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Pension funds’ performance in strongly regulated industries in Central Europe : evidence from Poland and Hungary

Bohl, Martin T.; Lischewski, Judith; Voronkova, Svitlana - 2010

characterized by strong regulation of their private pension fund industries. Thus, the paper extends the literature which has so far … mostly focused on performance of pension fund industries facing no or limited regulation. We find that the performance of … fund management ; investment and performance regulation ; performance measurement ; Central European stock markets …

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Do private equity owners increase risk of financial distress and bankruptcy?

Tykvová, Tereza; Borell, Mariela - 2011

There is some controversy on the key sources of success in the private equity model and on how this business model affects the portfolio companies. We investigate financial distress risks of European companies around the buyout event in the period between 2000 and 2008. In addition, we analyze...

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Sources of value creation through private equity-backed mergers and acquisitions : the case of buy-and-build strategies

Borell, Mariela; Heger, Diana - 2013

This article documents a new value creation function of private equity investors who carry out buy-and-build strategies. Buy-and-build strategies constitute an initial acquisition of a firm, serving as a “platform”, by a private equity investor and follow-on private equity-backed...

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Geographical and institutional distances in venture capital deals : how syndication and experience drive internationalization patterns

Tykvová, Tereza; Schertler, Andrea - 2011

Drawing on a novel dataset of worldwide venture capital deals, we investigate how venture capitalists (VCs) overcome the complexity of investing in geographically and institutionally distant regions. Our results indicate that syndicating with local VCs is a common way for foreign VCs to gain...

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Loan availability and investment : can innovative companies better cope with loan denials?

Müller, Elisabeth; Reize, Frank - 2010

This study examines the consequences of loan denials for the investment performance of small and medium-sized German enterprises. As a consequence of a loan denial, innovative companies experience a smaller drop in the share of actual to planned investment than non-innovative companies. The...

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Are SRI funds conventional funds in disguise or do they live up to their name?

Nitsche, Christin; Schröder, Michael - 2015

In recent years, the socially responsible investing (SRI) industry has become an important segment of international capital markets by incorporating ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) factors into investment selection and management processes. This study analyses whether SRI mutual funds...

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Socially responsible investments in Germany, Switzerland and the United States : an analysis of investment funds and indices

Schröder, Michael - 2003

The aim of this study is the analysis of so called socially responsible investments (SRI). First, the performance of SRI equity investment funds and equity indices is investigated using Jensen's alpha as performance measure. The analysis considers market timing strategies of the fund management...

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Suchmaschinen unter der Lupe : Informationsherrschaft und ihre Schranken

Peitz, Martin; Schweitzer, Heike - 2016

einer Regulierung gestellt. Die "Informationsherrschaft" hat dabei verschiedene Seiten: Zum einen kann die unbegrenzte … diese Interessen gegeneinander abwägen. Mit der "Regulierung" gegenläufiger informationeller Interessen obliegt ihnen eine … öffentliche Regulierungsfunktion zuzuweisen. In diesem Artikel sprechen wir uns gegen eine solche ex-ante-Regulierung aus. Das …

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Incentive regulation : evidence from German electricity networks

Hellwig, Michael; Schober, Dominik; Cabral, Luís M. B. - 2019 - This version: January 29, 2019

used to determine future prices when subject to a lower-powered regulation mechanism. The difference is particularly …

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Die Bedeutung von OTT-Diensten für die Telekommunikationsregulierung

Fetzer, Thomas - 2016

Regulierung auf Substitut-OTT-Dienste als auch durch eine Rückführung der bestehenden Regulierung für alle Dienste herbeizuführen … im Sinne einer Zwangsläufigkeit zur vollständigen Aufhebung der sektorspezifischen Regulierung beantwortet werden ... …

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