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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...

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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

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How does the ECB allot liquidity in its weekly main refinancing operations?

Ejerskov, Steen; Moss, Clara Martin; Stracca, Livio - 2003

This paper provides a simple weekly model of the regular supply of liquidity in the euro area, with a view to … understanding the functioning of the euro area money market. The main result of the analysis is that liquidity has normally been … deviations of the overnight rate from the main refinancing rate. Moreover the paper finds that liquidity has affected the …

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