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The interdependence of R&D activity and debt financing of young firms
Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - 2011
&D in young firms and, at the same time, a higher R&D intensity allows for a higher loan share. This relationship cannot be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286852
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The Interdependence of R&D Activity and Debt Financing of Young Firms
Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
&D in young firms and, at the same time, a higher R&D intensity allows for a higher loan share. This relationship cannot be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403382
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Impact of Financial Crises on Dynamics of Capital Structure: Evidence from Korean Listed Companies
Tsoy, Lyubov; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
This study examines the impact of 1997 Asian and 2008 Global financial crises on the capital structure of Korean listed companies. Using a data set covering 1,159 Korean listed non-financial firms from 10 industrial sectors over period 1985-2015, the pattern of firms' capital structure before...
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Employment protection: tough to scrap or tough to get?
Brügemann, Björn - 2006
Differences in employment protection across countries appear to be quite persistent over time. One mechanism that could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274060
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The impact of household capital income on income inequality: A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008
This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324272
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Who cares about stock market booms and busts? Evidence from data on mental health
Ratcliffe, Anita; Taylor, Karl - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between share prices and mental health, exploiting the availability of interview dates in the British Household Panel Survey to match the level and changes in the FTSE All Share price index to respondents over the period 1991-2008. We present evidence...
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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95
Koeniger, Winfried - 2001
Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk and car insurance using data from the UK. The main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262448
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A suggested method for the measurement of world leading research: (illustrated with data on economics)
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009
Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269637
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is therefore the next stage in the research program. At the same time, we … know from other fields that there are dangers in simply pooling all available time series, without regard to the specific … part of the paper tackles the challenge of comparability of income-tax based estimates across countries and across time …
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The impact of union dissolution on moving distances and destinations in the UK
Feijten, Peteke; van Ham, Maarten - 2011
The number of people who have ever experienced a divorce, or a split up of a non-marital union, is rising every year. It is well known that union dissolution has a disruptive effect on the housing careers of those involved, often leading to downward moves on the housing ladder. Much less is...
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