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The ability to learn from experience is central to an organization’s performance. A set of qualitative management studies argues that learning from failure is the exception rather than the rule. Another literature, using econometric methods, finds strongly statistically - and economically -...
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Some commentators suggest that mandatory personal liability of professionals for liabilities of their firms is appropriate in light of professionals' role in Enron and other recent frauds. This liability can, indeed, help ensure that professional firms deliver on their obligations to monitor...
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In a globalised world, complicated and diverse interdependencies determine the everyday life of intra- and internationally operating companies. If a company enters a crisis, the clarification of legal issues involving reorganization, restructuring and insolvency advisors is often very complex...
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We construct a unique data set from succession and bankruptcy sales in Mauritius to investigate the determinants of slave prices between 1825 and 1827. We find that males, females sold with children, skilled slaves and slaves sold during the peak sugar cane harvest season all fetched higher...
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After the U.S. declared COVID-19 a pandemic, cracks in the U.S.’s fragile privatized healthcare system were exposed. At the start of the pandemic, 74 million U.S. residents were already uninsured or underinsured. To date, over 7.7 million recently terminated employees have lost their...
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This paper aims at providing a framework to investigate the effects of marketing-related decisions on firms after filing for bankruptcy. The proposed framework includes advertising and R&D assets, channel intensity, related diversification, and low price strategy as the marketing decision, which...
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We employ a proprietary transaction-level dataset in Germany to examine how capital requirements affect the liquidity … gap - aggregate liquidity declines. Our results are stronger for banks with a higher capital shortfall, for non …
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Agency mortgage backed securities are fixed income securities that entitle the owner to principal and interest payments on underlying residential mortgages that are guaranteed by government-sponsored enterprises or government agencies
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This paper proposes a positive theory of the link between banks’ capitalisation and their liquidity-risk taking as well … as the severity of fire-sale problems and liquidity crises. In the basic framework of an individual bank’s decisions, we … find that banks’ incentives to hold liquidity for precautionary reason are increasing with their capital. In a continuum …
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The study was designed to examine the relationship between turnaround management strategy and profitability in the distressed Nigerian Textile Manufacturing Industry. The industry that in the past employed over 160,00 workers directly and millions indirectly in the cotton farms can now hardly...
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