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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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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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Careers for the unskilled in the Great Eastern Railway Company, 1870-1913

Howlett, Peter - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

One of the most significant changes in the labour market in the twentieth century was the rise of the internal labour market. Its origins can be found in the nineteenth century, particularly in the large service companies such as banks and the railway companies. By studying the internal labour...

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Banking for the Poor: Evidence from India

Burgess, Robin; Pande, Rohini; Wong, Grace - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

Indian states. In addition, the enforcement ofdirected bank lending requirements was associated with increased bankborrowing …

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Financial Consolidationand Monetary Policy

English, William - United States / Reserve Board; London School of …

The 1990s were characterized by substantial financial sectorconsolidation across a large number of industrializedcountries...

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Central Bank Tools and Liquidity Shortages

Cecchetti, Stephen G.; Disyatat, Piti - London School of Economics and Political Science

, centralbanks have made extensive use of both new and existing toolsfor supplying central bank money to financial institutions …

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