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The choice between rights offerings and private equity placements

Cronqvist, Henrik; Nilsson, Mattias - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2001

We develop and test a nested logit model to examine how firms choose between a rights offering and a private equity placement. We find that family-controlled firms avoid issue methods that dilute control benefits or subject them to more monitoring, in particular when the family’s control...

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The Swedish Finance Company Crisis -- Could It Have Been Anticipated?

Jennergren, L. Peter - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2001

The Swedish finance company crisis was a kind of "run" that happened in September, 1990. It marked the beginning of the … Swedish banking crisis of the early 1990's. The crisis was initially focused on the finance company Nyckeln. The specific … authority and to the banks that were involved in lending to the finance companies. The paper then inquires whether there were …

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Competitiveness

Arndt, Sven W.; Bouton, Lawrence - American Enterprise Institute

This volume focuses on factors that have contributed to the deterioration of the U.S. trade balance and the erosion of American competitiveness.

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Trade and Wages

Bhagwati, Jagdish; Kosters, Marvin H. - American Enterprise Institute

A discussion of the perceived widening wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers that analyzes the implications of such a gap upon trade in the context of NAFTA.

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Taxation of Financial Services under a Consumption Tax

Merrill, Peter R. - American Enterprise Institute

Seemingly common-sense taxation approaches raise issues of equity, tax administration, and unintended economic consequences.

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Is the Bank Merger Wave of the 1990s Efficient?

Calomiris, Charles W.; Karceski, Jason - American Enterprise Institute

This book discusses banking, insurance, and securities regulation, as well as issues in consumer finance and electronic …

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Competitive Equity

Wallison, Peter J.; Litan, Robert E. - American Enterprise Institute

This book recommends the creation of a new, alternative legal structure for collective investment, the "managed investment trust."

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Is Free TV for Federal Candidates Constitutional?

Bevan, Carol Statuto - American Enterprise Institute

If some members of Congress and the Federal Communications Commission have their way, they will mandate free television for federal candidates.

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Trade Policy and U.S. Competitiveness

Barfield, Claude; Makin, John H. - American Enterprise Institute

Economists, trade policy experts, and legislators express their views on the competitive position of the United States in world trade.

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Optional Federal Chartering and Regulation of Insurance Companies

Wallison, Peter J. - American Enterprise Institute

In response to heightened competition, the larger insurance companies and various insurance industry groups have become interested in the concept of federal chartering and regulation.

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