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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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Who lost the most?

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Ziegelmeyer, Michael - 2011

We study how and to what extent private households are affected by the recent financial crisis and how their financial decisions are in uenced by this shock. Our analysis reveals that individuals with low levels of financial literacy are less likely to have invested in the stock market and thus...

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Study on the impact of marketing through social media, online games and mobile applications on children's behaviour : Final Report

Lupiáñez - Villanueva, Francisco (contributor); … - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2016

children are exposed to increasingly sophisticated marketing techniques online which are often outside the purview of existing … regulatory frameworks. This study aims to provide a better understanding of online marketing to children and to inform effective …-app purchases. The study finds that online marketing practices have an impact on children, and that children have difficulties …

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Report of the Ad Hoc EIFAC/EC Working Party on Market Perspectives for European Freshwater Aquaculture

Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Fischerei - 2001

situation of the freshwater aquaculture sector in the EIFAC region with particular focus on problems in marketing. The outcome … the marketing chain. The producers will remain at a disadvantage unless they develop better links through association or … cooperation. While the preparation and implementation of marketing plans is a responsibility of the industry, and must be financed …

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Mortgage indebtedness and household financial distress

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Lojschova, Adriana; … - 2010

Using comparable survey data from twelve European countries from 1994 to 2001 we investigate households’ attitudes towards mortgage indebtedness. We find that a given debt burden creates much higher distress in countries with fewer mortgage holders relative to countries where a significant...

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Wealth mobility and dynamics over entire individual working life cycles

Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2011

We study taxable wealth in unique Swedish administrative data, annually following a large sample of households over a period of almost 40 years. The main data limitation is non-observability of wealth for those below the tax exemption level. This implies that much of the focus of the paper is on...

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Behavioural characteristics and financial distress

McCarthy, Yvonne - 2011

Using a new nationally representative survey of financial capability and experience in the UK and Ireland, I investigate the key factors that cause individuals to experience financial distress. In this context, a key area that I focus on is whether individuals’ behavioural traits, such as...

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