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Intro
Preface
Contents
1 Strategic Agility and Success Perception of Polish SMEs: An Alternative Operationalization to Pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 Business Conditions
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Research Method and Hypotheses
1.3 Research Results
1.3.1 Independent Variables: Firms' Characteristics, Strategic Agility, Environment Friendliness
Hostility, Balance of COVID-19 Consequences
1.3.2 Dependent Variables: Indicators of Firms' Performance
1.3.3 Verification of Hypotheses Related to the Relationship Between Strategic Agility, Environmental Friendliness
Hostility and Firms' Performance
1.4 Conclusions
Bibliography
2 R&D Cooperation of Firms and Product Market Competition: An Overview
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Market Setup
2.3 The Cournot-Based Model
2.4 The Stackelberg-Based Model
2.5 Heterogeneous Products
2.6 Price Leadership
2.7 Conclusions
References
3 Market Restrictions of Contracting Out the Public Service at the Municipal Level
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Market Restrictions on Contracting Out Local Public Services: Literature Review
3.3 Impact of Market Concentration on the Provision of Local Public Services
3.4 Materials and Methods
3.5 Results of Market Concentration Analysis for Contracting Out the Service of Collection and Removal of Municipal Solid Waste in the Slovak Municipalities
3.6 Discussion and Conclusion
References
4 Description and Categorisation of Agriculture Holdings in the Region of Western Macedonia
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Methodological Approach
4.2.1 Data Sources and Variables
4.2.2 Methodology
4.3 Results
4.3.1 Characterisation of Factors
4.4 Conclusion
References
5 Debt and Taxes as Value-Added Factors for Multinational Enterprises: International Policy Implications
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Determinant Factors of Debt Financing
5.3 Taxes and the Value of the Firm
5.4 Statistical Analysis of the Relationship Between Debt and the Value of Firms. Does in Reality the Debt Financing Affects the Value of the Firm?
5.5 Some Conclusions and International Policy Implications
Annex: Debt Finance of Main Multinational Firms by Country of Origin 2018-2020
References
6 Modelling and Forecasting GDP of Greece with a Modified Exponential Smoothing State Space Framework
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Forecasts Accuracy in the Literature
6.3 A Short Description of Exponential Smoothing (ES)
6.3.1 Winters' Exponential Smoothing Method
6.3.2 Additive Seasonal Method Hot-Winters
6.3.3 Multiplicative Seasonal Method Hot-Winters
6.4 Error-Trend-Seasonal (ETS) Forecasting Methods
6.4.1 Additive Error Model: ETS (A,Ad,N)
6.4.2 Multiplicative Error Model: ETS(M,Ad,N)
6.4.3 State-Space Models for All Exponential Smoothing Methods
Preface
Contents
1 Strategic Agility and Success Perception of Polish SMEs: An Alternative Operationalization to Pre-COVID-19 and COVID-19 Business Conditions
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Research Method and Hypotheses
1.3 Research Results
1.3.1 Independent Variables: Firms' Characteristics, Strategic Agility, Environment Friendliness
Hostility, Balance of COVID-19 Consequences
1.3.2 Dependent Variables: Indicators of Firms' Performance
1.3.3 Verification of Hypotheses Related to the Relationship Between Strategic Agility, Environmental Friendliness
Hostility and Firms' Performance
1.4 Conclusions
Bibliography
2 R&D Cooperation of Firms and Product Market Competition: An Overview
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Market Setup
2.3 The Cournot-Based Model
2.4 The Stackelberg-Based Model
2.5 Heterogeneous Products
2.6 Price Leadership
2.7 Conclusions
References
3 Market Restrictions of Contracting Out the Public Service at the Municipal Level
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Market Restrictions on Contracting Out Local Public Services: Literature Review
3.3 Impact of Market Concentration on the Provision of Local Public Services
3.4 Materials and Methods
3.5 Results of Market Concentration Analysis for Contracting Out the Service of Collection and Removal of Municipal Solid Waste in the Slovak Municipalities
3.6 Discussion and Conclusion
References
4 Description and Categorisation of Agriculture Holdings in the Region of Western Macedonia
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Methodological Approach
4.2.1 Data Sources and Variables
4.2.2 Methodology
4.3 Results
4.3.1 Characterisation of Factors
4.4 Conclusion
References
5 Debt and Taxes as Value-Added Factors for Multinational Enterprises: International Policy Implications
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Determinant Factors of Debt Financing
5.3 Taxes and the Value of the Firm
5.4 Statistical Analysis of the Relationship Between Debt and the Value of Firms. Does in Reality the Debt Financing Affects the Value of the Firm?
5.5 Some Conclusions and International Policy Implications
Annex: Debt Finance of Main Multinational Firms by Country of Origin 2018-2020
References
6 Modelling and Forecasting GDP of Greece with a Modified Exponential Smoothing State Space Framework
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Forecasts Accuracy in the Literature
6.3 A Short Description of Exponential Smoothing (ES)
6.3.1 Winters' Exponential Smoothing Method
6.3.2 Additive Seasonal Method Hot-Winters
6.3.3 Multiplicative Seasonal Method Hot-Winters
6.4 Error-Trend-Seasonal (ETS) Forecasting Methods
6.4.1 Additive Error Model: ETS (A,Ad,N)
6.4.2 Multiplicative Error Model: ETS(M,Ad,N)
6.4.3 State-Space Models for All Exponential Smoothing Methods