CRIEFF Discussion Papers

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1205: Extending Contingency: the impact of strategy, technology, size and business environment on the organisational form of small Chinese firms

Gavin Reid, Julia Smith and Zhibin Xu

1204: What's it worth to keep a secret? IP protection under the Economic Espionage Act

Gavin Reid and Nicola C Searle

1203: Firm size and trade secret intensity: evidence from the Economic Espionage Act

Nicola C Searle and Gavin Reid

1202: Saving and Re-building Lives: an Analysis of the Determinants of Disaster Relief

Geethanjali Selvaretnam, Kannika Thampanishvong and David Ulph

1201: Horizontal Agreements and R&D Complementarities: Merger versus RJV

Joanna Poyago-Theotoky and Ben Ferrett

1103: World Wine Exports: What Determined the Success of the ‘New World’ Wine Producers?

Osiris Parcero and Emiliano Villanueva

1101: On Measuring the Efficiency of Monetary Policy

Walter Briec, Emmanuelle Gabillon, Laurence Lasselle and Hermann Ratsimbanierana

1009: Using Effluent Charges in Promoting Investment in Water Pollution Control Technology: A Model of Coordination Failure among Firms

Geethanjali Selvaretnam and Kannika Thampanishvong

1008: R&D Subsidies, Spillovers and Privatization in Mixed Markets

Maria José Gil-Moltó, Joanna Poyago-Theotoky and Vasileios Zikos

1007: Optimal contracting with private information on cost expectation and variability

Daniel Danau and Annalisa Vinella

1006: Enhancing Interns’ Aspirations towards the Labour Market through Skill-Acquisition: The Second Chance Schools Experience

Fabio R. Arico' and Laurence Lasselle

1002: Moody choice

Paola Manzini and Marco Mariotti

1001: Financial Distress in Chinese Industry: Microeconomic, Macroeconomic and Institutional Influences

Arnab Bhattacharjee and Jie Han

0913: Growth and Survival Determinants of Chinese Private Firms: Fieldwork evidence and econometric estimates

Gavin Reid and Zhibin Xu

0911: Multi-agent contracting with countervailing incentives and limited liability

Daniel Danau and Annalisa Vinella

0910: Pricing and Hedging of Asian Options: Quasi-Explicit Solutions via Malliavin Calculus

Zhaojun Yang, Christian-Oliver Ewald and Olaf Menkens

0908: Avoidance Policies – A New Conceptual Framework

David Ulph

0907: Entrepreneurial Orientation, Intangible Assets and Firm Growth: the impact of ‘Spirit and Material’ on the growth of Chinese private firms

Gavin Reid and Zhibin Xu

0906: The Estimation of Technical Efficiency Effects Models with an Example Applied to the Thai Manufacturing Sector

Suwanee Arunsawadiwong and Gavin Reid

0905: Are Two Tax Rates Better Than One?

Felix R. FitzRoy and Jim Y. Jin

0903: The Age Effect in Entrepreneurship: Founder’s Tenure, Firm Performance, and the Economic Environment

Marco Cucculelli and Giacinto Micucci

0902: Social welfare versus inequality aversion in an incomplete contract experiment

Marco Faravelli, Oliver Kirchkamp and Helmut Rainer

0901: Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: The Case of Divorced Parents

Marco Francesconi, Helmut Rainer and Wilbert van der Klaauw

0811: Social Networks in Determining Migration and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the German Reunification

Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler

0810: Value Ambiguity and Gains from Acquisitions of Unlisted Targets

Leonidas Barbopoulos, Krishna Paudyal and Gioia Pescetto

0806: Why is it so Hard to Value Intangibles? Evidence from Investments in High-Technology Start-Ups

Gavin Reid and Julia Smith

0805: Financial centres in peripheral regions: the effect of the financial services industry on regional economy - the case of the Scottish Financial cluster

Mikel Larreina

0804: Firms in Scottish High Technology Clusters: software, life sciences, microelectronics, optoelectronics and digital media – preliminary evidence and analysis on firm size, growth and optimality

Gavin Reid and Vandana Ujjual

0803: On the Qualitative Effect of Volatility and Duration on Prices of Asian Options

Peter Carr, Christian-Oliver Ewald and Yajun Xiao

0802: The Important Thing Is not (Always) Winning but Taking Part: Funding Public Goods with Contests

Marco Faravelli

0716: Analysis into IPO Underpricing and Clustering in Hong Kong Equity Market

Yongyuan Qiao

0714: A Prize to Give for: An Experiment on Public Good Funding Mechanisms

Luca Corazzini, Marco Faravelli and Luca Stanca

0713: Option Pricing When the Regime-Switching Risk is Priced

Tak Kuen Siu, Hailiang Yang Unim and John W Lau

0711: The Equity Premium: 100 Years of Empirical Evidence from the UK

Andrew Vivian

0710: A closed-form solution to the continuous-time consumption model with endogenous labor income

Aihua Zhang

0709: The Effects of In-Work Benefit Reform in Britain on Couples: Theory and Evidence

Marco Francesconi, Helmut Rainer and Wilbert van der Klaauw

0706: Detecting a cluster in a region without complete statistical data, using Input-Output analysis: The case of the Rioja wine cluster

Mikel Larreina

0703: Banks, depositors and liquidity shocks: long term vs. short term interest rates in a model of adverse selection

Geethanjali Selvaretnam

0702: The Equity Premium: UK Industry Evidence

Andrew Vivian

0701: Practitioner Views on Financial Reporting for Smaller Entities

Gavin Reid and Julia Smith

0613: Competitiveness and Conjectural Variation in Duopoly Markets

Jim Jin and Osiris Parcero

0612: Explaining International Soccer Rankings

Peter Macmillan and Ian Smith

0610: The Hidden Surplus From Research Joint Ventures: An Application Of Systems Reliability Theory

Manfredi M.A. La Manna

0609: Expectations in first-price auctions

Oliver Kirchkamp and Philipp Reiß

0608: Do fiscal variables affect fiscal expectations? Experiments with real world and lab data

Oliver Kirchkamp, Michele Bernasconi and Paolo Paruolo

0607: Less fighting than expected — experiments with wars of attrition and all-pay auctions

Oliver Kirchkamp

0606: Another explanation for overbidding and another bias for underbidding in first-price auctions

Oliver Kirchkamp and Philipp Reiß

0605: Outside options: Another reason to choose the first-price auction

Oliver Kirchkamp, Eva Poen, and Philipp Reiß

0601: Inter-jurisdiction Subsidy Competition for a New Production Plant: What is the Central Government Optimal Policy?

Osiris Parcero

0519: Estimation of Spatial Weights Matrix in a Spatial Error Model, with an Application to Diffusion in Housing Demand

Arnab Bhattacharjee and Chris Jensen-Butler