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Johnson, McMillan and Woodruff (2002) examine the relative importance of property rights and external finance in several Eastern European countries, and find property rights to be overwhelmingly important, while external finance explains very little of firm reinvestment. McMillan and Woodruff...
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This would seem an opportune moment to reshape banking systems in the Americas. But any effort to rethink and improve banking must acknowledge three major barriers. The first is a crisis of vision: there has been too little consideration of what kind of banking system would work best for...
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This would seem an opportune moment to reshape banking systems in the Americas. But any effort to rethink and improve banking must acknowledge three major barriers. The first is a crisis of vision: there has been too little consideration of what kind of banking system would work best for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542712
This paper examines how private equity returns in Asia are related to levels of legal protection and corruption. We utilize a unique data set comprising over 750 returns to private equity transactions across 20 developing and developed countries in Asia. The data indicate that legal protections...
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's the story of the influence the field of law and economics has had on the domain of law and accounting. That influence …, accounting standard setting, state corporation law, and financial auditing. Affected areas include the nature of disclosure, the … users of ideas to take care to appreciate the limits of theory when shaping practice. That's vital since the effects of law …
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This article continues what has now become a comprehensive series examining the new U.S. reporting and withholding system for foreign account tax compliance. Part VI provides a new four-point analysis to determine if an FFI or USFI has a withholding tax liability for pass-through payments under...
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. But this need not be so. Using California consumer credit law as a backdrop, this Note argues that the doctrine of …—including debtors—to assert unconscionability under the State's Unfair Competition Law. Finally, this Note argues that unconscionability … common law, even absent statutory authorization …
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This paper discusses the treatment of Ocwen Financial Corp by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) since 2012 and also examines the actions of private investors. The paper suggests that the CFPB has been overly harsh in its treatment of Ocwen, both measured by the amount of fines and...
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The standard economic approach to considering the effects of a policy tends to neglect the prospect of regulatory ambiguity. I describe four sources of regulatory ambiguity and survey the literature considering the effects of ambiguity on entrepreneurial activity. I also explain how...
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