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The Influence Of Domestic Firms On Foreign Direct Investment Liberalization

This paper investigates the influence of incumbent firms on the decision to allow foreign direct investment into an industry. Based on data from India's economic reforms, the results suggest that firms in concentrated industries are more successful at preventing foreign entry that state-owned firms are more successful at stopping foreign...

Tags: University Of Michigan, Industry, Entry, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Management

White papers 2006-03-01

South Africa's Changing Position in the International Economic Environment

The ever increasing cross border flows of trade, investment and finance, as well as the rise of technology, have given rise to a global economy. There are numerous advantages in this shift to a global economy in terms of lower costs and greater economies of scale. However, domestically and internationally,...

Tags: University Of Michigan, Environment, Economy, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance

White papers 2005-12-01

Towards a Global Civil Society

There is a powerful impulse in the world today hastening the process of international economic integration. Economic integration means greater inter-dependency among countries, greater international trade, greater market integration in commodity prices, and more extensive flows of investment and revenues. The process of globalization incorporates a number of factors: the...

Tags: University Of Michigan, Integration, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Globalization, Investment, Finance, Strategy, Management

White papers 2005-11-21

Endogenous Favoritism In Organizations

This paper addresses the issues of authority and communication in the management of innovation within an organization. In particular, the paper shows that when the principal can fund only one of two competing research or investment ideas, it can be optimal for the principal to listen to only one of...

Tags: University Of Michigan, Principal, Real Estate, Leadership, Sales Force Management, Investment, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Sales, Finance

White papers 2005-11-01

The Place of Services in the World Economy

This paper emphasizes the key roles that services play domestically and internationally in terms of accounting for rising shares of domestic output and employment as well as cross-border trade and foreign direct investment that provide enhanced export opportunities and lower-cost imports. Services are commonly subject to a variety of regulatory...

Tags: Currency & Foreign Exchange, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Free Trade, Liberalization, University Of Michigan, Finance, Investment

White papers 2005-02-15

Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, And Development

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. This paper examines the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies, often referred to as the Washington Consensus, that...

Tags: Efficiency, Development, University Of Michigan, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Free Trade, Finance

White papers 2005-01-20

The Stock Market Valuation of Corporate Control: Evidence From Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions in Emerging Markets

Using a database that covers transactions that involve a developed-market acquirer and an emerging-market target from 1988-2002, this paper studies the stock market's reaction to M&A announcements in emerging markets. The evidence suggests that the stock market anticipates significant value creation from cross border transactions that involve an emerging market...

Tags: University Of Michigan, Merger, Acquisition, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Finance, Marketing, Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Stock Market, Emerging Market, Stock, M&A

White papers 2004-08-01

Estimating The Determinants Of Foreign Direct Investment Inflows

This paper investigates the importance of factor endowment vis-a-vis institutions in explaining the locational choice of foreign investors during the 1990s. Using dynamic panel estimation on data for transition economies, the authors found that low labour costs, bureaucratic efficiency ("Institutions"), agglomeration economies and natural resource abundance are key factors explaining...

Tags: University Of Michigan, Economy, Foreign Direct Investment, Abundance, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Human Capital, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Financial Accounting, Investment, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2004-06-01

Resource Redeployment and Acquisition Performance in Crossborder and Domestic Acquisitions

Research in the strategy and international business literatures shows that firms often undertake acquisitions in order to exchange resources. The core arguments arise from theories of market failures, where market failures can stem from potential opportunism or from coordination difficulties. However, empirical research on cross-border and domestic acquisitions has not...

Tags: Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, University Of Michigan, Acquisition, Investment, Finance, Business Operations

White papers 2002-12-03

Optimal Investment Problems and Volatility Homogenization Approximations

This paper describes some stochastic control problems in financial engineering arising from the need to find investment strategies to optimize some goal. Typically, these problems are characterized by nonlinear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman partial differential equations, and often they can be reduced to linear PDEs with the Legendre transform of convex duality. This...

Tags: Finance, Investment, Approximation, University Of Michigan, Volatility

White papers 2001-12-17

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Verizon activates new cell site in Big Rapids

TELECOMWORLDWIRE-20 August 2008-Verizon activates new cell site in Big RapidsC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Verizon Wireless, a provider of wireless voice and data network and a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE:VOD) (LSE: VOD), announced on Tuesday (19 August) that the company has activated...

Articles 2008-08-20

Ross School's Frankel Fund Announces New Investment

Student-run venture capital fund to provide seed money and strategic guidance to Surgimatix ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Frankel Commercialization Fund, a student-managed venture capital seed fund at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, has announced an investment of $90,500 in Surgimatix...

Articles 2008-08-04

ForeSee Results Provides Trulia with Customer Satisfaction Data to Enhance User Experience

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- ForeSee Results today announced that they will be working with residential real estate search engine Trulia, Inc. (www.trulia.com) to measure online customer satisfaction. ForeSee Results applies the scientific customer satisfaction methodology of the University of Michigan's American Customer Satisfaction Index ACSI to identify, predict,...

Articles 2008-07-29

Business Digest

Better-than expected US figures bring cheer *A trio of better-than-expected figures yesterday raised confidence the US economy may avoid the kind of downtown feared by some bearish investors. Business investment rose unexpectedly last month, suggesting exporters, in particular, are still optimistic about the outlook. Figures for durable...

Articles 2008-07-26

An Affordable First Home, With Room to Grow

Imagine an affordable, beautiful home designedto meet the needs of you and your growing family; one that allows you tocare for an aging parent, and appeals to everyone in your family. Asystem-built home is the perfect starter home, with lasting benefits, androom to grow. System-built homes share all...

Articles 2008-07-09

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Announces Director of Investments, Real Assets

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (www.moore.org) today announced the appointment of K. Niles Bryant as the Director of Real Assets for its $6 billion investments portfolio. Niles Bryant, previously of Carnegie Corporation of New York, succeeds Denise Strack who was recently appointed as...

Articles 2008-07-08

Lodestar Foundation Announces Final Selection Panel Members for The Collaboration Prize

Accomplished List of Philanthropists and Business Leaders to Select the First Collaboration Prize Award Winner That Best Exemplifies Outstanding Nonprofit Collaboration PHOENIX -- The Lodestar Foundation, an organization dedicated to maximizing the impact of philanthropy by efficiently and effectively leveraging philanthropic resources, today announced the...

Articles 2008-07-08

Michael Shepherd Joins the Boards of Pacific Mutual Holding Company and Pacific LifeCorp

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- It was announced today that J. Michael Shepherd has joined the boards of Pacific Mutual Holding Company and Pacific LifeCorp, the parent companies of Pacific Life Insurance Company. Mr. Shepherd became president and CEO of Bank of the West on January...

Articles 2008-07-08

Some lawyers see potential for whitewash in review of Kansas City

After U.S. Attorney John Wood called for an independent review of a closed criminal case last week, some lawyers were quick to express their doubts on whether a true investigation will happen. Criminal defense lawyers not connected to the case applauded the move...

Articles 2008-07-07

Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund Invests in 3 More Michigan Start-Ups

To Date, Fund Has Invested $5.4 Million in Michigan Businesses ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Three more Michigan start-up companies received investment commitments in May, pushing the total investments made through the Michigan Pre-Seed Capital Fund to $5.4 million. To date, 25...

Articles 2008-07-07