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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"investment bank"”.
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Sources of competitive advantages of local firms in relation to global firms in emerging economies : a South African investment banking sector perspective
The competition between local and global investment banks in South Africa has increased with the global players increasing focus on emerging markets. If the assumption that global investment banks have better skills and technology is true, the increased focus should create a change in market share …
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Crossing the Energy Efficiency Chasm: An Assessment of the Barriers to Institutional Investment at Scale
… would need to exist to attract institutional investment in energy efficiency at scale. The UK Green Investment Bank has invested £50m into three energy efficiency funds, requiring each fund manager to match the amount by attracting investment from institutional investors. It is these funds …
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An investigation of the determinants of private investment: the case of Botswana
Private investment in Botswana as well as a ratio to Gross Domestic Product has been falling in some periods of 1976-2003. Viewed against the background of growing evidence of a link between investment and economic growth, an inconsistent and downward trend in Botswana's private investment is a …
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Engineering financial safety : a system-theoretic case study from the financial crisis
… led to the collapse and rapid acquisition of the investment bank Bear Stearns in March 2008. It seeks to illustrate the technological and regulatory change that provided the context for the Bear Stearns accidents and then demonstrates how a top-down systematic method of analysis can produce more …
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Strategic challenges of the Japanese investment banking industry
… able to keep up with the progress of the global investment banking industry. During this period, foreign investment banks have grown rapidly, diversified the coverage of business, and expanded to the global market. Japanese investment banks were first developed in the late 1990s, after the "lost …
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The 2008 Global Economic Crisis: Mechanisms of Impacts and Responses in Banks in Tanzania
The thesis explored the mechanisms through which banks in Tanzania were affected by the 2008 global economic crisis and the way they responded to the same. The Bank of Tanzania (BoT), Barclays Bank Tanzania Ltd and Tanzania Investment Bank (TIB) were taken as case studies. Secondary and primary …
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Risk, Reputation, and Interdependence in the Market for Initial Public Offerings: Embedded Networks and the Construction of Organization Value
… bases of markets as a given and examines how investment banks, acting as transaction intermediaries, use their reputations and networks of relationships with institutional investors and venture capitalists to influence transaction outcomes among buying and selling organizations in the market …
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The Japanese Financial Diplomacy in the Globalising International Financial Regime
… its membership to the AIIB (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank). While the regional framework of financial cooperation could be supplementary to the global framework, the forces of globalisation of financial markets are becoming greater and expected to continue to do. Japanese financial …
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Implications of investment banks’ reputation and specialisation on initial public offerings and corporate takeovers
This research thesis examines the implications of investment bank reputation and specialisation on the outcomes of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offering (IPO) settings. With regards to M&A settings, we study the impact of top-tier and boutique investment banks acting as …
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New risks of interdependence in shifting world order – Developing a sustainable risk framework for the Belt and Road
… by the emergence of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. In this case, China has contributed a new institution, challenging US leadership of global finance yet seeking reform rather than revolution to address the needs of the developing world. More transparency about bilateral Chinese …
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Modelling the actuarial projection and valuation of the Egyptian social security pension system
… rates on the invested funds from the National Investment Bank (NIB). The second is a transfer from the Treasury to shoulder the actuarial deficit alongside the annual subsidy given to improve the level of benefits. This strategy raises four very important questions. The first is whether the …
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Banking on the environment : multilateral development banks and environmental policymaking in Central and Eastern Europe
… study of three multilateral development banks (MDBs)-the World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and European Investment Bank (EIB)-and their struggles to operationalize and implement relatively new environmental mandates. MDBs are increasingly being relied …
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Essays On Ipo Cycles And Windows Of Opportunity
… by the increased market share of low quality investment in hot IPO markets. Since low-quality investment banks are less able to identify and screen out busted, or failed, IPOs, increased participation of low-quality investment bank will lower the screening standard of IPO market during …
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Information risk, uncertainty risk and asset prices
… on connections between mutual fund managers and investment banks via managers' past working experience. We find mutual fund managers show significant stock picking skills on firms which are the long-term clients of the investment banks for which the managers formerly work. Managers perform …
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The timing of initial public offerings and the role of investment banks
… public offerings (IPOs) and the role therein, of investment banks, in taking firms public. Most prior studies of IPOs and seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) investigate timing with respect to firm-specific or economy-wide conditions. Also, the vast majority of prior studies have apparently ignored …
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The conceptual framework for financial accounting and reporting in the developing countries : Empirical study of the unified accounting system in Egypt
… by structured questionnaire in the National Investment Bank in Egypt as a user of the information provided by the system. Statistical analysis of the data revealed that the system does work but it suffers from some problems which affect the usefulness of the provided information. These …
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Analytical Solutions of the SABR Stochastic Volatility Model
… among large financial institutions such as investment banks, central banks, commercial banks, government agencies, and large corporations. Since early 1970's, the Black-Scholes-Merton option model has become the market standard of buying and selling standard option contracts of European …
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Financial media, globalisation, and China’s economic integration: comparing narrative construction of the Economist and Caijing
… legal frameworks of the Asian Infrastructural Investment Bank were signed by its 57 founding members. Proposed and initiated by China, this multilateral development bank is considered to be an Asian counterpart to break the monopoly of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. In …
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Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors' Involvement in Firms Post Initial Public Offering
… traditional financial intermediaries such as banks, equity from owners or angel investors. These financial sponsors not only provide funding, but also complete intense restructuring, improve corporate governance, align interest of managers and shareholders, provide certification and improve …