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Bank mergers and acquisition and shareholders’ wealth maximization in Nigeria
Nwidobie Barine Michael - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 3, pp. 255-270
Banks operating in a regulated environment need to operate within the fiscal, monetary, political and legal regulations; customer tastes, habits and demand; and input supply changes. Changes in these require adjustments in the bank’s operations. Coping with these require finance and instant...
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The determinants of economic corruption : a probabilistic approach
Mohamed Abdel Rahman Salih - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 3, pp. 155-169
The determinants of corruption have been debated by economists and non-economists for the past few decades. However, no … consensus has been reached about the exact determinants of corruption and as well the direction of the effect of some the known … key variables used in corruption studies. Most previous studies exploit some sort of index as a measure of corruption. The …
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Study on the collusive corruption in supervision of bank credit
Nan, Xu-guang; Kao, Meng-chun - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 1, pp. 93-103
induces serious internal collusive corruption. This article analyzes the collusive corruption between credit supervisors and … ; collusive corruption ; supervision ; principal-agent …
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Corruption and firm performance : evidence from Greek firms
Athanasouli, Daphne; Goujard, Antoine; Sklias, Pantelis - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 5 (2012) 2, pp. 43-67
This article investigates the relationship between corruption and firm performance in Greece using firm level data …. Corruption is overall negatively associated with firm size and growth at the firm level. We focus on the effect of … ‘administrative corruption’, whereby firms engage in corrupt practices and bribery of government officials. We contrast the firm …
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¿Por qué el distanciamiento ideológico disminuye la provisión de bienes públicos? ; una explicación basada en el empleo clientelar
Gatica Arreola, Leonardo A. - In: Estudios de economía 39 (2012) 1, pp. 27-51
This paper presents a model of political competition to explore the effect that the ideological distance between two political parties has over the provision of public goods. The main result argues that the ideological distance between parties and citizens has a negative relationship with the...
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The role of trust in the resource allocation process of an old university
Manochin, Melina M. - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 1 (2008) 2, pp. 38-52
The issue of effective management accounting systems, and especially the resource allocation procedures, have attracted considerable interest among higher education institutions in recent years. Relevant previous research indicates that several universities adopt different approaches to the...
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Advertising bans
Motta, Massimo - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 1, pp. 61-81
I show that an advertising ban is more likely to increase — rather than decrease — total consumption when advertising does not bring about a large expansion of market demand at given prices and when it increases product differentiation (thus allowing firms to command higher prices). In this...
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Netzsituation in Deutschland bleibt stabil
Gerbaulet, Clemens; Kunz, Friedrich; Hirschhausen, … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 20/21, pp. 3-12
Auch im zweiten Jahr nach dem Kernkraftwerksmoratorium vom März 2011 bleibt die Lage im deutschen Stromübertragungsnetz stabil. Auch wenn die Realisierung einiger Ausbauprojekte um einige Jahre hinter dem ursprünglichen Zeitplan liegt, schreitet der Netzumbau kontinuierlich voran. Bei einigen...
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CCTS-Technologie ein Fehlschlag : Umdenken in der Energiewende notwendig
Hirschhausen, Christian von; Herold, Johannes; Oei, Pao-yu - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 6, pp. 3-9
In den kommenden zwei Jahrzehnten wird die CO2-Abscheidung auf dem deutschen Stromsektor keine Rolle spielen. Dies zeichnet sich spätestens seit der öffentlichen Bekanntgabe von Bundesumweltminister Norbert Röttgen vom 29. Oktober 2011 und der Absage des CCTS-Demonstrationsprojekts am...
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Geburten in Ost- und Westdeutschland : erleichtert eine hohe Risikobereitschaft die Entscheidung für ein Kind?
Schmitt, Christian - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 11, pp. 18-23
Die von wirtschaftlichen Umbrüchen geprägten Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung waren für viele Ostdeutsche mit zunehmender Unsicherheit verbunden, während die Veränderungen in Westdeutschland weitaus weniger gravierend waren. In der Folge kam es in den 90er Jahren zu einem massiven Rückgang...
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