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Corporate governance aims to reduce expropriation of investors by managers. This thesis identifies and empirically examines three corporate governance mechanisms: cross-listing in the United States, close bank-firm relationships in Germany and corporate ownership structure in an emerging market....

Verslo ciklų sinchronizacijos reiškinio atpažinimas socialiniuose moksluose paskatino daugelio skirtingų sričių tyrėjų (fizikų, ekonofizikų, ekonomistų) domėjimąsi šiuo fenomenu. Kokie aplinkos veiksniai lemia šalių verslo ciklų sinchronizaciją ir kaip įvertinti šių...

Recognition of the business cycle synchronization phenomenon in social science fostered a number of researchers from different areas (physics, econophysics, economics) to take interest in this phenomenon. Which environmental determinants influence the country’s business cycle synchronization...

This dissertation concerns cross-country consumption risk sharing in a long-run perspective. Financial integration, empirically measured by cross-country holdings of assets and liabilities, has increased dramatically in the past two decades. But what can explain the lack of cross-country risk...

In the past three decades the stock of assets and liabilities of developingcountries measured as a ratio of GDP has tripled. It is commonly believed that anincrease in opportunities for diversifying risk allows more consumption smoothing.However, the data show that volatility of consumption in...

This dissertation consists of three essays in international economics. The first chapter investigates whether opening up to international financial flows improves aggregate productivity in the presence of limited contract enforceability. I present a model of two countries that differ in terms of...

This thesis deals with the relationship between no-arbitrage and (strictly) consistent price processes for a financial market with proportional transaction costs in a discrete time model. The exact mathematical statement behind this relationship is formulated in the so-called Fundamental Theorem...

Retail centres are a visible sign of developed capitalist societies and make an appreciable contribution to these economies. For the firms involved in supplying air conditioning maintenance to retail centres, governance structures (that incorporate the make-or-buy decision and the decision...

The work presented here is part of a wider research programme oriented around three specific questions. First, how do individual agents appropriate returns from innovation and how is this affected by the availability (or not) of intellectual property rights such as copyrights and patents?...