Search Results - subject:"Geographical proximity"

Investors in Private Equity Funds : Theory, Preferences and Performances

Hobohm, Daniel - 2010

Daniel Hobohm analyses more than 17 000 investments by more than 1800 international investors in more than 2400 private equity and venture capital funds over the last two decades. He compares different investor types in their fund preferences, home bias and investor responses to market shocks....

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Distance and international banking

Buch, Claudia M. - 2001

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Cross-border bank mergers: what lures the rare animal?

Buch, Claudia M.; DeLong, Gayle L. - 2001

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Distance and international banking

Buch, Claudia M. - 2001

If the technological revolution which has taken place over the past decades has lowered information costs and if information costs increase in distance, distance should - ceteris paribus - become less important in determining international bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and...

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Cross-border bank mergers : what lures the rare animal?

Buch, Claudia M.; DeLong, Gayle L. - 2001

Although domestic mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the financial services industry have increased steadily over the past two decades, international M&As were relatively rare until recently. This paper uses a novel dataset of over 2,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyse...

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Economics discussion papers

University of Otago / Department of Economics - Dunedin : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar] - Nachgewiesen 2001 -

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Proximity economics and environment: assessment and prospects

Torre, Andre; Zuindeau, Bertrand - In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 52 (2009) 1, pp. 1-24

directions concerning the respective roles of geographical proximity and organised proximity in the production and management of … environmental problems. First, it deals with the topic of 'geographical proximity and land-use conflicts', a topic that is currently … on the roles of geographical proximity as a mode of regulation of environmental problems, and on the possible role of …

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Proximity and Innovation through an 'Accessibility to Knowledge' Lens

Massard, Nadine; Mehier, Caroline - In: Regional Studies 43 (2009) 1, pp. 77-88

Massard N. and Mehier C. Proximity and innovation through an 'accessibility to knowledge' lens, Regional Studies. The aim of this paper is to improve understanding of the spatial diffusion process of knowledge in terms of accessibility, and also to elaborate a new measurement and evaluation...

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Why, Where and With Whom Do You Link? The Nature and Motivations of Linkages Within and Outside an Italian Local System

Sacchetti, Silvia - In: Regional Studies 43 (2009) 2, pp. 197-209

Sacchetti S. Why, where and with whom do you link? The nature and motivations of linkages within and outside an Italian local system, Regional Studies. Building on the work of Richardson (1972) and on the need of firms to coordinate activities with others in search for related yet different...

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Proximity Preference in M&A Transactions

Grote, Michael H. - 2009

This paper shows that acquirers have a strong and consistent preference for spatially close target companies. We measure proximity preference against benchmark portfolios of hypothetical targets for each deal, using data from US domestic mergers and acquisitions transactions. With increasing...

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