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Ebook China’s venture capital industry: Institutional trajectories and system structure

... has always seen science and technology as a critical part of its search for economic development and national security. Venture capital ... the development of new technology ventures, various forms of venture capital firms and organizational structures supporting them. ...

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Ebook Economic Consequences of Collaborative Arrangements in the Agricultural Firm

... contractual arrangements with various parties. The purpose of collaborative arrangements varies, as does the nature of the contracts. Contract forms may be ‘horizontal’ (e.g. contracts between farmers) or ... considerable amount of literature analysing contracts and organizational structure in agriculture. In the seminal paper by Stiglitz ...

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Ebook Rural Financial Markets in Developing Countries

The organization of rural economic activity in general, and agricultural production in ... within, and often the reason behind, many contractual and organizational forms in the rural economy. Financial innovation therefore can have dramatic ...

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Ebook Long-term effect on shareholder value in a Tracking Stock Equity Structure

... markets that have prevailed during the last couple of years. Berger and Ofek (1995), Lang and Stulz (1994), Billet and Mauer ... create a new corporate entity but retains the consolidated organizational form. This is different from a normal carve-out or spin-off that ... Advantages 2.2.2. Disadvantages 2.3. Alternative forms of equity restructuring and mode of issuance 2.3.1. Spin-off ...

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Ebook Between Universalism and Political Survival: Trade Unions Politics and Economic Security in the Middle East

... their most effective when they have appealed to a vision of the future, rather than clinging to the past’ (Standing 2004), suggesting ... considerations about the benefits and costs of different forms of social protection and mutuality, but also the political risks ...

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Ebook The Effectiveness and Allocation of Subsidized Credit: Evidence from Export Loans

Submitted by puput on Mon, 11/21/2011 - 02:32

The provision of subsidized credit to domestic firms is an important policy goal for many governments around the world. One of the main justifications for these subsidies is that they help local industries overcome capital market failures, especially in developing countries where such market imperfections are common. Yet, there is little empirical evidence showing how effective these subsidies are in improving the real outcomes of firms, or how efficiently these subsidies are allocated across targeted firms that is, are more capital-constrained firms allocated a greater share?

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Ebook Federal Communication about Obesity in the Dietary Guidelines and Checkoff Programs

Submitted by puput on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 03:51

The most striking feature of the revised Dietary Guidelines for Americans, released this past January, is the publication’s increased emphasis on obesity prevention: “To reverse the trend toward obesity, most Americans need to eat fewer calories, be more active, and make wiser food choices” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2005). The Dietary Guidelines, which are released every 5 years and are now in their sixth edition, are intended as the Federal Government’s most authoritative summary of the state of nutrition science and the basis for all Federal communication with consumers on nutrition topics.

The pronounced focus on obesity prevention is not surprising, because rates of overweight and obesity have increased sharply in recent decades. One could quote any number of reports on these trends, but this chapter focuses on federal government statements, to give a sense of the prevailing view among federal policy-makers. In 2001, The Surgeon General’s Call To Action To Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity warned that these health conditions have become an epidemic (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2001). The Surgeon General estimated that, as of 1999, 61 percent of U.S. adults were overweight or obese. Thirteen percent of children and adolescents were overweight. The number of overweight children had doubled, and the number of overweight adolescents had almost tripled, since 1980. “We already are seeing tragic results from these trends,” the Surgeon General said.

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Ebook Distressed Debt Prices and Recovery Rate Estimation

Submitted by wulan on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 06:53

Given the current economic crisis, accentuated by the incorrect assessment of the default risk imbedded in subprime mortgages, the study of credit risk has assumed increased importance to the financial industry and regulators. In the existing literature, significant emphasis has been devoted to understanding the default process (the default probability) for a collection of credit risk entities.

Less emphasis, however, has been placed on understanding the recovery rate process itself. Understanding the recovery rate process is, of course, of equal importance to understanding the default likelihood in the valuation and hedging of risky debt and credit derivatives. Our paper adds to the literature on the recovery rate process.

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