Despite the recent financial crisis and widespread mergers in the banking industry, the German financial sector remains largely unchanged in one respect: the percentage of women on the corporate boards of Germany's banks and insurance companies was nearly as low in 2010 as in the pre-crisis...

Trotz Fusionen und Finanzkrise hat sich im Finanzsektor wenig geändert: Der Frauenanteil in den Spitzengremien der großen Banken und Versicherungen in Deutschland blieb auch 2010 auf einem extrem niedrigen Niveau. Innovationspotentiale, die sich aus einer deutlichen Erhöhung des Frauenanteils...

Przedsiębiorstwa państwowe są i prawdopodobnie nadal pozostaną istotnym elementem współczesnych systemów gospodarczych, szczególnie w krajach postsocjalistycznych oraz rozwijających się. Analiza istniejących w różnych krajach zasad funkcjonowania sektora przedsiębiorstw...

The study assesses the key challenges and opportunities for securitization of public assets as a way to foster investment in the infrastructure sector in Brazil and to improve the domestic capital market. The securitization of public assets offers advantages for public financing of...

This study was prepared by Andreas Kuhlmann, while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2006 and was accepted as a Ph.D. thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich. The subject of this study is the analysis of network...

State-owned and other state-invested enterprises (SIEs) have become more prominent in the global economy over the last decade. A growing role for state-invested enterprises in the marketplace is not in itself onerous. According to an OECD consensus, as expressed through the Organisation’s...

The study assesses the key challenges and opportunities for securitization of public assets as a way to foster investment in the infrastructure sector in Brazil and to improve the domestic capital market. The securitization of public assets offers advantages for public financing of...

We analyze the profitability of government-owned banks' lending to their owners, using a unique data set of relatively homogeneous government-owned banks; the banks are all owned by similarly structured local governments in a single country. Making use of a natural experiment that altered the...

In May, 2000, the Companies and Securities Advisory committee published its Corporate Groups Final Report. One of the report's objectives was to determine whether further safeguards were needed for those dealing with corporate groups, namely, minority shareholders and outsiders, including...