Law and finance
by Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-silanes, Andrei Shleifer, Robert W. Vishny, Bernard Black, Bertyl G. Bylund, Francesco Denozza, Yoshikata Fukui, Zvi Griliches, Oliver Hart, Martin Hellwig, James Hines, Louis Kaplow, Raghu Rajan, Roberta Romano, Rolf Skog, Eddy Wymeersch, Luigi Zingales - Journal of Political Economy , 1998
"... This paper examines legal rules covering protection of corporate shareholders and creditors, the origin of these rules, and the qual-ity of their enforcement in 49 countries. The results show that common-law countries generally have the strongest, and French-civil-law countries the weakest, legal pr ..."
This paper examines legal rules covering protection of corporate shareholders and creditors, the origin of these rules, and the qual-ity of their enforcement in 49 countries. The results show that common-law countries generally have the strongest, and French-civil-law countries the weakest, legal protections of investors, with German- and Scandinavian-civil-law countries located in the mid-dle. We also find that concentration of ownership of shares in the largest public companies is negatively related to investor protec-tions, consistent with the hypothesis that small, diversified share-holders are unlikely to be important in countries that fail to protect their rights. I. Overview of the Issues In the traditional finance of Modigliani and Miller (1958), securities are recognized by their cash flows. For example, debt has a fixed promised stream of interest payments, whereas equity entitles its
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by J. Reynolds, J. Postel - STD 2, RFC 1700, USC/Information Sciences Institute , 1994
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The Microfinance Promise
by Jonathan Morduch , 1999
Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach
by Sanjeev Arora, Boaz Barak , 2006
RARE DISASTERS AND ASSET MARKETS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
by Robert J. Barro - THE QUARTER JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS 121, NO. 3 , 2006
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Convention on climate change. http://www.unfccc.de/resource/conv/index.html UNFCCC
by Unfccc Unfccc - Forest Science , 1992
"... The spectre of climate change that is unfolding now is undeniably a cumulative impact of anthropogenic interference in the climate system over the last two centuries. The science is clear and the policy community is being increasingly convinced and galvanised into action to address this emergent cha ..."
The spectre of climate change that is unfolding now is undeniably a cumulative impact of anthropogenic interference in the climate system over the last two centuries. The science is clear and the policy community is being increasingly convinced and galvanised into action to address this emergent challenge in light of the associated economic and human dimensions. The impacts of climate change ranging from sea level rise, melting ice caps and glaciers, severe weather events, drought, flooding, warming, subtle changes in ecosystems – will impinge on every aspect of society and economic life. The costs of inaction will more than outweigh the costs of action. There is only a narrow window of opportunity to redress the situation. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its Fourth Assessment Report has
Sex differences in aggression between heterosexual partners: A meta· analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 126(5).651-680. Symmetry in Partner Violence 355
by John Archer - Personality and Social Psychology Review , 2000
"... Meta-analyses of sex differences in physical aggression to heterosexual partners and in its physical consequences are reported. Women were slightly more likely (d =-.05) than men to use one or more act of physical aggression and to use such acts more frequently. Men were more likely (d =. 15) to inf ..."
Meta-analyses of sex differences in physical aggression to heterosexual partners and in its physical consequences are reported. Women were slightly more likely (d =-.05) than men to use one or more act of physical aggression and to use such acts more frequently. Men were more likely (d =. 15) to inflict an injury, and overall, 62 % of those injured by a partner were women. The findings partially support previous claims that different methods of measurement produce conflicting results, but there was also evidence that the sample was an important moderator of effect size. Continuous models showed that younger aged dating samples and a lower proportion of physically aggressive males predicted effect sizes in the female direction. Analyses were limited by the available database, which is biased toward young dating samples in the United States. Wider variations are discussed in terms of two conflicting norms about physical aggression to partners that operate to different degrees in different cultures. There are two conflicting viewpoints about partner violence, either that it involves a considerable degree of mutual combat or that it generally involves male perpetrators and female victims. The first view is associated with family conflict researchers, such as Straus (1990) and Straus and Gelles (1988b), and the second (although not exclusively) with feminist writers, such as Pagelow
Tetracycline antibiotics: mode of action, applications, molecular biology, and epidemiology of bacterial resistance
by Ian Chopra, Marilyn Roberts, Ian Chopra, Marilyn Roberts - Microbiol Mol Biol Rev , 2001
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Pathogenesis and diagnosis of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infections
by James C. Paton, Adrienne W. Paton, Clin Microbiol Rev, James C. Paton, Adrienne, W. Paton , 1998