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The so-called "sovereign wealth funds": regulatory issues, financial stability and prudential supervision
Mezzacapo, Simone - Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs, … - 2009
This paper studies the regulatory issues related to the “Sovereign Wealth Funds†(SWFs), described as “special purpose†government investment vehicles. Concerns have been expressed due to SWFs limited disclosure and transparency and their multiple investment objectives. While...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008635816
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Informational Externalities and Settlements in Mass Tort Litigations
Deffains, Bruno; Langlais, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper elaborates on a basic model of mass tort litigation, highlighting the existence of positive informational externalities afforded by the discovery process (as a general technology of production of evidences) in order to study when a class action is formed, or when a sequence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587826
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Shell Oil Company in Nigeria: Impediment or Catalyst of Socio-Economic Development?
Kingston, Kato Gogo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the She oil company, through investment and crude oil exploration, benefits socio-economic growth in Nigeria in general and in the Niger Delta of Nigeria in particular. In 1998, the United Nations Special Rapporteur's report on Nigeria accused...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835337
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Towards Patent Pools in Biotechnology?
Gaulé, Patrick - Chaire en Économie et Management de l'Innovation … - 2006
property as a package) could be used as an institution to facilitate technology transactions in biotechnology. Patent pools … have been used with success in the consumer electronics and other sectors but they are untested in biotechnology despite … this industry. The first is that the current antitrust requirements are difficult to meet in biotechnology. The second is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984625
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A Synthesis of Recent Advances in the Economics of Entrepreneurship and Industrial Organisation from the Perspective of Competition Policy
Burke, Andrew E - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1996
have focused on the competitive process, namely the economics of industrial organisation and entrepreneurship. These differ … at two important levels. In the first instance, the literature on entrepreneurship is almost exclusively concerned with … entrepreneurship mainly focuses on the suply of enterprise. This paper conducts a survey of these two literatures from the perspective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005807940
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Merger policy, entry, and entrepreneurship
Mason, Robin; Weeds, Helen - In: European Economic Review 57 (2013) C, pp. 23-38
We assess the impact of merger policy on entry and entrepreneurship. When faced with uncertainty about its prospects …
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Where Do Firms Incorporate?
Becht, Marco; Mayer, Colin; Wagner, Hannes - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Over the last few years, a series of rulings by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has opened up the European Union to cross-border mobility in incorporation. In this paper we explore how deregulation and the costs of regulation have affected the location decisions of firms. Using a newly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666497
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Measuring the Effect of Bankruptcy Laws on Entrepreneurship Across Countries
Cumming, Douglas J. - In: Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance 16 (2012) 1, pp. 80-86
entrepreneurship to personal bankruptcy law. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762501
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Law and Corruption in Venture Capital and Private Equity
Cumming, Douglas; Fleming, Grant; Johan, Sofia; Najar, Dorra - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2013
This chapter summarizes recent research on the role of law, culture and corruption on venture capital (VC) fund structure, governance and performance. Evidence from studies that involve a multitude of countries is primarily considered. The evidence across most studies is broadly consistent with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010708702
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Public policy, entrepreneurship, and venture capital in the United States
Cumming, Douglas; Li, Dan - In: Journal of Corporate Finance 23 (2013) C, pp. 345-367
This paper empirically examines business starts, deaths, venture capital and patents in relation to U.S. public policy. The most consistent evidence in the data shows that lower levels of labor frictions and higher levels of SBIR awards are associated with more business starts and higher levels...
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