics of the …

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On the preferred creditor status of multilateral development banks

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2023

The loans of the IMF, World Bank, and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) are excluded from debt restructuring …

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Efficiency of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide : an empirical DEA investigation ased on institutional publication numbers and estimated academic staff numbe...

Bornmann, Lutz; Gralka, Sabine Marlene; Moya Anegón, … - 2020

the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data …. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide … America or Europe. The results of the study show that institutions in the Pacific region have the highest average efficiency …

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The role of government in anti-social redistributive activities

Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos (contributor); … - 2005

government share in GDP; and as a measure of government efficiency, we construct an index by following the methodology of Afonso … efficiency. Specifically, while a larger size of government is bad for incentives when one ignores efficiency, the results change … drastically when government efficiency is also taken into account. Only when our measure of size exceeds our measure of efficiency …

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Banking permits : economic efficiency and distributional effects

Bosetti, Valentina (contributor); Carraro, Carlo (contributor) - 2008

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Migration and cultural change

Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2020

which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on the sign and direction of convergence. We then use the World Value …

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NGO's and donors' funding : evidence from Uganda

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Isopi, Alessia; Owens, Trudy - 2022

shows that when donors care about efficiency, they screen NGOs and concentrate their funding on those that comply. Combining … efficiency selectivity criteria but focus on the geographic location of the NGO and the manager's network. International donors …, instead, follow efficiency proxies of both the NGO and the manager, including the manager's level of education, the …

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