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. Especially, with a performance perspective: does diversification beyond “traditional” banking result in actual diversification of … Holding Companies (BHC) and, consistently with the return of banks to more customer-centric activities, distinguish banking …. After assessing the performance profile of banking activities on a stand-alone basis, we find that the addition of …
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The research shows that banking relationships are important to lending. However, few studies focus on the banking … whether banking relationships help firms to benefit from better terms for syndicated loans in a chaotic financial environment …
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Given the importance of governance systems in companies and to all its partners, collective responsibility of the different governance devices has been highlighted. The role of the Board which can be viewed as a body of supreme control remains highly controversial in the in different...
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The possible existence of a link between the structure of firms' equity and profitability is a recurrent question among economists. The primary objective of this article is to provide a critical analysis of the two most recent hypotheses on the subject, one put forward by Demsetz, and the other...
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This chapter summarizes recent research on the role of law, culture and corruption on venture capital (VC) fund structure, governance and performance. Evidence from studies that involve a multitude of countries is primarily considered. The evidence across most studies is broadly consistent with...
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French accounting values, accounting and reporting system characteristics and the nature of corporate owners and financiers account for the low level of French companies' disclosure. The aim of this paper is to relate the extent of disclosure in the annual reports of a sample of 100 French...
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As a stock exchange dedicated to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the success of the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) has established this segment of the London Stock Exchange as the benchmark, of which the Alternext is considered a flawed copy. This article aims to invalidate this...
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earnings over time. The comparison between traditional deposits-loans banking and financial activities is a further specific … financial activities appear slightly more sensitive, but the resilience of more traditional banking activities is also affected …
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Islamic and conventional investment funds have the same purpose. However, unlike conventional funds, Islamic funds offer different investment contracts and have to invest in accordance with a set of selection rules. This dissertation focuses on developing theoretical and empirical analysis...
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Debt is not frequently analyzed in relation to the conflict between controlling and outside shareholders. At the same time, debt helps to manage the type II corporate agency conflicts because it is easier for controlling shareholders to modify the leverage ratio than to modify their share of...
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