China is ranking first in cotton production for more than 20 years. The adoption of GM cotton, since 1997, through the … nevertheless will remain a short term one if no regulation is provided to prevent the market development from excessive and unfair …

Within the wide literature regarding franchising, a few studies were devoted to the adverse selection phenomena in the … concluded that the signaling framework is not well adapted to study franchising. However, most of the empirical literature has … focused on developed countries. This empirical paper deals with the case of Brazil. We estimate on recent franchising data a …

the upstream firm. The analytical part of the paper surveys the vast literature devoted to franchising and to dual …

This paper deals with the relationships between plural form and performance in franchising networks in Europe. It is … performance. The model has been estimated using panel data on 41 publicly listed European franchising networks in the 1998 …

Institute France Isère and Wall Street Institute China Shenzhen, in terms of four aspects which are: infrastructure, service …

of deposit insurance adoption on individual bank leverage. Using a panel of banks across 117 countries during the period … capital buffer. This increase in bank leverage then translates into higher probability of insolvency. Most importantly, I …

-fulfilling bank panic. Furthermore, we test various means to prevent or to curb it: the suspension of deposit convertibility, the … "narrow banking" solution. We confirm the possibility of pure-panic bank runs as formalized by Diamond and Dybvig (1983 …). However, this situation remains rare. Partial and self-fulfilling bank runs represent a more general situation. That …

potential problems at Northern Rock in advance of the bank announcing that it had negotiated emergency lending facilities at the … Bank of England in September 2007. A further aim of the paper is to examine the signalling qualities of four financial … measures of bank risk) so as to explore both the relative and individual qualities of each. Therefore, the paper's findings …