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Diaspora entrepreneurial networks in the Black Sea and Greece, 1870-1917
Louri, Helen; Pepelasis Minoglou, Ioanna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
This study follows the socio-economic aspects of the Greek entrepreneurial network in southern Russia in 1870-1917 using largely new material from Russian archives. The multi-dimensional character of Greek merchants (often being industrialists and landowners) and the close links established...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008923021
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The Origins of the German Corporation – Finance, Ownership and Control
Franks, Julian; Mayer, Colin; Wagner, Hannes F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The ownership of German corporations is quite different today from that of Anglo-American firms. How did this come about? To what extent is it attributable to regulation? A specially constructed data set on financing and ownership of German corporations from the end of the 19th century reveals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785800
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Review of Huerta de Soto´s `Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles´
van den Hauwe, Ludwig - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This article reviews the first English edition of Prof. Jesús Huerta de Soto´s book `Dinero, Crédito Bancario y Ciclos Económicos´ which first appeared in Spain in 1998.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789323
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Governance in Spanish Savings Banks. A Historical Perspective
Maixe-Altes, J. Carles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
During the previous three decades, mutual financial firms have been experiencing a process of demutualization, and some of the non-for-profit banks have become publicly listed companies. Hence, the persistence of the Spanish Savings Banks constitutes an interesting case study. In line with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869298
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The Diffusion of Corporate Governance to Emerging Markets: Evaluating Two Dimensions of Investor Heterogeneity
Kim, Woochan; Sung, Taeyoon; Wei, Shang-Jin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper investigates whether foreign institutional investors in emerging markets can enhance shareholder value. We pay special attention to two dimensions of investor heterogeneity: whether an investor declares itself as an activist, and whether an investor comes from a country with a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110645
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Institutional Monitoring, Coordination and Acquisition Decision in Chinese Public Listed Companies
Peng, Fei; Kang, Lili; Yang, Xiaocong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper endeavors to explore the roles that institutional investors play in acquisition decision of Chinese Public Listed Companies (PLCs). Acquisition decision is assumed as a cost-benefit analysis process of shareholders as strategic alliances. Using micro data in the Chinese stock market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262753
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The medieval origins of the 'Financial Revolution': usury, rentes, and negotiablity
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Netherlands. The major obstacle from the Church was of course the usury doctrine, and more accurately the final evolution of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005031390
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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, Chris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
the riskier crisis-prone ones behind. This paper analyses these debates using the case study of the Netherlands in the … early 1920s. The literature argues that it is during this decade that the Netherlands experienced her one and only … conducts a matched pair comparison of two similar-sized banks operating in the Netherlands in the 1920s: the Amsterdamsche Bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616972
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The 'New Institutional Economics' and the Changing Fortunes of Fairs in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: the Textile Trades, Warfare, and Transaction Costs
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
This paper revisits, modifies, and combines elements of three major ‘institutional’ international-trade models, none of which has yet fully received the attention that it deserves, to provide a new explanation for the growth, decline, and then rebirth of internationally-oriented fairs in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835820
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Institutional Clash and Financial Fragility. An Evolutionary Model of Banking Crises
Knutsen, Sverre; Sjögren, Hans - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
There are mainly two types of theories explaining banking crisis, emanating from the monetarist school respectively institutional economics. Using an allegory, monetarists are discussing how much water in terms of liquidity that is needed to stop a fire escalating into a disaster, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836657