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Do investors disproportionately shed assets of distant countries under increased uncertainty? : evidence from the global financial crisis
2012
The global crisis of 2008-09 went in hand with sharp fluctuations in capital flows. To some extent, these fluctuations may have been attributable to uncertainty-averse investors indiscriminately selling assets about which they had poor information, including those in geographically distant...
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Understanding Ponzi schemes : can better financial regulation prevent investors from being defrauded?
Lewis, Mervyn K. - 2015
A Ponzi scheme is one of the simplest, albeit effective, financial frauds to engineer, and new schemes keep coming forward. Despite this, however, people continue to invest in them. How are we to account for the seemingly never-ending lure of such schemes? In providing answers to this central...
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Globalization and the environment : risk assessment and the WTO
Kellow, Aynsley John (contributor);  … - 2001
One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects … of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international … trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with: accounting for risk in trade agreements; risk and the WTO …
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Environmental Risks and Insurance : A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Insurance in the Management of Environment-Related Risks
2003
catastrophic in their consequences. Therefore, the elaboration of effective risk-management plans, aimed at formulating viable … management of environmental risks - environmental pollution risk and natural catastrophe risk in particular. It discusses the … issue of insurability of such risks, analyses the increasing risk of liability for environmental pollution and the …
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Trade, investment and technology in the 1990s
1991
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Regulatory approaches in OECD countries
1999
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Competitive electricity markets and sustainability
Lévêque, François (contributor) - 2006
Investments in competitive electricity markets : an overview / François Lévêque -- Investment and generation capacity … transmission investment in a deregulated power / Steven Stoft -- Patterns of transmission investments / Paul Joskow -- Long …-term locational prices and investment incentives in the transmission of electricity / Yves Smeers -- Compatibility of investment …
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Environmental Requirements for Industrial Permitting : Vol 1 - Approaches and Instruments -- Vol 2 - OECD Workshop on the Use of Best Available Technologies and Environmental Quali...
1999
Environmental permits have played a major role in improving industry's environmental performance across the last few decades. Because they adopt a precautionary approach during the setting of environmental requirements, permitting strategies have also favoured pollution prevention. However,...
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Private finance and economic development : city and regional investment
Potter, Jonathan (contributor) - 2003
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