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We compare the performance and risk of a sample of 181 large banks from 15 European countries over the 1999-2004 period and evaluate the impact of alternative ownership models, together with the degree of ownership concentration, on their profitability, cost efficiency and risk. Three main...
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We study the problem faced by firms that invest in a foreign country characterized by weak governance. Our focus is on … study the determinants of the quality of governance and whether and how political risk insurance of foreign direct … investments improve upon it. We find that it does not always improve upon all governance indicators. It always decreases the …
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selection essentially underlines projects that are linked to governance. We need to enlarge key words to make e new selection …
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From its very beginning, the governance of the Company of Jesus featured a certain number of specificities : vow of … spiritual exercises to all generations of jesuits. This article shows that the young Company's governance system played a …
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governance. This phenomenon is especially evident in the context of regional development related to the establishment and … operation of science parks. This paper aims to explore how good governance of the territories with a science park amid them was … process. Specifically, this paper examines the impacts a science park has on the governance of its surrounding areas, in terms …
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conservatism across our three measures. While there is no change in weak enforcement/governance countries which remain less … conditionally conservative than strong enforcement/governance countries, the latter exhibit a significant decrease. Further, we …
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