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Complementarity, Capabilities, And The Boundaries Of The Firm: The Impact Of Within-Firm And Interfirm Expertise On Concurrent Sourcing Of Complementary Components
February 19, 2009 12:00am PST
Theories of the firm raise conflicting arguments about how complementarities between two or more components affect firms' knowledge and production boundaries. Traditional arguments in the...
Provided by: Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Financial Constraints To The Investment Of Chinese Listed Firms Across Firm Characteristics
December 1, 2008 12:00am PST
This paper uses a panel of 815 Chinese listed firms from the period of 1998 to 2004 to study how the investment cash flow sensitivity differs across firms with and without state ownership, and...
Provided by: University of Nottingham
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Multi-Product Firms And Trade Liberalization
December 1, 2006 12:00am PST
This paper develops a general equilibrium model of multi-product firms and analyzes their behavior during trade liberalization. Firm productivity in a given product is modeled as a combination of...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Intra-Firm Rent Seeking And Optimal Incentives In Firms
January 19, 2007 12:00am PST
This paper studies how intra-firm rent seeking affects optimal incentives in firms. An incentive-based wage schedule may generate rent seeking within the firm when contracts are incomplete, or...
Provided by: Leibniz Computing Centre
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Enforcement Of Regulation, Informal Labor, Firm Size, And Firm Performance
June 13, 2006 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal labor, firm size and firm performance. Using firm level data on employment, capita, and output,...
Provided by: University College London
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Job Creation And The Intra-Distribution Dynamics Of The Firm Size Distribution
May 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
Based on a structural model for initial firm size, survival and firm growth the authors estimate firm-specific transition probabilities between size classes of the firm size distribution. This...
Provided by: Austrian Institute of Economic Research
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Why Firms Smooth Dividends: Empirical Evidence
October 26, 2008 12:00am PDT
While dividend smoothing is taken as an article of faith, little is known about the cross-sectional properties of smoothing policies. Why do some firms smooth more than others? The authors examine...
Provided by: Cornell University
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What Makes A High-Growth Firm? A Probit Analysis Using Spanish Firm-level Data
September 8, 2009 12:00am PDT
Many studies have established that a small number of firms, known as fast-growth firms or Gazelles, create most of the new jobs. In spite of the importance of this topic from a policy-point of...
Provided by: Banco de España
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Explaining Firm Willingness To Forfeit Tax Deductions Under Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m): The Million-Dollar Cap
August 26, 2010 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors examine firm responses to Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m). In particular they examine firms' willingness to forfeit tax deductions, as well as the effect of Section...
Provided by: Rutgers, State University of New Jersey
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Differences In Governance Practices Between U.S. And Foreign Firms: Measurement, Causes, And Consequences
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
Using an index which increases as a firm adopts more governance attributes, the authors find that 12.7% of foreign firms have a higher index than matching U.S. firms. The best predictor for...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Are Innovating Firms Victims Or Perpetrators? Tax Evasion, Bribe Payments, And The Role Of External Finance In Developing Countries
July 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates corruption and tax evasion and their firm-level determinants across 25,000 firms in 57 countries, a large fraction of which are small and medium enterprises in developing...
Provided by: The World Bank
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The Impact Of Private Equity Ownership On Portfolio Firms' Corporate Tax Planning
May 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates whether private equity (PE) firms influence the tax practices of their portfolio firms. Prior research documents that PE firms create economic value in portfolio firms...
Provided by: London Business School
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The Impact Of Private Equity Ownership On Portfolio Firms? Corporate Tax Planning
March 4, 2010 12:00am PST
This paper investigates whether private equity (PE) firms influence the tax practices of their portfolio firms. Prior research documents that PE firms create economic value in portfolio firms...
Provided by: Harvard University
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Post-IPO Firm Valuation And Corporate Governance Of Politically Connected Firms In Singapore
December 3, 2007 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors explore the relationship between political connection and firm value of newly listed companies in Singapore from 1997-2002. Using Tobin's Q as a proxy for firm value,...
Provided by: Florida State University
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Financial Reliability And Firms' Export Activity
July 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors assess the importance of internal financial resources related to the sunken entry costs, which characterize a firm's export activity. They propose a new methodology to...
Provided by: Lessius
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Productivity Spillovers And The Entry Of Foreign-Owned Firms: The Case Of Japanese Manufacturing Firms
November 1, 2006 12:00am PST
This paper shows that in the short run an increase in foreign firms' industry share lowers the TFP (Total Factor Productivity) growth of Japanese firms as a result of the decrease in market power....
Provided by: Hitotsubashi University
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The Relationship Between Bankruptcy Risk And Growth For Non-Listed Firms
December 1, 2010 12:00am PST
The authors investigate the relationship between bankruptcy risks and expected future sales growth for Norwegian non-listed firms for the period 1988-2007. They find that firms with high...
Provided by: Norges Bank
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Why Do Firms Evade Taxes? The Role Of Information Sharing And Financial Sector Outreach
August 28, 2010 12:00am PDT
Informality is a wide-spread phenomenon across the globe. The authors show that firms in countries with better information sharing systems and greater financial sector outreach evade taxes to a...
Provided by: Tilburg University
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Sector Switching: An Unexplored Dimension Of Firm Dynamics In Developing Countries
September 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
Much of the literature on industry evolution has found firm dynamics to be an important source of sector-level productivity growth. In this paper, the authors ask whether the delineation of entry...
Provided by: Trinity College Dublin
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Firm Performance Characteristics And Gender Ownership In A Globalised Economy
January 1, 2007 12:00am PST
This paper extends existing research on firm heterogeneity by exploring whether differences in firm performance characteristics may in part be related to the gender of the proprietor of the firm....
Provided by: Trinity College Dublin
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