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We present the first broadly representative study for any early twentieth century economy of the extent to which quoted company ownership was already divorced from managerial control. In the 337 largest, independent, UK companies in the Investor's Year Book (those with £1m or more share capital...
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cost of debt, subject to limitations on risk. The Bank of Canada provides debt-management analysis and advice to the …
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Relevant literature on asset-liability management (ALM) is reviewed and different ALM approaches are discussed that may … attention is paid to central bank reserves management. Ideas and suggestions are offered for future research on the ALM …
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This paper examines how managers at the top of a public institution, central bank executives, allocate their working time. Using detailed information from personal diaries of the six members of the European Central Bank’s Executive Board over a period of two years, we codify and analyze more...
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Management in der Krise über bestimmte Kompetenzen verfügen, die entlang des Krisenverlaufs unterschiedliche Ausprägungen …
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During the early 1990s Germany offered temporary protection to over 600,000 Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many had been repatriated. We exploit this natural experiment to investigate the role of migrants in post-conflict reconstruction in the former Yugoslavia, using exports as...
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This paper examines the management practices of German firms with obligations under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU …. The paper sheds light on management and trading practices, abatement behaviour, and the impact of the EU ETS on long …-term decisions, such as investment decisions or innovative capacity. The aim is to provide information on firm-internal management …
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In this paper we account for observed management practice in the estimation of aproduction function. In our model … management practice is observable and we allow it toaffect output directly (neutral shift) and indirectly by affecting input … (in)efficiency do not correlate highly with observedmanagement. We also find that management affects output both directly …
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We propose a model of production where technical change is both time and management induced. We define a general … management index in addition to the general time index of Baltagi and Griffin (1988) and use them as arguments in the translog … productionfunction. Time and management induced technical change are then defined interms of these general indices. For comparison, we …
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The general attitude towards the sustainable management of environmental resources is evolving towards the … management of water resources in seven Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Watersheds. The methodology is based on the development …
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