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Essays on corporate financing
Ebert, Susanne - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009125768
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FDI, Mode of Entry and Corporate Governance
Talamo, Giuseppina - 2015
One of the most outstanding features of the trend toward globalization has been the increased importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows around the world. This study estimates the determinant of FDI flows using the gravity equation, controlling for the importance of both the traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037344
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Economic Growth and Corporate Governance Imperfections
D'Orio, Giovanni; Tsenova, Tsvetomira - 2011
This paper formally proves that economic outcomes are not independent from the corporate governance system and its ability to protect shareholders’ rights. This is achieved by extending a neoclassical growth model to incorporate an imperfectly functioning market for managerial labour enabling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176959
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Investor Protections and Economic Growth
Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim - 2009
Using objective measures of investor protections in 170 countries, I establish that the level of investor protection matters for cross-country differences in GDP growth: countries with stronger protections tend to grow faster than those with poor investor protections
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766527
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How Does Investors' Legal Protection Affect Productivity and Growth?
Hadad, Sharon - 2014
This paper analyzes the implications of investors' legal protection on aggregate productivity and growth. We have two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071119
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The heterogeneous growth effects of the business environment : firm-level evidence for a global sample of cities
Reyes, José-Daniel; Roberts, Mark; Xu, Lixin Colin - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 1 (2021) 1, pp. 15-28
institutional environment variables at the sub-national level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. We find basic …
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Does Source of Finance Matter for Microenterprise Productivity Growth in Ghana?
Osei-Assibey, Eric - 2010
small enterprises' (MSEs) productivity edge and growth. Using non-farm household enterprise data from Ghana, the study … higher productivity. However, awareness of appropriate sources, and access to a more formal finance, are found to be … associated with productivity edge. Having access to semi-formal and formal financial institutions do not only afford …
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Financial crisis, economic recovery and banking development in former Soviet Union economies
Marin, Dalia; Huang, Haizhou; Xu, Chenggang - 2002 - First Draft: September 2000, This Draft: September 2002
This paper provides a unified theory to explain the onset of the financial crisis in 1998 and the striking economic …
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Finance and Politics : A Review Essay Based on Kenneth Dam's Analysis of Legal Traditions in the Law-Growth Nexus
Roe, Mark J. - 2015
Strong financial markets are widely thought to propel economic development, with many in finance seeing legal tradition as fundamental to protecting investors sufficiently for finance to flourish. Kenneth Dam, in the Law-Growth Nexus, finds that the legal tradition view inaccurately portrays how...
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The Fallacy of Adjusting Valuation for Growth and Inflation
Booth, Richard A. - 2016
It has become almost standard practice in Delaware appraisal proceedings for the courts to adjust discount rates downward by the projected rate of inflation and GDP growth so as to reflect the prospect of higher future returns because of these factors. Since the value of a business varies...
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