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The effects of size on local banks' funding costs

Vins, Oliver; Bloch, Thomas - 2008

Motivated by the recent discussion of the declining importance of deposits as banks' major source of funding we investigate which factors determine funding costs at local banks. Using a panel data set of more than 800 German local savings and cooperative banks for the period from 1998 to 2004 we...

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Dissynergies of mergers among local banks

Bloch, Thomas - 2008

banks have a substantial and persistent negative impact on merging banks' revenues. We refer to merger related negative … customers and the temporary distraction of management from day-to-day operations by effecting the merger. For our analyses we … involved in 212 mergers between 1994 and 2006. We find that the negative impact of a merger on net operating revenues amounts …

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Mergers and acquisitions - the standing of theory in the quest for better institutions and policy

Jensen, Camilla - 2010

The paper shows that the standing of theory in the field of mergers and acquisitions is weak for at least three reasons. Research is best described as a battlefield of ad hoc theory testing leaving behind a fragmented field. Research has focused traditionally on high intensity markets under the...

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Private Equity and Employees

Olsson, Martin; Tåg, Joacim - 2012

Using linked employer-employee data from Sweden, a difference-in-difference approach, and 201 private equity buyouts undertaken between 1998 and 2004, we show that unemployment risk declines and labor income increases for employees in the wake of a private equity buyout. Unemployment risk...

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A primer on governance and performance in small and medium-sized enterprises

Yacuzzi, Enrique - 2005

This paper is a primer on corporate performance, corporate governance, and their interrelationships and measurement systems, with particular focus on Small and Medium- Sized Enterprises (SMEs). This is the first report of a larger on going research project. In the domain of performance...

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Plundered or profitably pumped-up? The effects of private equity takeover

Kärnä, Anders; Myers, Samantha - 2024

We study the effects on firms that are acquired by private equity firms in a leveraged buyout, using detailed Swedish registry data covering 1998-2022. Acquired firms see a large increase in their debt and debt related variables, but no significant change in productivity. This suggests that, on...

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The impact of product market competition on firm performance through the mediating of corporate governance index: empirical of listed companies in Vietnam

Ha, Thach Xuan; Tran, Thu Thi - In: Cogent Business & Management 9 (2022) 1, pp. 1-19

Over the past decade, Vietnam has opened the market and attended in large economic organization like ASEAN Free Trade Area, ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. Therefore, the...

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Profits may lead teams to lose matches, but scoring goals does not lead to profit

Sánchez, Luis Carlos; Barajas, Angel; … - In: European Research on Management and Business Economics … 26 (2020) 1, pp. 26-32

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between profitability and sporting performance in European football. Profitability has been rarely studied because it has not been considered an aim of European clubs, in contrast with American clubs. However, the emergence of investors...

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Female-Led Firms: Performance and Risk Attitudes

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Smith, Nina - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between gender of the CEO and composition of the board of directors (female chairman and share of women in the boardroom) and firm's risk attitudes measured as variability in four firm outcome variables (investments, profits, return to equity, and sales)....

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Gender quotas on boards of directors

Smith, Nina - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Arguments for increasing gender diversity on boards of directors range from ensuring equal opportunity to improving firm performance, but the empirical results are mixed and often negative. Current research does not justify gender quotas on grounds of economic efficiency. Furthermore, in most...

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