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Ex Post Versus Ex Ante Measures Of The User Cost Of Capital
When doing growth accounting, should we use ex post or ex ante measures of user costs to calculate the contribution of capital? The answer, based on a simple model of temporary equilibrium, is that ex post is better in theory. In practice researchers usually calculate ex post user costs by...
Tags: London School of Economics, theory, asset
White papers 2005-07-01
Managerial Incentives, Uncertainty And Ownership Concentration
This paper proposes a simple model of the managerial corporation. By rooting the conflicts of interests between managers and shareholders upon the control of internal funds, paper investigates the link between profit uncertainty, growth options and decisional powers. The model has implications for the optimal degree of equity concentration, the...
Tags: Investment, London School of Economics, equity, allocation, incentive, shareholder
White papers 2005-04-29
Quantifying The Contribution Of Technological Change To Economic Growth In Different Eras
A formidable array of historical growth accounting studies has been conducted and the conventional methodology is firmly established as a valuable diagnostic tool. A number of important lessons have become apparent but new research issues have also emerged. Two main messages should be heeded. First, the estimate of TFP (Total...
Tags: London School of Economics, total factor productivity, tool
White papers 2003-09-01
Adoption of Electronic Banking: Underlying Consumer Behavior and Critical Success Factors
This paper discusses on the emergence of electronic banking, which has been a topic of increasing interest in recent years for both academics and practitioners, as the changes taking place in the field are clearly observable. However, the growing interest has not been matched well enough with relevant studies that...
Tags: Banking, London School of Economics, electronic banking
White papers 2003-04-14

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Despite Current Economic Climate, Financial-Services Companies are Still Transferring Key Employees into Emerging Markets Due to Perceived Lack of Local Talent
Companies Are Focusing on Standardizing Policies and Taking Extra Care to Select the Right Candidate, According to Survey by GMAC Global Relocation Services OAK BROOK, Ill. and LONDON, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- When it comes to transferring employees around the globe, the majority of the world's financial-services...
Articles 2008-06-30
great box-ticker takes charge, The
The Financial Services Authority has had only two chairmen since its creation in 1997, and as the Northern Rock debacle happened on the watch of the second incumbent, Sir Callum McCarthy, the model for his replacement is inevitably the original holder, Sir Howard Davies. On that basis, Adair Turner --...
Articles 2008-06-07
MUSING Executive Workshop "Turning data into risk knowledge: Implementation of semantic-based risk management processes in the financial services industry"; Location: The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Bankside House, 24 Sumner Street, London SE1 9JA on 21 May 2008.
M2 PRESSWIRE-3 March 2008-MUSING: MUSING Executive Workshop "Turning data into risk knowledge: Implementation of semantic-based risk management processes in the financial services industry"; Location: The London School of Economics and Political Science LSE, Bankside House, 24 Sumner Street, London SE1 9JA on 21 May 2008.C1994-2008...
Articles 2008-03-03
Can London emerge from financial crises with its reputation intact?
How damaged is the City? As the decision about Northern Rock is gradually absorbed by the markets, people are switching attention to the secondary effects. Sir Howard Davies thinks that the combination of Northern Rock and the non-doms tax saga has indeed been damaging. He deserves to be listened to....
Articles 2008-02-21
Mark Hoban.
The media has hailed leader of the opposition David Cameron and shadow chancellor George Osborne as "the Blair and Brown" of the new-look Conservative party. Does this make Mark Hoban the next Ed Balls? Mr Hoban's official title, shadow financial secretary to the Treasury, is misleading...
Articles 2007-11-26
Triple Dragon Announces Management Changes.
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Jun 4, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Triple Dragon Resources Inc. (CNQ:TDRN) reports the appointment of Ringo Hui as Director, Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary. Mr. Hui graduated from the London School of Economics with a master degree and a bachelor degree...
Articles 2007-06-04
The Size of the Global Commodities Derivatives Market is Now Estimated to be Around $750 Billion
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c52837) has announced the addition of Intelligent Commodity Investing to their offering. "In recent years, commodity investing has come of age. But the analytical underpinnings of the market are still less well understood than those of markets in other asset classes. Till...
Articles 2007-03-27
NAB division adds up to growth.
Byline: Stewart Oldfield Jul 24, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Institutional Markets & Services IMS arm is proving to be a strength in National Australia Bank's recovery. IMS, which despite restructuring managed to generate a 2.5%...
Articles 2006-07-24
Don't bet on China, adviser warns.(Brief Article)
Mar 22, 2005 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) Australian companies have been warned to be cautious about relying on Chinese economic growth. Sir Howard Davies, former head of the UK Financial Services Authority, said that China must reform its financial system for...
Articles 2005-03-23
Protocols can ease world financial trade.(Financial Services Authority's chairman Callum McCarthy)
AS BUSINESS becomes more global, protocols for home and host regulators need to be established, according to Callum McCarthy. The chairman of the FSA said regulators were coming under increasing pressure to remove unnecessary, duplicated or even inconsistent regulatory requirements arising from international...
Articles 2004-12-16
New OFT director for competition in the service industries.
M2 PRESSWIRE-13 December 2004-UK Government: New OFT director for competition in the service industriesC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:12132004 Frances Warburton, currently Head of Gas Networks Regulation at the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets Ofgem, has been appointed Director for Service...
Articles 2004-12-13
Nice plan, but will it work?
THE National Association of Pension Funds has launched the first draft of its citizen's pension proposals and already people are queuing up to support or condemn it. See page five The committee that produced the 64-page document is formidable, comprising some of the...
Articles 2004-12-09
Nice plan, but will it work?(pension proposals)(Brief Article)
THE National Association of Pension Funds has launched the first draft of its citizen's pension proposals and already people are queuing up to support or condemn it. See page five The committee that produced the 64-page document is formidable, comprising some of the...
Articles 2004-12-09
Bleak retirement in store for staff of smaller firms.(Brief Article)
ALMOST 10m Britons who work for small to medium-sized businesses face a bleak retirement -- including IFAs. This is according to Ros Altmann, governor of the London School of Economics and the Pensions Policy Institute, who said small businesses were neglected by government...
Articles 2004-12-02
PEOPLE: David Miles joins JP Morgan
David Miles is joining JP Morgan as its chief UK economist in London. Professor Miles, left, who was the author of a review of the mortgage market commissioned by the Treasury, is a specialist in the UK financial markets, pensions and housing. He also serves on...
Articles 2004-09-09
LSE SUMMER SCHOOL TO START COURSES IN PEKING UNIVERSITY
AsiaInfo Services07-16-2004LSE Summer School to Start Courses in Peking UniversityBEIJING, Jul 16, 2004 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Recently, Peking University, one of the leading comprehensive universities in China, has reachedan agreement with London School of Economics and Political Science LSE, a world-recognized social science university, tohost the summer school from...
Articles 2004-07-16
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