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The new Brazilian Cheques Act of 1985 and the Geneva Uniform Law on Cheques.
Heinrich, Gregor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986
In September 1985, Brazil enacted a new Cheques Act. It is based on the Uniform Law on Cheques, pursuant to the Geneva conventions of 1930-31. This codification is of practical interest for commercial and financial transactions with Brazil since it puts an end to a period of uncertainty as to...
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Institutional Laws, and Mergers and Acquisitions in India: A Review/Recommendation
Reddy, K. Srinivasa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The paper intends to review, summarize and discuss various institutional laws refer to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in India, and thereby recommend fruitful policy guidelines for institutions and managers participating in foreign investment and acquisition deals. Further, we also show the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240209
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Methods for Multicountry Studies of Coporate Governance: Evidence from the BRIKT Countries
Black, Bernard; Carvalho, Antonio Gledson De; Khanna, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We discuss empirical challenges in multicountry studies of the effect of firm-level corporate governance on firm value, focusing on emerging markets. We assess the severe data, “construct validity,” and endogeneity issues in these studies, propose methods to respond to those issues, and...
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Building a universal payments law?: The UNCITRAL Model Law on International Credit Transfers.
Henrich, Gregor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991
The article descibes the process leading to the draft of the Model Law as discussed in 1991. The text of the draft is reproduced as Annex. The Model Law is designed to produce a comprehensive body of rules to govern relations between parties to funds transfer transactions.
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GAMESMANSHIP, third parties and arbitration: reflecting on the paradigm of PPP disputes
Dimitrios, Athanasakis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Disputes occurring in PPP projects pervade three interfacing levels of agreements: internal, downstream, and peripheral. PPP disputes have been free from arbitral dispute resolution and their legal environment is uncertain and deregulated. While project partners appear to have a natural monopoly...
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Shell Oil Company in Nigeria: Impediment or Catalyst of Socio-Economic Development?
Kingston, Kato Gogo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the She oil company, through investment and crude oil exploration, benefits socio-economic growth in Nigeria in general and in the Niger Delta of Nigeria in particular. In 1998, the United Nations Special Rapporteur's report on Nigeria accused...
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Sorting with shame in the laboratory
Ong, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Trust is indispensable to fiduciary fields (e.g., credit rating), where experts exercise wide discretion on others … behalf. Can the shame from scandal sort trustworthy people out of a fiduciary field? I tested for the possibility in a …. This suggests that the mere belief that a subject would exploit the greater discretion and unobservability of a fiduciary …
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The Strength of Weak Cooperation:an Attempt to Understand the Meaning of Web 2.0
Cardon, Dominique; Cardon, Christophe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper examines some continuities and ruptures in the use of Web 2.0 such as blogs, social media, user-generated content services etc. vis-à-vis earlier web services. We hypothesize that one of the sociological characteristics of Web 2.0 services is that making personal production public...
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The Triangular Relationship between the Commission, NRAs and National Courts Revisited
Larouche, Pierre; Larouche, Maartje - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In this article, the authors review the relationship between the Commission, the national regulatory authorities (NRAs) and national courts in light of the Commission's proposals for reform as laid out in the 2006 Review. They focus upon the Article 7 and Article 4 procedures of Directive...
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Comparative Analysis Between the External Auditor's Role in Bank Regulation and Supervision
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This comparative analysis discusses the differences between the structure and systems of bank regulation operating in the UK, Germany, Italy and the US. The importance of harmonisation in achieving stated supervisory objectives is also emphasised. The main objective of this chapter is to...
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