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Regime Changes and FDI : A Tale of Two Countries – Poland and Israel
Razin, Asaf; Cieślik, Andrzej - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
regime change, the essay spotlights the tale of two countries: Poland and Israel. The liberalization of the Polish economy … and market reforms in the late 1980s and early 1990s boosted Poland's attractiveness to international companies. However …, decades-long of illiberal policies under the PiS regime has reduced Poland's appeal to foreign investors. Similarly, Israel …
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Wall Street's First Corporate Governance Crisis : The Panic of 1826
Hilt, Eric - 2009
In July of 1826, several prominent Wall Street firms abruptly went bankrupt, amid scandalous revelations of fraudulent financial practices by their management. Although mostly forgotten today, these events represented a watershed in the early development of the corporation laws and investor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463756
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Taxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities
Desai, Mihir A. - 2007
Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment (FPI) or foreign direct investment (FDI). By combining data on US outbound FPI and FDI, this paper analyzes whether the composition of US outbound capital flows reflect efforts to bypass home...
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International taxation and multinational activity
Hines, James R. (ed.) - 2001
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The effects of taxation on multinational corporations
Feldstein, Martin S. (contributor);  … - 1995
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The Degree of Judicial Enforcement and Credit Markets : Evidence from Japanese Household Panel Data
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2010
In this paper, we conduct an empirical analysis of the impact of better judicial enforcement on the probability of being credit rationed, loan size, and the probability of bankruptcy using household-level data from the Japanese Panel Survey of Consumers, conducted by the Institute for Research...
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The Rise of the Regulatory State
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2001
During the Progressive Era at the beginning of the 20th century, the United States replaced litigation by regulation as the principal mechanism of social control of business. To explain why this happened, we present a model of choice of law enforcement strategy between litigation and regulation...
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Organizations, civil society, and the roots of development
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (ed.); Wallis, John Joseph (ed.) - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2017
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A New Approach to Takeover Law and Regulatory Competition
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 2001
The development of U.S. state takeover law in the past three decades has produced considerable and quite possibly excessive protection for incumbent managers from hostile takeovers. Although the shortcomings of state takeover law have been widely recognized, there has been little support for...
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Federalism and Takeover Law : The Race to Protect Managers from Takeovers
Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 2000
This paper analyzes certain important shortcomings of state competition in corporate law. In particular, we show, with respect to takeovers, states have incentives to produce rules that excessively protect incumbent managers. The development of state takeover law, we argue, is consistent with...
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