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Endogenously chosen board structure: Evidence from the US bank holding companies
Pathan, Shams - 2009
gender diversity) for a sample of 212 bank holding companies from 1997 to 2004. Overall, the results show that the costs and …This paper examines the trends and endogenous formation of bank board structure (size, independence, CEO duality and … benefits of boards monitoring and advising roles could explain bank board structure with caveats. For example, due to …
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11.437 Financing Economic Development, Fall 2003
Seidman, Karl F. - 2003
include revolving loan funds, guarantee programs, venture capital funds, bank holding companies, community development loan … funds and credit unions, micro enterprise funds, and the use of the Community Reinvestment Act to leverage bank financing. …
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Technologischer Kompetenzaufbau durch Internationalisierung in Emerging Markets - Eine theoretisch-konzeptionelle Analyse.
Hackl, Benedikt - 2008
This paper elucidates the dimensions and factors of competence-building in foreign subsidiaries in emergings markets …
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Analysis of the Capital Structure of German Companies with the SSA and SVM
Pohlmann, Tim Fabien - 2007
This thesis presents and compares the performance of two recently developed classification methods namely the Spatial Stagewise Aggregation procedure and Support Vector Machines. Both techniques are convenient for the application to corporate bankruptcy analysis, in terms of calculation of...
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The Economics of Corporate Bankruptcy Law
Wohlschlegel, Ansgar - 2002
Apart from an extensive survey of the literature on the economics of corporate bankruptcy law, this thesis contains three own contributions: First, a model is presented where a firm's manager acquires some private information about whether a firm should be liquidated or stay in business....
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The Diminishing Effect of Cultural Distance on Subsidiary Control
Wilkinson, Timothy J.; Peng, George Z.; Brouthers, Lance; … - 2008
subsidiaries than for older subsidiaries. Implications for future research are discussed. …
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Essays in Empirical Finance: Evaluating Risk in FinancialMarkets
Shcherbakova, Alysa - 2009
Essays in Empirical Finance: Evaluating Risk in FinancialMarketsBy Alysa V. ShcherbakovaThis dissertation is comprised of two parts, each addressing animportant type of financial risk. The first part is composed of anessay discussing Market Risk. This essay examines a causalrelationship between...
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An investigation of issues relating to where energy should enter the production function
Lecca, Patrizio; Swales, J. Kim; Turner, Karen - 2010
This paper examines the impact of imposing different separability assumptions in the specifications of the standard hierarchical KLEM production function in a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. The appropriate means of introducing energy to sectoral production functions in CGE models...
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Happiness and Monetary Factors
De, Sanjay - 2008
Previous literature studying happiness, or subjective well-being, has mainly analyzedhappiness in relation to income. However, such an approach is incomplete, as assets and debtprovide additional information related to an individual’s economic well-being. The purpose ofthis thesis is to...
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Predictable behavior of security returns and test of asset pricing models
Jegadeesh, Narasimhan - 1987
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