Foreword -- Executive Summary -- The importance of institutional investors in promoting good governance -- The Latin American context -- Recommendations to strengthen policy and good practices -- Additional steps: strengthening market forces -- Bibliography

We integrate international business theory on foreign direct investment (FDI) with institutional theory on intellectual property rights (IPR) to explain characteristics and behaviour of foreign investment subsidiaries in Central East Europe, a region with an IPR regimegap visàvis West European...

In the light of the recent financial crisis, the discussion on the nature of runs and on the stabilizing role of liquidity holdings has intensified. This paper explores the cash management conducted by German open-end equity funds for the period between 2005 and 2010. Since ownership structures...