This paper investigates the actual performance of 2,895 Initial Public Offerings of companies that were backed by venture capital from 1968 through 1998. It seeks to refute the myth that investors demand very high annualized and cumulative rates of return to compensate for the risks they are...

Money laundering, which is closely linked with tax evasion and informal trade, is facilitated by the poorly regulated financial institutions of "mafia nations". These nations make billions of dollars by laundering money and giving safe haven to drug dealers and corrupt politicians, allowing them...

Money laundering, which is closely linked with tax evasion and informal trade, is facilitated by the poorly regulated financial institutions of mafia nations." These nations make billions of dollars by laundering money and giving safe haven to drug dealers and corrupt politicians, allowing them...

This paper investigates the actual performance of 2,895 Initial Public Offerings of companies that were backed by venture capital from 1968 through 1998. It seeks to refute the myth that investors demand very high annualized and cumulative rates of return to compensate for the risks they are...

Incredible profits from Initial Public Offerings have been highly emphasized. This paper refutes these profits as being standard and supports the market’s return to normalcy by stratifying annual and cumulative returns for different industries: Biotechnology; Communications; Computer Related...

This paper investigates the actual performance of 2,895 Initial Public Offerings of companies that were backed by venture capital from 1968 through 1998. It seeks to refute the myth that investors demand very high annualized and cumulative rates of return to compensate for the risks they are...

Money laundering, which is closely linked with tax evasion and informal trade, is facilitated by the poorly regulated financial institutions of mafia nations.ʺ These nations make billions of dollars by laundering money and giving safe haven to drug dealers and corrupt politicians, allowing them...

Incredible profits from Initial Public Offerings have been highly emphasized. This paper refutes these profits as being standard and supports the market's return to normalcy by stratifying annual and cumulative returns for different industries: Biotechnology; Communications; Computer Related...

At first blush, the phrase “a statement respecting the debtor's . . . financial condition,” the linchpin of § 523(A)(2)(A) and (B) of the Bankruptcy Code (“Code”), seems an unlikely agent of judicial discord. Yet, with no denotation set in either § 523 or § 101, federal courts have...

Enjoying an “uneasy coexistence,” the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods (“CISG”) and the Uniform Commercial Code (“UCC”) converge in some details. Yet, regardless of their many similarities, CISG and the UCC are not wholly alike in certain key requirements...