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Strategies in Financial Services, the Shareholders and the System Is Bigger and Broader Better?
Walter, Ingo - 2002
, however measured, and the range of activities conducted by them. Is size positively related to total returns to shareholders …? If so, does this involve gains in efficiency or transfers of wealth to shareholders from other constituencies, or maybe … shareholders and customers, or can it work against their interests in ways that may ultimately impede shareholder value as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442335
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Japan's Economy: The Idiosyncratic Recovery Continues
Patrick, Hugh - 2007
challenges that involve divestitures, mergers, and acquisitions. Activist shareholders are playing an increasingly important yet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009472548
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Privatisation in Australia and the western economies in the 1990's: Distributional and political effects of accounting and financial reporting
Gowland, D; Aiken, M - 2009
This article captures the effects of 1990's privatization two decades later and challenges whether the expected outcomes of Government debt reduction, a change in share ownership, reduced union and government intervention, and improved efficiency have been achieved. It also addresses whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481543
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15.997 Advanced Corporate Risk Management, Spring 2007
Parsons, John E.; Obizhaeva, Anna - 2007
Opportunity for group study by graduate students on current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. From the course home page: Course Description This is a course on how corporations make use of the insights and tools of risk management. Most courses on derivatives,...
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Clean development mechanism: Perspectives from developing countries
Sari, Agus P.; Meyers, Stephen - 2008
acceptance of CDM. The outgrowth of CDM from a proposal from Brazil to establish a Clean Development Fund gave developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435560
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Conservation potential of compact fluorescent lamps in India and Brazil
Gadgil, A.; Martino Jannuzzi, G. de - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP - 2008
electrical energy and peak demand in India and Brazil. Using very conservative assumptions, we find that the cost of conserved … of avoided peak installed capacity is 6 and 9.5 times less than the cost of new installed capacity for India and Brazil … national savings of the order of US $1.2 million per day for India and US $2.5 million per day for Brazil are reached in 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436308
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Projected refined product balances in key Latin American countries: A preliminary examination
2009
Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436759
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Carbon mitigation potential and costs of forestry options in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines and Tanzania
Sathaye, J.; Makundi, W.; Andrasko, K.; Boer, R.; … - 2009
This paper summarizes studies of carbon (C) mitigation potential and costs of about 40 forestry options in seven developing countries. Each study uses the same methodological approach - Comprehensive Mitigation Assessment Process (COMAP) - to estimate the above parameters between 2000 and 2030....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437412
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Determinants of International Competitiveness: A Comparative Study of the Sugar Industry in Australia, Brazil, and the European Union
Banerjee, Shantanu - 2005
generates competitiveness. The dissertation employs a qualitative method of comparative analysis between Australia, Brazil and …
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