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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Law and finance"”.
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Three Essays In Industrial Organization, Law And Finance
… empirical capital structure, U.S. politics, and corporate law: relationship-specific investment (RSI), contracting environment and financial performance; RSI, contracting environment and the choice of capital structure; and political value and SEC enforcement actions. Firms that engage in …
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Automatic Summarization of Financial Reports
… due to both the development of new algorithms and the increase of computational capacities. As a result, novel NLP techniques have been successfully applied in various fields such as medicine, law, and finance. Companies and corporations publish several financial reports and disclosures every …
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Tres ensayos sobre redes sociales y gobierno de la empresa
… analiza cuál ha sido su evolución, observando una pérdida de protagonismo de los bancos y la existencia de una red menos densa y más fragmentada en los últimos años. El segundo, partiendo del enfoque Law & Finance, recoge un análisis comparativo entre las redes de España y Reino Unido en …
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THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN INSTITUTIONS, FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT, BANKING PERFORMANCE, PRIVATIZATION, AND GROWTH
… twofold (1) analyze the impacts of institutions and private property rights on the banking industry, and (2) the effects of property rights, contracting rights and intellectual property rights concurrent to privatization of state owned enterprises on a wide range of industries. First, it uses a …
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Creditor rights, entrepreneurship, and productivity
The first essay, Creditor Rights and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Fraudulent Transfer Law, examines entrepreneurship following the adoption of modern-day fraudulent transfer laws in the United States. These laws remove the burden of proof from creditors attempting to claw back funds that were …
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The Evolution of Hedge Fund Activism: From Corporate Raiders to Sustainability Crusaders?
… recent phenomena: activist board representation and environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) activism. The thesis makes at least four important contributions to academic and policy debates on hedge fund activism. First, through analyzing original hand-collected data on activist hedge fund …
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Uncertainty in Debt Finance: Reconceptualising Material Adverse Change Clauses
From a legal and economic perspective, the global financial crisis, terrorist attacks, wars, natural catastrophes, and COVID-19 all have one thing in common: they potentially count as “material adverse change” events. Such events are typically unpredictable and have severe consequences for the …
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The architecture of the stock market accessibility and operational framework: what can an emerging market economy learn from the ‘international standards’ and the ‘best practice’ models of the US and UK?
… development of global stock markets has become standardised and increasingly linked to the philosophy of free markets, the top international private providers of equity indices (e.g. FTSE Russell, MSCI and S&P) have been working with market authorities to regularly determine the classification of …