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Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

As well as consolidating on the existing literature on fair value accounting, by way of reference to jurisdictional analyses which include a focus on China, Japan, Brazil, and South Africa, this paper not only highlights why there is need for a re-think of the use of fair values as the primary...

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The role of external auditors in corporate governance: agency problems and the management of risk

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper not only recommends means whereby principal-agent problems could be addressed, but also considers various ways in which the external auditor and audit committees contribute as corporate governance tools. The impact of bank regulations on risk taking and the need for a consideration of...

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Governance, Regulation and Innovation: Introducing New Studies

Ugur, Mehmet - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We introduce new studies that argue in favour of: (i) according a central role to governance and regulation as … potential determinants of innovation; and (ii) analysing the effects of governance and regulation on innovation in conjunction … Greenwich in September 2011 and will be published as an edited book titled Governance, Regulation and Innovation: Theory and …

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The role of external auditors in corporate governance: agency problems and the management of risk

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

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A tale of three countries, dispersed ownership and greater risk taking levels by management: risk monitoring tools in bank regulation and supervision – developments since the colla...

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper is aimed at explaining why higher concentrations of the ownership of large firms do not necessarily and automatically facilitate lower risk taking levels – where there is scope for the abuse of powers. As well as illustrating why effective corporate governance systems are essential...

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International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring: corporate governance and internal controls

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

will also attempt to demonstrate that it is possible to implement a system of regulation which combines increased …

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Growth, profitability and savings of quoted public limited companies 1964-70

Amjad, Rashid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1973

This study by extending an earlier study by Haq and Baqai (1967) on growth, profitability and savings of companies quoted on the Karachi Stock Exchange analysis movements of these key variables and identifies key factors and events which explain them for the entire period of the 1960s.

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A Practical Guide to the Assessment of the Vulnerability of the Non-Financial Private Sector

Mario, Cuevas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The paper proposes a practical guide to the evaluation of the financial and non-financial vulnerability of the private sector (excluding financial entities). It describes step by step the sequence of issues that should be examined to assess the level of vulnerability of the private sector,...

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Is Google the next Microsoft? Competition, Welfare and Regulation in Internet Search

Pollock, Rufus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Internet search (or perhaps more accurately `web-search') has grown exponentially over the last decade at an even more rapid rate than the Internet itself. Starting from nothing in the 1990s, today search is a multi-billion dollar business. Search engine providers such as Google and Yahoo! have...

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Regulatory Approaches to NGNs: An International Comparison

Marcus, J. Scott; Elixmann, Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The emergence of Next Generation Networks (NGNs) raises profound challenges for regulators everywhere. Different regulatory authorities have approached these problems in strikingly different ways, depending in part on the overall regulatory milieu in which they operate, and in part on the nature...

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