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The venture capital certification role in R&D: Evidence from IPO underpricing in Korea
Cho, Jaemin; Lee, Jaeho - In: Pacific-Basin Finance Journal 23 (2013) C, pp. 83-108
During the last two decades, a number of studies have documented how initial public offerings (IPOs) of equity often exhibit underpricing; such studies have also attempted to identify the reasons for this underpricing phenomenon. Utilizing information asymmetry theory and signaling theory, many...
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Der Wertpapierprospekt: empirische Befunde zur Qualität der Risikoangaben bei Neuemissionen
Henselmann, Klaus; Klein, Martin; Maier, Christian - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The paper analyzes the risk disclosure quality in the prospectus of IPOs in Germany between 2006 and 2008. Quality of risk information is measured as precision and comprehensibility. The relationship between risk disclosure quality and earnings power is tested.
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Fraud and free riding in tropical forests – on the potential for certification to enforce sustainable resource use indirectly
Lippert, Christian - In: German Journal of Agricultural Economics 58 (2009) 3
Certification schemes for forest products are understood by many as a way to promote sustainable resource use when it is impossible to rely on direct enforcement of process standards. Based on the concept of ‘Self-Enforcing Contracts’, this study develops a market model that simulates the...
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Die Reputation der Fleischwirtschaft: eine Kausalanalyse
Albersmeier, Friederike; Spiller, Achim - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 59 (2010) 4
Arbeit die Reputation der Fleischwirtschaft umfassend untersucht. Unter Verwendung der Partial Least Squares Methode (PLS …) von untergeordneter Relevanz sind. Die Analysen verdeutlichen die große Bedeutung der Reputation zur Erklärung … vegetarians in the population. In order to investigate the extent of these difficulties, this study analyses the reputation of the …
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Monetary target announcements, reputation and hysteresis
Grüner, Hans Peter - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz - 1994
on the results of the repeated monetary policy game. Disciplinary effects of reputation disappear in presence of …
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Insuring the uninsurable: brokers and incomplete insurance contracts
Doherty, Neil A.; Muermann, Alexander - Center for Financial Studies - 2005
How do markets spread risk when events are unknown or unknowable and where not anticipated in an insurance contract? While the policyholder can hold up the insurer for extra contractual payments, the continuing gains from trade on a single contract are often too small to yield useful coverage....
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Linking reputations through umbrella branding
Miklós-Thal, Jeanine - In: Quantitative Marketing and Economics 10 (2012) 3, pp. 335-374
This paper develops a theory of umbrella branding as a way to link the reputations of otherwise unrelated products. The analysis predicts that umbrella branding can credibly signal positive correlation between the qualities of the included products to consumers, but cannot certify high quality...
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Explicit inflation targets and central bank independence: friends or foes?
Hallett, Andrew; Libich, Jan - In: Economic Change and Restructuring 45 (2012) 4, pp. 271-297
The paper studies the relationship between two institutional innovations in monetary policy of the past few decades: central bank independence (CBI) and explicit inflation targeting (EIT). The aim is to make inferences about the optimal institutional design of monetary policy, and the right...
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Do watching eyes affect charitable giving? Evidence from a field experiment
Ekström, Mathias - In: Experimental Economics 15 (2012) 3, pp. 530-546
store. This result gives further support to the conclusion that subtle social cues can invoke reputation concerns in humans …
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The value of a good reputation online: an application to art auctions
Canals-Cerdá, José - In: Journal of Cultural Economics 36 (2012) 1, pp. 67-85
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