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Agglomeration Economies And The Location Of Foreign Direct Investment
Romania experienced a large inflow of FDI Foreign Direct Investment after the revolution in 1989. This was exploited in order to study the importance of agglomeration economies for the location of FDI. Using a conditional logit setup, it was found that external economies from industry-specific foreign agglomeration and service agglomeration...
Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, London School of Economics, foreign direct investment, industry
White papers 2006-11-22
Public Policy, Early-Stage Financing, And Firm Growth In New Industries
Does Europe have too few fast-growing companies in new (hi-tech) industries compared to the US? And if so, why? While Europe has seen a vast increase in early-stage financing, financiers with specific industry expertise seem to be still relatively scarce. This may engender a serious information gap between entrepreneurs and...
Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, London School of Economics, financing, industry, analysis
White papers 2006-09-17
Trade Liberalization And Industrial Restructuring Through Mergers And Acquisitions
This paper analyzes Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) as a previously neglected channel of industrial restructuring in the face of trade liberalization. Using the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement of 1989 as a natural experiment, the author shows that trade liberalization leads to a significant increase in M&A activity. He also...
Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Free trade, London School of Economics, liberalization, M&A, adjustment
White papers 2006-03-01
Computing The True Spread
How much of the observed labour productivity spread is real? This paper proposes a novel framework to calculate productivity differences between plants accounting for imperfect competition, variations in output prices across plants, endogeneity of factor inputs and measurement error in labour inputs. For UK manufacturing as a whole the author...
Tags: Computing, London School Of Economics, Investment, Finance
White papers 2005-05-01
Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Increase Foreign Direct Investment To Developing Countries?
Foreign investors are often skeptical toward the quality of the domestic institutions and the enforceability of the law in developing countries. Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT's) guarantee certain standards of treatment that can be enforced via binding investor-to-state dispute settlement outside the domestic juridical system. Developing countries accept restrictions on their...
Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Free trade, Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, London School of Economics, developing country, foreign direct investment
White papers 2005-05-01
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
Trade Openness, Foreign Direct Investment And Child Labor
The skeptics of globalization argue that increased trade openness and foreign direct investment induce developing countries to keep labor costs low, for example, by letting children work. This paper argues that there are good theoretical reasons why globalization might actually have the opposite effect. This is tested with various measures...
Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, London School of Economics, foreign direct investment, globalization, developing country, analysis, stock
White papers 2004-12-21
Endogenous Risk
Endogenous risk refers to the risk from shocks that are generated and amplified within the system. It stands in contrast to exogenous risk, which refers to shocks that arrive from outside the system. Financial markets are subject to both types of risk. However, the greatest damage is done from risk...
Tags: Strategy, Investment, Financial accounting, London School of Economics, risk, financial market, stock market, stock, financial
White papers 2002-09-21

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VioSolar Inc. Announces Appointment of Mr. Jonathan Bradley to the Board of Directors
ATHENS, Greece -- VioSolar Inc. (OTCBB:VIOSF) (Frankfurt:SDE) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Jonathan Bradley to the board of directors. Mr. Bradley, 56, is currently Dean of Students, University of the West of England, Bristol. Previously, since 1990, he was a principal lecturer in International Business...
Articles 2008-03-20
The small cap puzzle.
Small caps have underperformed for years. But economics says they shouldn't. Chris Dillow Everyone knows it's been a rough few months for smaller stocks. What's less appreciated, but much more interesting, is that it's been a rough couple of decades for them. ...
Articles 2008-01-03
Morgan Joseph Hires Jonathan Fitzgerald for Push into Cleantech Investment Banking
NEW YORK -- Morgan Joseph & Co. Inc., a full-service investment bank, announced today that Jonathan W. Fitzgerald has been appointed a managing director in its Investment Banking Group. Mr. Fitzgerald leads the Firm's Cleantech investment banking practice in Los Angeles and now serves as a senior investment...
Articles 2007-11-26
Soltera Mining Corp. Announces Appointment of New Director.
JUJUY, ARGENTINA, Sep 5, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Soltera Mining Corp. (OTCBB:SLTA)(FRANKFURT:SN7), an exploration stage company, announced today that Dr. Kevan L. Ashworth has joined Soltera Mining Corp.'s Board of Directors. Qualified at the University of Durham (Ph.D.) and the Royal School...
Articles 2007-09-05
Khan Noorpuri: perfecting option writing
Ansbacher Investment management AIM was already one of the oldest and most successful option writing commodity trading advisors in 2002, so there was some risk involved when founding principal Max Ansbacher brought on a partner to revamp the original Elizaville Partners trading program. Maruf H. Khan Noorpuri joined Ansbacher as...
Articles 2007-09-01
ING Clarion Partners LLC
ING Clarion Partners, LLC has named David J. Lynn head of U.S. Research & Strategy. At the firm, Lynn will be responsible for strategy and research support for ING Clarion Partners and ING Clarion Capital investment activities. Lynn has served most recently as gobal head of Research and Investment Strategy...
Articles 2007-05-16
AMP Capital Investors has ...
Apr 27, 2007 (Money Management - ABIX via COMTEX) -- AMP Capital Investors has appointed Simon Warner as head of macro markets, fixed interest. Simon has over 10 years of investment management experience. Most recently, he was chief investment officer for Australasia at JP Morgan Chase,...
Articles 2007-04-27
Lindsay Aspegren; General partner North Coast Technology Investors L.P.(Business Lives)
Byline: Tom Henderso Lindsay Aspegren, 44, attended Yale, the Harvard Business School and the London School of Economics. Before moving to Ann Arbor to found venture-capital firm North Coast in 1999 - his wife, Lucy, an attorney in Palo Alto, Calif., wanted...
Articles 2007-04-02
In Memoriam: Harold Edey
Emeritus Professor Harold Edey died on 12 March 2007. He qualified as a chartered accountant in 1935 and, after war service in the Navy and a period as an investment analyst, he joined the London School of Economics LSE as lecturer in accounting and finance in 1949. He became Reader...
Articles 2007-04-01
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
Sabbaticals let law firm associates mull over career choices
The New York-based firm of Sherman & Sterling LLP has a one-of-a- kind policy where sabbaticals are actually mandatory, according to Lisa L. Jacobs, a partner at the firm. And they're not for partners. Associates in their fifth or sixth year with the firm must take time...
Articles 2007-02-16
The credit default swap basis
The credit default swap basis. Choudhry, Moorad. Bloomberg Press 2006 194 pages $50.00 Hardcover HG6024 Choudhry (economics, London Metropolitan U.; U. of Reading; Case Business School) offers an overview of the credit default swap...
Articles 2007-02-01
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