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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Firm Exit"”.
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Two Essays on Financial Condition of Firms
… chapters that analyze financial condition of firms. In the first chapter, I examine the relationship between the firms' level of cash holdings and governance. The findings show that higher levels of cash holdings are significantly related to strong governance. The results also show that firms …
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Essays on the effects of market regulation
… the effects of price regulation on the entry, exit and pricing decision of firms. I concentrate on the retail gasoline industry in Argentina. I study how the price regulation in place from 2004 to 2007 has affected the number of gas stations in the market and the price level after the …
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Essays in financial economics
… contracting between risk-averse investors and firm insiders in a dynamic general-equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms. The equilibrium optimal contract features a higher rate of inefficient liquidations in aggregate states with low productivity and a reward-for-luck policy in high …
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Using administrative data to gain insights into microdrivers of productivity
… We describe how we measure productivity, define firm participation in business networks and handle missing data for this research. Missing data is a common problem in data analysis, but the problem is exacerbated when we analyse an integrated administrative dataset. We need to address this …
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Using administrative data to gain insights into microdrivers of productivity
… We describe how we measure productivity, define firm participation in business networks and handle missing data for this research. Missing data is a common problem in data analysis, but the problem is exacerbated when we analyse an integrated administrative dataset. We need to address this …
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Essays in oil, conflict, and the development of resource-rich countries
… policies on the political behavior of U.S. firms. Between 1991 and 2003, Saudi Aramco sold its crude to U.S. refineries at a substantial discount relative to Asian refineries at a total cost of approximately 8.5 billion dollars. Using variation in discount receipts across refineries over …
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Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics and Development
… diverse (one might say that small manufacturing firms in Indonesia and massive bank holding companies in the United States are half a world apart), they are tied together by the use of micro data and econometrics to study macro questions with important aggregate implications. These papers reflect …