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Ownership Structure of the Firm as a Predictor of Intra-Industry Variation in Partisan Preferences
Clark Muntean, Susan - 2009
Most scholars assume firms are politically unified - at least at the industry level. Yet recent contributions data … reveal considerable variation in political preferences exhibited among firms in the same industry. This paper investigates … what drives this intra-industry variation in partisan preferences by analyzing contributions of firms in fourteen diverse …
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Why do manufacturing firms produce services? : evidence for the servitization paradox in Belgium
Blanchard, Pierre; Fuss, Catherine; Mathieu, Claude - 2017
The increasing role of services in GDP results from the growing share of service industries, but also from the fact that firms produce services along with goods. This paper investigates the determinants of service provision by manufacturing firms. First, it develops a model of differentiated...
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Optimal Price Adjustment : Tests of a Price Equations in U.S. Manufacturing
Von zur Mühlen, Peter - 2022
This paper presents an equation of the dynamic path of prices in a monopolistically competitive market in which firms sell to both old and new customers. Both types are able to search for the lowest price, given search costs, where the expected number of searches is given by the inverse of the...
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R&D Spillovers and Firms’ Performance in Italy : Evidence from a Flexible Production Function
Francesco, Aiello; Cardamone, Paola - 2012
Using a translog production function we estimate the impact of R&D spillovers on the output performance of Italian manufacturing firms over the period 1998-2003. Technological flows are measured through an asymmetric similarity index that takes also into account the geographical proximity of...
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On the production of victory : empirical determinants of battlefield success in modern war
Rotte, Ralph; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002
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Does Work Time Flexibility Work? An Empirical Assessment of the Efficiency Effects for German Firms
Wolf, Elke; Beblo, Miriam - 2014
In this paper, we assess the impact of flexible work time schedules on firm efficiency using representative establishment data for Germany. Following the approach by Battese and Coelli (1995), we estimate a stochastic production frontier and the determinants of technical efficiency...
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The Business Environment in the Transition
Carlin, Wendy - 2012
Following the collapse of planning, new small and medium-sized firms rapidly emerged in all transition economies. Using firm level data, we investigate the interaction between the widespread opportunities for new business activities such firms faced and their business environment. The business...
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The business environment in the transition
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2012
Following the collapse of planning, new small and medium-sized firms rapidly emerged in all transition economies. Using firm level data, we investigate the interaction between the widespread opportunities for new business activities such firms faced and their business environment. The business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621717
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On the production of victory : empirical determinants of battlefield success in modern war
Rotte, Ralph; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002
Using a data set of historical battles from 1600 to 1973, this paper analyzes the empirical determinants of tactical success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we consider key elements of military theory as factors in the production of combat success, formalized in a military...
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Rationality and Cooperation between Firms. Testing Habitual Behavior in Greek Industries
Zouboulakis, Michel; Kamarianos, John - 2005
The aim of this empirical research was to test the influence of some social factors such as social norms, habits and routines, which are actually constraining the entrepreneurial strategy. In order to measure the extent of these influences we have focused on informal arrangements and cooperation...
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