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• Angelo, Gordon & Co

  - 2007-04-18

  Angelo, Gordon & Co. announced that Marisa Mackey has joined the firm as a vice president in its dedicated Net Lease Group. Mackey joins Angelo Gordon from Lehman Brothers' Investment Banking Division, where she was a member of the Global Communications & Media Group. Prior to that, she was a...

  Tags: FINANCE, Investment, Lehman Brothers Inc., MBA, University of Wisconsin

• Regional Differences And Underwriter Location In Initial Public Offerings

  BNET - 2005-05-23

  Equity capital is often an important source of funds for growing firms. This paper investigates the regional differences in the size of newly organized Initial Public Offerings, an important source of equity capital. It also investigates the importance of underwriter reputation and location to the size of the offering. The...

  Tags: University Of Wisconsin, Equity, IPO, Investment, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance

• Uta Thyra Hagen

  - 2005-01-01

  Uta Thyra Hagen From The Sea Gull, her 1938 Broadway debut, to the 1995 off-Broadway hit Mrs. Klein, Uta Hagen (born 1919) keeps bringing down the house. Many critics consider her the first lady of theater. Uta Hagen was born to Oskar Frank Leonard and Thyra...

  Tags: CAREER, drama, FINANCE, Investment, TVs, University of Wisconsin

• The Role Of Law In Development - Past, Present And Future

  BNET - 2004-10-22

  People are poor because they have no money. Countries are less developed because they have no capital. These truisms have a profound impact on the development assistance provided by rich countries to the poor countries, as evidenced by the tendency to measure development assistance by the amount of resources transferred...

  Tags: University Of Wisconsin, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Finance

• Finance, Investment, and Investment Performance: Evidence From the REIT Sector

  BNET - 2004-10-01

  The paper examines financing, investment, and investment performance in the equity REIT sector over the 1981-1999 time period. Analysis reveals significant differences between the old-REIT (1981-1992) and new-REIT (1993-1999) eras. The sector experienced rapid growth in the new-REIT era, primarily from firm-level investment as opposed to new entry. Firm-level investment...

  Tags: REIT, Performance, University Of Wisconsin, Investment, Real Estate, Finance, Business Operations

• University of Oregon

  - 2004-03-25

  GREGORY VINCENT has been named to the newly created post of vice provost for institutional equity and diversity at the University of Oregon. Vincent was a law professor and vice provost at Louisiana State University. He also served as assistant vice chancellor at the University of Wisconsin. He earned a...

  Tags: FINANCE, Investment, Ohio State University, University of Oregon, University of Wisconsin

• A Large Speculator in Contagious Currency Crises: A Single "George Soros" Makes Countries More Vulnerable to Crises, But Mitigates Contagion

  BNET - 2003-11-01

  This paper studies the model that proposes a new contagion channel and shows how a currency crisis can spread from one country to another even when these countries are totally unrelated in terms of economic fundamentals. It finds that the better the economic fundamentals in the originating crisis country, the...

  Tags: University Of Wisconsin, Crisis, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Finance

• Snap Judgment

  - 2003-10-20

  THEY MARCHED INTO SUNLIGHT By David Maraniss Pultizer Prize winner Maraniss reconstructs two days in 1967: in Vietnam, on the demonstration-torn campus of the University of Wisconsin and in the Johnson White House. The domestic conflicts--between students and administrators, and among the president's advisers--would seem more compelling if...

  Tags: FINANCE, Investment, Snap, University of Wisconsin, Vietnam, White House

• Wisconsin Crops Struggle amid Dry Weather; Farmers Worried about Profits.

  - 2003-09-06

  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 6--Amid a 10-month dry spell that has seen precipitation drop by as much as half in parts of southeastern Wisconsin, gardeners, farmers and urban foresters are either frantically watering vegetation or watching helplessly as...

  Tags: FINANCE, Investment, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin

• Registration of Phaseolus vulgaris genetic stocks with altered seed protein compositions. (Registrations Of Genetic Stocks).

  - 2003-07-01

  Thirteen Phaseolus vulgaris L. genetic stocks were developed and released by the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station and the University of Wisconsin: SARC1 (Reg. no. GS-10, PI 628619), SARC2 (Reg. no. GS-11, PI 628620), SARC3 (Reg. no. GS-12, PI 628621), SARC4 (Reg. no. GS-13, PI 628622), PARC1...

  Tags: FINANCE, Investment, protein, stock, University of Wisconsin