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Workshop "The Impact of the Crisis on SMEs", Brussels, 1 February 2010

Saraiva, António; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Nowak, Maria - 2010

A workshop on the "The Impact of the Crisis on SMEs" was held in the European Parliament in Brussels on 1 February 2010. This document contains the programme, presentations and proceedings of that workshop.

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Managing household debts : social service provision in the EU ; Workshop report - Brussels, 25 June 2010

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and … - 2010

Overall, household debt levels have risen sharply over the past decades in EU Member States. While certain levels of household debts can be beneficial, they can become problematic especially with a sudden, unexpected decrease of incomes or increase of expenditures. The current financial crisis...

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Investment Styles, Fees, & Returns Among Individually Managed & Team Managed Mutual Funds

Cehanowicz, Kendal - 2011

determine investment returns. Studies have shown that team managed mutual funds exhibit similar risk adjusted performance to … study provides an examination of team managed and individually managed mutual funds with given investment styles on the … basis of fees and overall returns. This study finds empirical evidence that team management has a significant negative …

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Can We All Get Along? Incentive Contracts to Bridge the Marketing and Operations Divide

Jerath, Kinshuk; Netessine, Serguei; Zhang, Z. John - 2007

The marketing and operations management arms in a firm must work in coordination – marketing efforts to create demand go to waste if supply is suboptimal, and vice versa. However, achieving this coordination has remained a long-standing problem, because in most firms these units are managed in...

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Accounting Recognition, Moral Hazard, and Communication

Liang, Pierre Jinghong - 2000

Two complementary sources of information are studied in a multiperiod agency model. One is an accounting source which partially but credibly conveys the agent’s private information through accounting recognition. The other is an unverified communication by the agent (i.e., a self-report). In a...

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Agency Trade-offs in Family Firms: Theoretical Model, Empirical Testing and Implications

Yupitun, Mark Anson - 2008

Agency theory is one of the principal frameworks utilized in explaining the family business phenomena. The objectives of this dissertation are to (1) identify the unique agent-principal dynamics that differentiate family firms from non-family firms, (2) determine the effects of these unique...

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Agency differences in professional family businesses: the known and the unknown

Moores, Ken; Craig, Justin B. - 2008

We suggest in this paper one of the reasons that researchers concur agency costs in family firms are more complex than originally thought maybe related to the lack of conceptual clarity. This, we propose, is because when frameworks and theories are borrowed and enthusiastically embraced without...

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Structural Reform and Firm Profitability in Developing Countries

Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro; Dau, Luis Alfonso - 2008

We extend agency theory to propose that structural reform positively impacts firm profitability in developing countries because the improvements in external monitoring that accompany structural reform decrease the agency costs faced by firms. However, we also argue that not all firms benefit...

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The Effect of Governance on Credit Decisions and Perceptions of Reporting Reliability

Holder-Webb, Lori; Sharma, Divesh S. - 2010

We conduct an experiment to examine how lending decisions are affected by lender perceptions of reporting and governance quality. We perform a set of experiments to determine whether lenders are sensitive to the quality of governance as measured by board composition along multiple dimensions,...

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Die Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise - Teil II : Präsentationen

Voß, Stefan; Müller, Alfred - 2011

Präsentationen zu <a href="http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus-3379">Die Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise mit …

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