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Geographical dynamics in the old and new economy : analysing the German merger and acquisitions market

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (contributor); … - 2004

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Rising metropoli : the geography of mergers and acquisition in Germany

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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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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Differential merger effects : the case of the personal computer industry

Genakos, Christos D. (contributor) - 2004

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Investing in Children:What Do We Know? What Should We Do?

Danziger, Sheldon; Waldfogel, Jane - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

In October 1998, we convened scholars, policy makers, and practitionersto review what we know about the processes that affect childdevelopment and how we might wisely increase public and privateinvestments in children to promote both their well-being and theproductivity of the next generation....

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Organizing for Synergies

Garicano, Luis - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

Large companies are usually organized into business units, yet some activitiesare almost always centralized in a company-wide functional unit. We firstshow that organizations endogenously create an incentive conflict between functionalmanagers (who desire excessive standardization) and...

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Social Networks and Technology Adoption in Northern Mozambique

Bandiera, Oriana; Rasul, Imran - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2002

This paper presents evidence on how farmers’ decisions to adopt a new crop, sunflower,relate to the adoption choices of farmers in their social network of family and friends. Weshow that the relationship is shaped as an inverse-U, suggesting social effects are positivewhen there are few...

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Banks’ Payments-Driven Revenues

Radecki, Lawrence J. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

bankingindustry. This goal is served by taking a broad view of thepayments business and analyzing information provided bylarge bank …

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Supervisory Information and the Frequency of Bank Examinations

Hirtle, Beverly J.; López, José A. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

length of time between bank examinations affects thequality of information available to supervisors. For thesepurposes, we … condition of a bank. Our analysisassumes that examination information incorporates twotypes of data: information available from … information that can be obtained onlythrough on-site examinations, such as confidential informationabout a bank’s troubled assets …

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Macro Markets and Financial Security

Athanasoulis, Stefano; Shiller, Robert J.; Van Wincoop, Eric - Yale University <New Haven, Conn.> / Department of Economics; … - 1999

[...]We address several questions in this paper. First,how could macro markets be useful to the average person?Second, how large are the potential benefits from diversificationif these markets were to be introduced andused optimally? Third, can existing financial marketsachieve a similar degree...

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