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Die Erweiterung der Möglichkeiten privater Anleger und die Ausgestaltung des Anlegerschutzes in Japan - Anlageschadensprozesse und das "Gesetz über den Verkauf etc. von Finanzprodu...
Schulte, Christine - 2004
Die Arbeit beschreibt die Ausgestaltung des Anlegerschutzes in Japan vor dem Hintergrund der Deregulierung des japanischen Finanzsystems und in Zusammenhang mit der Entwicklung des Verbraucherschutzes.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451162
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Two Essays on the Role of Information in the Interaction between American Depository Receipts and Their Home Shares: Information Transfer and Issuer Decisions
Cheung, Oi Lin - 2008
American Depository Receipts (ADRs) represent shares of foreign firms that are issuedand traded in the U.S. Since an ADR and its underlying shares represent ownership interest ofthe same firm, they should be perfect substitutes in a perfect market. However, marketimperfections such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468649
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Two Essays on the Role of Information in the Interaction between American Depository Receipts and Their Home Shares: Information Transfer and Issuer Decisions
Cheung, Oi Lin - 2008
American Depository Receipts (ADRs) represent shares of foreign firms that are issued and traded in the U.S. Since an ADR and its underlying shares represent ownership interest of the same firm, they should be perfect substitutes in a perfect market. However, market imperfections such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451102
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The Twin Agency Problems in Corporate Finance - On the basis of Stulz's theory
Du, Juan - 2009
is critically affected by Twin Agency Problems: firstly, the controlling shareholders can use their power for their own … at the expense of all shareholders. When these agency problems worsen, diffuse ownership is inefficient and ownership … globalization. On the basis of Stulz’s theory and remaining the central role of the Twin Agency Problems in fostering ownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009452443
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Essays on international corporate cash holdings
Jia, Yonghong - 2011
This dissertation is composed of two distinct chapters. The first chapter is concerned with the secular trends in corporate cash holdings and the determinants of the changing cash policies for seven industrialized countries--Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the US, and UK. In the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009431815
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432744
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Conditional Betas, Higher Comoments and the Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns
Xu, Lei - 2010
coefficients of coskewness and cokurtosis have the correct sign as predicted by the higher-moment CAPM theory but only cokurtosis … size and book-to-market ratio in Chapter 3. This is a cross-sectional test of the conditional CAPM. The models examined …-factor asset pricing models. Models tested are the CAPM, the Fama-French three-factor model and a four-factor model including the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009440933