Reflecting investor expectations, most prior corporate governance research attempts to find a relationship between boards of directors and firm performance. This paper critically examines the premise on which this research ...
Using survey data for 220 traditional manufacturing firms over 7 years of transition and 4 CEE countries, we find firms that produced for the EU market under planning consistently outperform those that produced for the ...
Using survey data for 220 traditional manufacturing firms over 7 years of transition and 4 Central Eastern Europe (CEE) countries, we find firms that produced for the EU market under planning
consistently outperform those ...
In this paper we test the effects of ownership, competition and disorganisation on firm level employment dynamics using a unique data set of 150 Russian and 300 Ukrainian firms. Our results, in contrast to findings in ...
We use rich brand level retail data to demonstrate that the firm size distribution in Carbonated Soft Drinks is mainly an outcome of the degree to which firms own a portfolio of brands across segments of the market, and ...
We explicitly model the vertical spillovers that result from imperfections in both labour and product markets. We model the vertical spillovers from wage determination in an upstream labour market to market share performance ...
Applied Industrial Economics has suffered from the criticism that most of the variables of interest, such as market structure and firm performance are inherently endogenous. We outline the three common approaches to the ...
As wind is a low capacity factor source of power generation, a non-physically-firm connection strategy is key to its cost-effective and timely integration to presently constrained transmission networks. This paper therefore ...
Despite the fact that environmental taxes and Environmental Tax Reform (ETR) are accepted to be policies with desirable environmental and other economic effects, their implementation has been patchy. The most common ...
In this paper we investigate the application of Tree-Adjunct Grammars to Grammatical Evolution. The standard type of grammar used by grammatical evolution, context-free grammars, produce a subset of the languages that ...