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The paper analyses a strategy for avoiding the disclosure of the financial statements of a limited partnership with a limited liability company as general partner (GmbH & Co. KG) according to German Commercial Code (HGB). It describes the formal process of the joining of a natural person as an...
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entsteht eine Gesellschaft, deren Verhältnisse vom Gesellschaftsrecht erfasst und geregelt werden. Im Rahmen der deutschen …
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In this article, I deal with the apparent conflict between certain provisions of the Second Company Law Directive, in particular its Article 25 regulating increases of the share capital of European joint-stock companies, and basic logic of non-liquidation insolvency proceedings, usually referred...
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In this paper, we examine the inconclusive debate on regulatory competition in Europe. We demonstrate that the recent … expansion in the EU company law has created archetypal underpinning for formation of regulatory competition: the ground … foreign options. This is regulatory competition, though it is not for charters and not for re-incorporations, but for capital …
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The law and finance theory is an ambitious and fascinating attempt to combine insights from the theory of corporate finance, institutional economics, legal and economic history as well as the recent studies on the determinants of economic growth into an encompassing theory, thereby filling...
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What legal, political and economic institutions are shaping privatisations processes in the world? This paper addresses the issue presenting new evidence for a sample of 49 countries. From an empirical analysis for the period 1977-1996, the decision to privatise appears to be related to...
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This paper investigates the implications of the fair value protections contemplated by the standard corporate contract (i.e., the standard contract form for which corporate law provides) for the entrepreneur-venture capitalist relationship, focusing, in particular, on unavoidable...
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It has been suggested that mergers, by increasing concentration, raise incentives to invest and hence are pro-competitive. To study the effects of mergers, we rewrite a game with simultaneous price and cost-reducing investment choices as one where firms only choose prices, and make use of...
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market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending … interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is an initial move by firms into niches to exploit local market power …
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This paper investigates the impact of the target chief executive officer's (CEO) postmerger position on the purchase premium and target shareholders' abnormal returns around the announcement of the deal in a sample of bank mergers during the period 1990-2004. We find evidence that the target...
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