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This paper examines the determinants of mergers and bankruptcies, using firm level data from the Swiss Business Census and the Dun & Bradstreet exit database for Switzerland (1995-2000). Employing duration analysis, we find considerable differences in the determinants of mergers and...
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Innovative startups are frequently acquired by large incumbent firms. On the one hand, these acquisitions provide an incentive for startup creation and may transfer ideas to more efficient users. On the other hand, incumbents might acquire startups just to "kill" their ideas, and acquisitions...
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Interventions designed to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are popular among policy makers, given the role SMEs play in job creation around the world. Business support interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are often based on the assumption that market failures and...
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Recent studies have shown that developing countries might have significantly better export performance if they were …
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This paper explores the opportunities for integrating Initiative Based Learning (IBL) and Integrated Assessment Models … (IAMs) in order to improve our understanding of learning in the context of societal transition pathways, and more … learning in a very different way, and the two approaches have major structural differences with respect to the geographical as …
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from eighteen Latin American countries and Önds that individual-level trust is relevant to three types of performance … between trust and constraints on performance is scarce. This paper analyzes self-collected data on public sector employees …
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