This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at home when domestic equity prices are higher,...

We examine 802 investments by 33 Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) in publicly traded companies between May 1985 and November 2009, and find that SWFs tend to invest in large, levered, profitable growth firms, usually headquartered in an OECD country. Announcements of SWF investments yield...

Part I: Climate Change challenge, CSR, ESG issues: the state of the art -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapater 2: Self-consciousness and awareness as adaptation enablers -- Chapter 3: Climate change challenges and the policy makers initial response -- Chapter 4: SRI, ESG and Value of...

We analyse the relationship between the extent of a firm's corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its long-term survival probability. We conjecture that a better CSR rating is associated with a lower probability of corporate failure and a longer survival period. Consistent with this, we...

This paper contributes to the growing political economy literature of within-country natural resources management, by proposing a new resource policy for the oil-rich southern Italian region of Basilicata. The policy proposal is to establish a (regional) wealth fund in which all the royalty...

We measure the contribution of firm-embedded productivity to cross-country income differences. By firm-embedded productivity we refer to the components of productivity that differ across firms and that can be transferred internationally, such as blueprints, management practices, and intangible...

Introduction -- Public Wealth Management and Distribution in the Extractive Industry in Nigeria -- Public Wealth Management and Distribution in Kenya’s Extractives Sector -- Extractive Resources Management in Indonesia. .

Chapter 1: International Finance -- Chapter 2: International Institutions of International Finance -- Chapter 3: The Balance of Payments -- Chapter 4: International Corporate Governance -- Chapter 5: Foreign Exchange Transactions and Money Markets -- Chapter 6: International Equity Markets --...