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Lucratividade e qualidade na distribuição de energia elétrica
Nova Economia, 2009 Privatization of electricity distribution in Brazil had, as one of its stated purposes, generation of sufficient revenue to guarantee service quality and full market coverage.
André Ghirardi +2 more
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Skill gaps in the EU: role for education and training policies [PDF]
Skill gaps are widely seen as a problem that lowers aggregate productivity growth. A question for the European Commission is whether and how governments should take action with education and training policies to reduce skill gaps and make Europe the best
Bert Minne +2 more
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Unlocking female CEOs' contribution to the internationalization of family‐controlled firms
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract Are female CEOs better or worse than male CEOs for the internationalization of family‐controlled firms? By addressing this question, we draw on Upper Echelons Theory (UET) and complement it with insights from the Behavioral Theory of the Firm (BTF) to examine the moderating role of governance and ownership openness. Using a large panel of 2150
Alfredo D'Angelo +3 more
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The Macroeconomics of TANSTAAFL [PDF]
This paper shows that dynamic inefficiency can occur in dynamic general equilibrium models with fully optimizing, infinitely-lived households even in a situation with underinvestment. We identify necessary conditions for such a possibility and illustrate
Thomas Steger +2 more
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Life Cycle Consumption and Portfolio Choice Under Real Interest Rate Risk
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We set up a life cycle model with real interest rate risk to demonstrate that real interest rates have implications for optimal household consumption and investments. Lower interest rates lead to higher optimal stock investments and lower consumption.
Marcel Fischer, Natascha Jankowski
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Local corruption and corporate investment in an emerging market
Asia and the Global EconomyThis paper examines how local corruption determines corporate investment in Vietnam where local corruption is more relevant to firms’ business activities than central corruption.
Thi Mai Nguyen +2 more
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Electronic coordination in oligopolistic markets: Impact on transport costs and product differentiation [PDF]
Electronic coordination links markets at different locations that have initially been (partially) separated by transport costs. Rising competitive pressure should in turn affect incentives to differentiate products.
Bandulet, Martin, Morasch, Karl
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Flexible Contract, Flexible Morale? Microcredit Design and Repayment Discipline
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Flexible repayment benefits borrowers, but practitioners fear increased moral hazard. Investigating their concerns requires disentangling repayment choices from repayment capacity, which is typically infeasible in field studies. We use a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment with 645 microcredit borrowers to cleanly identify the effect of repayment ...
Kristina Czura, Anett John, Lisa Spantig
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Firm Digital Transformation and Investment Efficiency: Evidence From China
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and SocietyIn the digital economy, how to capitalize on digital transformation to improve the efficiency of long-term capital allocation is an important issue facing the current high-quality growth of China’s economy.
Maoguo Wu, Tianxiao Zhu
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On the debt Capacityof growth Options [PDF]
If debt capacity is defined as the incremental debt that is optimally associated with an additional asset, then the debt capacity of growth options is negative.
Clifford W. Smith +2 more
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