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An analysis of shareholder agreements

Chemla, Gilles (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Methods for Evaluating Value-at-Risk Estimates

López, José A. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1998

In August 1996, the U.S. bank regulatory agenciesadopted the market risk amendment (MRA) to the 1988Basle Capital …

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Risk Management: One Institution’s Experience

Labrecque, Thomas G. - Chase Manhattan Corporation; London School of Economics … - 1998

I am very pleased to be part of this forward-looking conferenceon developments in capital regulation. Because thepurpose of capital is to support risk, I decided to approachthis session from the viewpoint of someone leading aninstitution that depends, for its success or failure, on howwell it...

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Government and management

Beeching, Richard - 1967

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Legality and venture governance around the world

Cumming, Douglas (contributor); Schmidt, Daniel (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Risk Management by Structured Derivative Product Companies

Remolona, Eli M.; Bassett, William; Geoum, In Sun - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1996

[...]In this article, we explore the DPCs’ approachesto risk management and the extent to which theseapproaches provide competitive advantage. We begin bycharacterizing the major intermediaries in the derivativesmarkets and describing how they manage risk. We thendiscuss the emergence of...

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Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives

Bandiera, Oriana; Guiso, Luigi; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2012

We provide evidence on the match between rms, managers, and incentives using anew survey that contains information on managers' risk preferences and human capital,on their compensation schemes, and on the rms they work for. The data is consistentwith the equilibrium correlations predicted by...

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Are Public Sector CEOs Different?Leadership Wages and Performance in Schools

Besley, Timothy; Machin, Stephen - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

This paper uses a unique data set to investigate the link betweenthe pay and performance of school principals. It is frequently arguedthat public sector CEOs are paid like bureaucrats with little rewardfor good performance. However, this ignores the possibility of implicitlabor market...

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Universal Banking Failure? An Analysis of the Contrasting Responses of the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging to the Dutch Financial Crisis of the 1920s

Colvin, Christopher Louis - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

two similar-sized banks operating in the Netherlands in the 1920s: the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche … Bankvereeniging. Whilst the first escaped the crisis relatively unscathed, the second required assistance from the Nederlandsche Bank …, the Dutch central bank. A new and detailed narrative of one episode of the crisis using as yet unused primary sources is …

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The Effects Of The 1925 Portuguese Bank Note Crisis

Wigan, Henry - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

On 5 December 1925, the ‘Portuguese Bank Note Bubble’ burst. The Lisbon daily newspaper, O Século (The Century … English security printing company Waterlow and Sons that he was a representative of the Bank of Portugal, and created his own … bank through which he concealed over £3m in counterfeit money.[...] …

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