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The impact of institutional investors and increasingly sophisticated financial instruments on risk and leverage
Bojańczyk, Mirosław - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The volatility of capital markets is often blamed on the activities of institutional investors, or an excessive amount of financial instruments. It must be remembered that there are different institutional investors. Some of them play a very useful role without having a negative impact on the...
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The Economics of Financial Derivative Instruments
NWAOBI, GODWIN C - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
which the risk management and hedging needs of investors may be effectively met through the derivative instruments. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621718
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SPACs in Shipping
Shachmurove, Yochanan; Vulanovic, Milos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In this study we examine how Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) were used as a financing tool for companies in the shipping industry in period 2004-2011. We confirm that SPACs focused on acquisitions in the shipping industry have similar characteristics as the population of SPACs...
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Islamic private equity: what is new?
Yousfi, Ouidad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The current paper analyzes similarities and differences between conventional and Islamic private equity (PE). Despite the financial subprime crisis and the lack of liquidities in financial markets, PE still play an important role in financing growing unlisted firms all over the world. However,...
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A Comparative Analysis of the Legal Obstacles to Institutional Investor Activism in Europe and in the US
Santella, Paolo; Baffi, Enrico; Drago, Carlo; Lattuca, Dino - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
separation of financial risk from voting rights seems to be practiced more by controlling shareholders at the expense of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836299
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Le rôle de la dette dans le LBO : une revue de la littérature.
Yousfi, Ouidad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
After 1985, a large number of LBO projects were not able to meet their debt, like for example Federated Department Stores LBO repurchased by Campeau and Gateway LBO repurchased by Macy's. But, the conventional view of LBO transactions is that they are designed to improve the efficiency of the...
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Private equity and venture capital in South Africa: A comparison of project financing decisions
Portmann, David; Mlambo, Chipo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper investigates the manner in which private equity and venture capital firms in South Africa assess investment … capitalists. There is also an observable shift in the investment activities away from start-up funding and towards later …-stage deals. Risk appetite has also declined post the financial crisis. …
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Share repurchases, signaling effect and implications for corporate governance: Evidence from India
Reddy, Kotapati Srinivasa; Nangia, Vinay Kumar; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
It is worth mentioning that a great deal of financial liberalization, privatization and internationalization policies in emerging economies have significantly increased the corporate restructuring activities like mergers, acquisitions, share repurchases, and stock splits, among others. Indeed,...
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Strategies on initial public offering of company equity at stock exchanges in imperfect highly volatile global capital markets with induced nonlinearities
Ledenyov, Dimitri O.; Ledenyov, Viktor O. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
information absorption capacity by the investors on the IPOs impacts the investor’s investment decisions and serves as a pre … investment strategies can only be selected by the investors with the highest information absorption capacity through the decision … making process on the IPO investment choices at the selected stock exchange in the imperfect highly volatile global capital …
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All Things Considered: The Interaction of the Reasons for the Financial Crisis
Rioja, Abdala; E, Yamile - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The present paper reviews the causes that led to the financial crisis. Unlike other interpretations, this paper does not place main significance on a single source or on a set of causes. I consider all major standpoints highlighted by research and media prior, during and after the financial...
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