Using a large sample of business-group-affiliated firms in India, we investigate whether corporate financial decisions that create internal capital markets are influenced by the extent of insider ownership. We hypothesize that insiders want to control more capital, motivated either by...

Die Kanadierin Maude Barlow plädiert hier dafür die Wasserversorgung weltweit in die öffentliche Hand zu legen oder sie dort zu belassen, um gegen Ungerechtigkeit bei der Wasserverteilung vorzugehen. Ausserdem prangert sie die Ausbeutung von Wasservorkommen durch Lebensmittelkonzerne an. (2-3)

On the last decades, European countries have increased their focus on local production systems as a matter of industrial policy measures. Based on the works related to industrial districts of Becatini (1989), Brusco (1990), Ybarra (1991 and 1996) and Dei Ottati (1994), or the later contributions...

Media outlets are increasingly owned by conglomerates, inducing a conflict of interest: a media outlet can bias its coverage to benefit companies in the same group. We test for bias by examining movie reviews by media outlets owned by News Corp.--such as the Wall Street Journal--and by Time...