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Can Faith Move Mountains? The impact of entrepreneurial ambition on the success of new ventures
(2017)Our paper addresses individual abilities and motivational factors of entrepreneurs by investigating whether and how variations in the ambition to become an entrepreneur may impact subsequent entrepreneurial success. Utilizing ... -
Composite likelihood inference for spatio-temporal data on multicolor cell growth
(2016)Multicolor cell spatio-temporal image data have become important to investigateorgan regeneration, malignant outgrowth or immune responses by tracking differentcell types both in vivo and in vitro. Statistical modeling of ... -
Human Resource Management Decision Making Under the Spell of Favoritism: Conceptual Foundations and Empirical Evidence
(2017)Favoritism and its more specific forms, such as nepotism or cronyism, are some of the least-studied issues within the leadership and human resource management (HRM) literature despite its practical relevance and its ethical ... -
Sportentwicklung Südtirol 2025: GemeinSCHAFFT BewegungsRAUM!
(2018)Sportentwicklung Südtirol 2025 Project brochure - endreport -
Unemployment and debt dynamics in a highly indebted small open economy
(2011)The paper analyzes the dynamic effects of a total factor productivity shock and an interest rate risk premium shock in a highly indebted open economy. In contrast to the standard open economy framework, search unemployment ... -
Ranking genetic factors related to age-related maculardegeneration by variable selection confidence sets
(2015)The widespread use of generalized linear models in case-control genetic studies has helped identify many disease-associated risk factors typically defined as DNA variants, or single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Up to ... -
Quasi-ML estimation, Marginal Effects and Asymptotics for Spatial Autoregressive Nonlinear Models
(2017)In this paper we propose a Partial-MLE for a general spatial nonlinear probit model, i.e. SARAR(1,1)-probit, de fined through a SARAR(1,1) latent linear model. This model encompasses the SAE(1)-probit model, considered by ... -
A Clustering Approach and a Rule of Thumb for Risk Aggregation
(2017)The problem of establishing reliable estimates or bounds for the (T)VaR of a joint risk portfolio is a relevant subject in connection with the computation of total economic capital in the Basel regulatory framework for the ... -
Opportunism in disclosing pro-forma indicators: rationale and contextual drivers
(2017)The paper examines the impact of the institutional context and the regulation on the disclosure of non-GAAP indicators (NGIs), with a focus on the adoption of NGIs for opportunistic purposes. We firstly discuss the concept ... -
Divestitures and the financial conglomerate excess value
(2017)We exploit a unique sample of the world largest financial conglomerates from 15 countries and we track their largest asset sales over the period 2005-2013, which encompasses the two last financial crises (US subprime ... -
How cultural and contextual variables affect the disclosure and transparency of pro-forma indicators
(2017)The paper analyses how company-specific financial factors and country-specific institutional and cultural factors affect the extent to which companies disclose Non-GAAP Financial Measures (NGFMs) in their financial ... -
How often to a museum? Motivations matter
(2014)Some recent contributions to the literature on cultural participation have highlighted the presence of previously disregarded motivations and the necessity of a refinement of the measure of cultural capital used in empirical ... -
If Life Throws You Lemons Try To Make Lemonade: Does Locus of Control Help People Cope with Unexpected Shocks
(2017)A number of recent papers have found that non-cognitive skills and in particular, locus of control (LoC), are important predictors of success in life in terms of both traditional labor market and socioeconomic outcomes, ... -
Can Immigrants Insure against Shocks as well as the Native-born?
(2017)The impact that an unforeseen event has on household welfare depends on the extent to which household members can take actions to mitigate the direct impact of the shock. In this paper, we use nine years of longitudinal ... -
An investigation on tourism farms in South Tyrol
(2016)This study is based on data collected at a sample of agritourism located in South Tyrol (Italy). Though a probabilistic modelling, based on a cluster and a PCA it is possible to investigate the determinants that influence ... -
Price Formation of Pledgeable Securities
(2015)Extant literature on the pricing of pledgeable securities focuses on models of risk sharing. I derive the equilibrium price function in rational expectations when investors have heterogeneous information. That allows me ... -
European spin-offs Origin, value creation, and long-term performance
(2013)This paper tests the empirical validity of theoretical predictions on corporate spin-offs motivations and ex-post performance. Using a unique data set of completed spinoffs in twelve European countries we show that spin-off ... -
The Behaviour of Repeat Visitors to Museums: Review and Empirical Findings
(2013)This study presents a theoretical and operational framework for analysing repeat visit to museums. Starting from the literature on repeat visit in tourism, the specificities of these cultural attractions are made explicit ... -
Corporate Governance of SOEs and performance in transition countries. Evidence from Lithuania
(2016)This paper investigates whether and to what extent corporate governance mechanisms affect the efficiency of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) operating in transition economies. Furthermore, it examines the relationship between ...
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