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Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions
Stavrinakis, Spyros G.; Harm, Christian; Llewellyn, David T. - 2007
On 29th - 30th March 2007, SUERF and the Central Bank of Cyprus jointly organized a Seminar: Corporate Governance in … paper based on a keynote address, Spyros G. Stavrinakis, Central Bank of Cyprus gives an overview of the legal framework for … corporate governance in financial institutions in Cyprus. According to a Central BankDirective issued in 2006, implementation of …
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Institutional reform and pockets of effectiveness in the Mozambique gas sector
Macuane, José Jaime; Buur, Lars; Salimo, Padil - 2022
Given the increasing importance of gas in the Mozambican economy, the success of institutional reforms is key to the country's economic prospects of benefiting positively from the expected gas bonanza. In this paper we analyze the performance of the new institutional reforms (NIA) in Mozambique,...
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Venture capital and private equity investment strategies in selected European countries
Dziekoński, Krzysztof; Ignatiuk, Sławomir - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 11 (2015) 4, pp. 34-45
Private equity and venture capital (PE/VC) funding is the provision of equity capital by financial investors to non-quoted companies with high growth potential. It has a particular emphasis on entrepreneurial activities rather than on mature businesses. PE/VC investors differ on several...
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The impact on employment and hours of allowing sunday alcohol sales in Georgia
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Qi, Yanling - 2015
This paper uses the differential timing across counties of the removal of restrictions on Sunday alcohol sales in the state of Georgia to determine whether the change had an impact on employment and hours in the beer, wine, and liquor retail sales industry. A triple-difference analysis finds...
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The Coevolutionary Relationship of Technology, Market and Government Regulation in Telecommunications
Lin, Xuchen; Lu, Ting-Jie; Chen, Xia - 2017
The technical change in telecommunications industry is tremendous, and it is exactly the continuous technological progress in telecommunications that brings sustained prosperity and development of the telecommunications industry. Inthis paper, the interplay between technology, market and...
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Unraveling the Origins of EU Countries Productivity Growth - Evidence on R&D and Competition from Cross-Country Industry Analysis
Strobel, Thomas - 2010
Over the last two decades EU countries experienced diverging productivity growthdevelopments. By examining the sources of EU countries growth drivers on the sectorallevel, the paper takes a new look on the influence of innovations. While standard neoclassicalNon-ICT capital deepening turns out...
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Review of high-value agriculture in the Philippines with comprehensive subsectoral focus: Livestock industries
Domingo, Sonny N.; Olaguera, Ma. Divina C. - 2017
Enhancing the performance of the Philippine agriculture sector remains a key input to economic growth and inclusivity. Focus of development interventions in recent years have been on crops, particularly on the major grain staples. Shifting attention to more competitive and higher value...
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Auctioning resource rights
Hendricks, Kenneth; Porter, Robert H. - 2013
We review the issues involved in designing a mechanism for allocating resource rights. We focus on the case of exploration and development rights for oil and gas leases in U.S. federal lands to highlight the tradeoffs at play. The main issues concern the design of the lease contract, the design...
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Donor-supported approaches to improving extractives governance: Lessons from Nigeria and Ghana
Buckley, Joanna; McCulloch, Neil; Travis, Nick - 2017
Donor interest in the extractives sector is based upon the premise that it represents an opportunity to improve a country's development prospects. However, in many cases the presence of extractive resources is associated with poor economic performance. As a result, some donors are trying a...
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Doubling down: National oil companies as instruments of risk and reward
Heller, Patrick R. P. - 2017
National oil companies tend to elicit unequivocal views. To political leaders within petroleum-producing countries, they often represent a sine qua non of a strategy capable of delivering long-term benefits to citizens. To many international analysts and donors, they represent vestiges of an...
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