Government to examine the contribution that national reform of building regulation has made and further reform could make to the … in reform of building regulation and to negotiate a new Intergovernmental Agreement. The agreement would clarify the … objectives of building regulation reform; strengthen the commitment to national consistency; and also affirm the importance of a …

This paper analyses bank exit (ie reorganisation and liquidation) legislation in selected financial centres: New York …, London, Frankfurt, Helsinki and Tokyo. The focus is on bank exit legislation applicable to commercial banks. The legislation … is analysed from the perspective of bank stakeholders, ie bank creditors, depositors and bank shareholders. The analysis …

This paper evaluates bank exit regimes in selected financial centres using econometric methods. The focus is on bank … exit regimes applicable to commercial banks in New York, London, Frankfurt, Helsinki and Tokyo in 1998–2002. Bank exit … regimes are studied from the perspective of bank creditors and bank shareholders. In order to apply econometric methods, the …

. Publication patterns of Turkish economists are the same with their counterparts living in the rest of the world. …

hedge funds performance using various asset-pricing models, including an extension form of Carhart's (1997) model combined …, Equity non- Hedge and Sector funds. We analyse the performance of ehdge funds and the persistence in performance for … calculations for several individual hedge fund strategies. We showed there is a proof of persistence in performance in some cases …

Hedge Fund Performance and Persistence in Bull and Bear Markets DANIEL P.J. CAPOCCI University of Liege - Economics … paper tests the performance of 2894 hedge funds in a time period that encompasses unambiguously bullish and bearish trends …-factor composite performance model that achieves very high significance levels. The analysis of performance indicates that most hedge …

We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a population of firms in a model large … private ownership improve dynamic post-privatization performance. Concentrated foreign (but not domestic) ownership improves … some measures of performance relative to state ownership. Foreign investors engage in strategic restructuring by increasing …

determinants of performance of cities. We construct a preliminary worldwide database for cities, containing variables and … indicators of globalization (at the country and city level), city governance, city performance (access and quality of … globalization (at both the country as well as at the city level) do matter for city-level performance in terms of access and quality …