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The paper deals with selected issues prevalent in the environment of regulated gas distribution. Regulation which …
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sector in 38 countries for the period 1977-97 shows that regulation is a crucial institutional variable in privatisation. Not …
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The paper analyzes Information Technology (IT) governance disclosure on a sample of the major 20 EU banks (from Italy, Germany, France and Spain) to observe if, how and where banks report on their IT governance issues. Since IT governance (like other aspects of banking business) can be...
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This study illustrates how information from micro-level and survey-based databases can be used, along with macroeconomic indicators, to provide a better understanding of corporates' investment obstacles. We investigate impediments to corporate investment across the EU. We use a novel dataset...
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We study the effect of state control on capital allocation and investment in China, where the government screens prospective stock issuers. We find that state firms are more likely to obtain government approval to conduct seasoned equity offerings than non-state firms. Further, non-state firms...
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We study shareholder support for corporate board nominees before and after the 2018 California gender quota. Pre-quota, new female nominees received greater support than new male nominees, consistent with women being held to a higher standard. Post-quota, as the number of women increased,...
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offering ; regulation …
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At a time of such great turbulence, looking to the future directions of capital markets and their regulation in … current, and readily observable, phenomena which are likely to shape capital markets regulation in the near future. First of … for what may be the somewhat indiscriminate widening of the “perimeter” of regulation; costs of compliance mount …
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Excessive risk taking due to a flawed remuneration design is widely regarded as the cause of the recent Financial Crisis. This article endeavours to examine the problem from a legal and economic perspective. A remuneration package should reward managers for successfully advancing the interests...
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