This paper investigates whether product market power affects trade credit decisions. We exploit the 2007–08 credit crisis in the U.S. as a source of variation in the importance of product market power for trade credit. We ...

We investigate the effect of female leadership on gender differences in public and private organizations. Female leadership was constructed using a quasi-experiment involving mayoral elections, and our research used a ...

While there is abundant research on how to formulate strategies and several models of strategic positioning have been advanced, there is still scant academic research about how to conceptualize and measure strategy execution. ...

The multidimensional dynamics between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and financial performance represents a huge methodological challenge for theoretical consolidation on the theme. This paper is grounded on Resource ...

The goal of the paper is to develop a specific application of the convex optimization based hypothesis testing techniques developed in A. Juditsky, A. Nemirovski, “Hypothesis testing via affine detectors,” Electronic Journal ...

In this paper we consider second order optimality conditions for a bilinear optimal control problem governed by a strongly continuous semigroup operator, the control entering linearly in the cost function. We derive first ...

We estimate the net fiscal benefit (NFB) and the fiscal effect of unconditional grants on wages for twenty-six Brazilian states in the period 2005 to 2009. In particular, we explore the analytical framework proposed in ...

The interactions between conflict and local development has puzzled scholars and practitioners alike. This article explores why the advent of peace in Colombia's emerald-mining regions for the past few years, as well as a ...

Founded in 2011, Le Chef Gatô has become a commercial hit through its fine sweets and chocolates. Since then, the company has been keeping a consistent growth trajectory, and starts to pave the road for a new expansion ...

With the opening of the Brazilian market for the installation of foreign multinationals, Totvs, a small company that distributes, nationalizes and markets foreign software in Brazil, started to compete with large international ...