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Drivers of Discretionary Firm Donations in Brazil [PDF]
BAR: Brazilian Administration Review, 2008 Discretionary firm donation is usually related to the stakeholder theory and corporate social performance. Although theoretical explanations for this social behavior are pervasive in related literature, empirical modeling remains underdeveloped.
Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello +2 more
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Distance costs and Multinationals' foreign activities [PDF]
We derive a gravity equation from two general equilibrium models with multinational firms: a symmetric firm model where foreign affiliates rely on specific intermediate goods and a heterogenous firms model with country-specific fixed costs.
Kleinert, Jörn, Toubal, Farid
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Firm-Specific Productivity Risk over the Business Cycle: Facts and Aggregate Implications [PDF]
Is time-varying firm-level uncertainty a major cause or amplifier of the business cycle? This paper investigates this question in the context of a heterogeneous-firm RBC model with persistent firm-level productivity shocks and lumpy capital adjustment ...
Christian Bayer, Ruediger Bachmann
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The minimum wage in the dominant firm model [PDF]
"This paper examines the impact of minimum wage in a dominant firm model. It is shown that in a labor-intensive market, the introduction of a binding minimum wage creates an entry barrier in the short run and increases unemployment in the long run ...
Shilov, Andrey, Tourovsky, Boris
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A multistate demographic model for firms in the province of Gelderland [PDF]
In the last two decades researchers from various disciplines have made attempts to model and estimate developments in the size and structure of the population of firms.
Corina Huisman, Leo Van Wissen
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The Potential of Servicizing as a Green Business Model [PDF]
, 2015 It has been argued that servicizing business models, under which a firm sells the use of a product rather than the product itself, are environmentally beneficial.
Ioannis Bellos, Vishal V. Agrawal
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Pensions, The Option Value of Work, and Retirement [PDF]
The paper develops a model of retirement based on the option value of continuing to work. Continuing to work maintains the option of retiring on more advantageous terms later.
David A. Wise, James H. Stock
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Lifetime Employment and a Sequential Choice in a Mixed Duopoly Market with a Joint-Stock Firm [PDF]
International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics, 2016 This paper examines a three-stage game model in which a joint-stock private firm and a state-owned public firm can sequentially offer lifetime employment before competing in quantities. The game runs as follows.
Kazuhiro Ohnishi
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Business cycle evidence on firm entry [PDF]
Business cycle models with sticky prices and endegenous firm entry make novel predictions on the transmission of shocks through the extensive margin of investment.
Lewis, Vivien
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Job durations with worker and firm specific effects: MCMC estimation with longitudinal employer-employee data [PDF]
We study job durations using a multivariate hazard model allowing for workerspecific and firm-specific unobserved determinants. The latter are captured by unobserved heterogeneity terms or random effects, one at the firm level and another at the worker ...
Horny, Guillaume +2 more
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