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The impact of investment funds on restructuring practices and employment levels
Gospel, Howard; Haves, Jakob; Pendleton, Andrew - 2010
One feature of the global economy in recent years has been the increasing number and importance of new investment funds (private equity (PE), hedge funds (HFs), and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs)), which are sometimes referred to as alternative investment funds (AIFs). This increase has...
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The impact of investment funds on restructuring practices and employment levels : Company case studies
Gospel, Howard; Haves, Jakob; Pendleton, Andrew - 2010
This report examines whether investment funds – in particular, private equity, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds – help to revive underperforming companies and thereby contribute to employment growth or whether, on the contrary, they strive to maximise financial returns at the expense...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903926
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Liberalisation and development of the Czech financial sector: more to come
Kay, Neil - 2007
The Czech financial sector has changed dramatically since transition. In fifteen years, it has developed from a state-owned mono-bank into a privatised bank-based financial system with developing capital and private equity markets. This country focus analyses the development of the financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009641248
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Finance and growth in the EU
De Ávila, Diego Romero - 2003
This paper analyses the link between finance and growth by studying the effect that the process of financial deregulation and harmonisation of banking laws at the EU level has brought about on growth over the last 40 years. Our main findings point to the existence of a positive long-run growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635911
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HEDGE FUNDS Transparency and Conflict of Interest
Narayan, Naik - 2007
The hedge fund industry has risen in 2007 to the top of the international political agenda, yet the debate surrounding it is limited by a lack of understanding of how the industry functions, or even how it is to be defined. The industry consists largely of investment funds operating from...
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Hedge Funds and Financial Stability
Stork, Philip - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009638627
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Statistics Multi-Beneficiary Programmes : Programmes covered: ZZ-9911, ZZ-0027, ZZ-0109, 2002/000-602, 2003/005-623 ; Phare Ex Post Evaluation. Phase 1, Multi-Beneficiary Programme...
MWH Consortium - 2006
Slovakia) and Bulgaria and Romania. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012036378
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Migration trends in selected applicant countries : Volume IV Romania
Lazaroiu, Sebastian - 2004
Migration is a rather new phenomenon in Romania after 1990. The difference between in-flows and out-flows is … thinks of the economic potential of Romania. The labour market is not very attractive and the business environment is under … Romania has been mostly a transit country and not a destination country. However, there is a risk to ignore future trends and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636161
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Die Unterstützung der Roma-Gemeinschaften in Mittel- und Osteuropa durch die EU
Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Erweiterung - 2003
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