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More Competition, Better Products: Evidence From Tariff Cuts

Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how increased competition affects product and process innovation. I combine plausibly exogenous variation in foreign competition induced by large tariff cuts with a difference‐in‐differences strategy and find that firms increase their product patenting in response to increased foreign competition, but, on average, foreign
Colin Davison
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Ethnic Concentration, Cultural Identity and Immigrant Self-Employment in Switzerland [PDF]

Immigrant self-employment rates vary considerably across regions in Switzerland. Business ownership seems to provide an alternative to wage labour, where immigrants have to face structural barriers such as the limited knowledge of the local language, or ...
Giuliano Guerra, Rico Maggi, Roberto Patuelli   +2 more
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Demand Shocks, Export Diversification, and Firm Performance During the Great Trade Collapse

Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the impact of external demand shocks from the 2008 to 2009 Great Trade Collapse on the performance of Chinese exporters and examines how export diversification mitigates these effects. Using Chinese Customs data merged with financial data from all listed Chinese firms, we construct firm‐specific demand shocks based on pre ...
Qianlin Hong, Zeyang Jin, Runjuan Liu, Jiadong Tong   +3 more
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Import competition and stock price crash risk

Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigate how globalization‐induced import competition affects stock price crash risk. Import competition increases price pressure and reduces profit margins, prompting managers to withhold negative information, resulting in higher crash risk. Based on a sample of US manufacturing firms from 1974 to 2019, we find that firms whose products
Mansoor Afzali, Gonul Colak, Khalela Francis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

landusemix: A Python package for calculating land use mix

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Integrating different land uses within a geographic area is essential to urban planning and development. Accurate and fast land use mix (LUM) measurement is necessary for evaluating urban diversity and sustainability. In this paper, we present landusemix,
Mehmet Ali Akyol, Sebnem Duzgun, Nazife Baykal   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

When Different Market Concentration Indices Agree [PDF]

Market concentration ratios are popular statistics for characterizing the extent of market dominance in an imperfectly competitive market, but these ratios may not agree when comparing two markets.
Hennessy, David A., Lapan, Harvey E.
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Are CSR incidents truly bad news?

Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We revisit whether disclosures of negative Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) incidents adversely affect firms' stock prices. While univariate tests reveal significant negative abnormal returns around incident announcements, the effect disappears once firm characteristics, industry, and time‐fixed effects are controlled for.
Chen Chen, John A. Doukas, Rongyao Gloria Zhang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stability in individual daily activity-travel-location patterns: A study using the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index

, 2007
Arbeitsberichte Verkehrs- und Raumplanung ...
Susilo, Yusak O., Axhausen, Kay W.
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Hampered Monetary Policy Transmission ‐ A Supply‐Side Story?

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper shows that the supply side of credit is a major factor for hampered monetary policy transmission in monopolistic banking markets. Our stress test data containing projected interest rates of all 1,555 small and medium‐sized banks in Germany under two hypothetical scenarios provide a clear way to partial out demand shocks that are ...
LOTTA HECKMANN‐DRAISBACH, JULIA HARDT
wiley   +1 more source

Scope of Electricity Efficiency Improvement in Switzerland until 2035 [PDF]

This study uses Markowitz mean-variance portfolio theory with forecasted data for the years 2005 to 2035 to determine efficient electricity generating technology mixes for Switzerland.
Boris Krey
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