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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: CHALLENGES FOR LATIN AMERICA
LEFORT, FERNANDO; WALKER, EDUARDO - In: Abante 2 (2000) 2, pp. 99-111
Corporate Governance relates to mechanisms through which providers of resources to the firm get their share of resources in return. Adequate governance practices help develop capital markets and assist market forces in attaining efficient contracts. Convincing evidence exists that well developed...
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Investing and Pretending
Krug, Anita K. - 2017
One of the more prominent components of Dodd-Frank's regulatory changes was Title VII, providing for the regulation of the over-the-counter derivatives known as swaps. Although there was much ado about that regulation immediately after Dodd-Frank's enactment, the same cannot be said of the many...
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Egalitarianism and International Investment
Siegel, Jordan I. - 2011
different types of international investment flows. A society's cultural orientation toward egalitarianism is manifested by … influence of egalitarianism distance on cross-national investment flows of bond and equity issuances, syndicated loans, and … its effect on international investment via an associated set of consistent contemporary policy choices. But even after …
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Participatory Decision Making: A Field Experiment on Manipulating the Votes
Spada, Paolo; Vreeland, Raymond - 2010
Many believe that deliberative democracy, where individuals discuss alternatives before voting on them, should result in collectively superior outcomes because voters become better informed and decisions are justified using reason. These deliberations typically involve a moderator, however,...
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Participatory decision making : a field experiment on manipulating the votes
Spada, Paolo; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2010
Many believe that deliberative democracy, where individuals discuss alternatives before voting on them, should result in collectively superior outcomes because voters become better informed and decisions are justified using reason. These deliberations typically involve a moderator, however,...
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The Mechanisms of Voting Efficiency
Schouten, Michael C. - 2011
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Shareholder Engagement and Stewardship : The Realities and Illusions of Institutional Share Ownership
Winter, Jaap W. - 2011
investment practices based on modern portfolio theory, diversification, prudency and solvency rules, intermediation through asset … of institutional investment. Measures suggested by the European Commission in its Green Paper on Governance of Listed …
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Corporate Governance, Cross-Border Voting and the Securities Law Directive – Enhancing Investor Engagement through Standardization
Strenger, Christian - 2012
This paper analyzes recent developments with respect to institutional investors and cross-border voting. Based on a cross-country comparison of more than 20 countries we show that the recently enhanced regulation imposes an implicit duty to vote on institutional investors. This implicit duty...
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Dodd-Frank, Securitization, and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
Hoffman, Stephen P. - 2013
There are few things more constant in life than the rise and fall of financial markets. When markets crash, however, we are forced to restore them while learning from our mistakes. In the wake of the recent subprime mortgage crisis, Congress has drastically but deservedly overhauled the...
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