March 2012 CORPORATE PYRAMIDS IN THE ISRAELI ECONOMY: PROBLEMS AND POLICIES A Report Prepared for the Committee on Increasing Competitiveness in the Economy Lucian Bebchuk * * William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law‚ Economics‚ and Finance‚ Director of the Program on Corporate Governance‚ and Director of the Program on Institutional Investors‚ Harvard Law School. I also serve as a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Fellow of
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Forthcoming Journal of Applied Finance‚ Financial Management Association The Exxon-Mobil Merger: An Archetype J. Fred Weston* The Anderson School at UCLA University of California‚ Los Angeles jweston@anderson.ucla.edu February 26‚ 2002 Fred Weston is Professor of Finance Emeritus Recalled‚ the Anderson School at the University of California Los Angeles. Thanks to Matthias Kahl‚ Samuel C. Weaver‚ Juan Siu‚ Brian Johnson‚ and Kelley Coleman for contributions. The paper also benefited from
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Why has the value of cash increased over time? * Thomas W. Bates Arizona State University Thomas.Bates@asu.edu Ching-Hung (Henry) Chang Arizona State University Ching-Hung.Chang@asu.edu Jianxin (Daniel) Chi University of Nevada‚ Las Vegas Daniel.Chi@unlv.edu First Draft: January 2011 This Draft: December 2011 Abstract: The value of cash holdings by U.S. non-financial firms has increased significantly over the past three decades. An additional dollar of cash holdings is valued at $0.61 in
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History of Bulgaria From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Part of a series on the History of Bulgaria Rila Monastery Odrysian kingdom 460 BC – 46 AD Old Great Bulgaria 632 – 681 AD First Bulgarian Empire 681–1018 Christianization Golden Age 896–927 Comitopuli Dynasty 968–1018 Byzantine Bulgaria1018–1185 Second Bulgarian Empire 1185–1396 Second Golden Age 1230–1241 Mongol invasion 1274–1300 Recovery
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Personnel and Human Resource Management‚ 8: 41–107. Greenwich‚ Connecticut: JAI Press. Shaver‚ J. Myles. 2006. A paradox of synergy: Contagion and capacity effects in mergers and acquisitions‚ Academy of Management Review‚ 31(4): 962–976. Shleifer‚ Andrei and Robert Vishny. 1990. The takeover wave of the 1980s‚ Science‚ 249: 745–749. Shiller‚ Robert J. 1981. Do stock prices move too much to be justified by subsequent changes in dividends?‚ American Economic Review‚ 71(3): 421–436. Simon‚ Herbert A
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Customer Needs in e-Services 1 Running head: CUSTOMER NEEDS IN E-SERVICES How e-Services Satisfy Customer Needs: a Software-aided Reasoning Ziv Baida1‚2‚ Jaap Gordijn3‚ Hans Akkermans3‚ Hanne Sæle4 and Andrei Z. Morch4 1 Faculty of Economics and Business Administration‚ Free University Amsterdam‚ The Netherlands 2 e-Rational‚ Amsterdam‚ The Netherlands 3 Faculty of Sciences‚ Free University Amsterdam‚ The Netherlands 4 SINTEF Energy Research‚ Norway Customer Needs in e-Services 2
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Russia Subject: Contemporary Strategic Analysis Authors: Group Seven of all kinds (Anne-Gaëlle Le Gal‚ Hildegunn Nesje‚ Andreja Ojsteršek‚ Nikolay Semakov‚ Roman Shapurko‚ Elena Shatalova (Zlochevskaya)‚ Julia Shmeleva) Fall semester 2012 Mentor: Andrei Yu. Panibratov‚ Professor‚ Doctor in Economics‚ MBA Table of Contents Introduction 3 Social Networks Overview 5 The History of the Social Network Sites 6 Facebook overview 8 Part 1. Social Networks in Russia 9 Part 2. Facebook in
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The Stock Market and Corporate Investment: A Test of Catering Theory Christopher Polk London School of Economics Paola Sapienza Northwestern University‚ CEPR‚ and NBER We test a catering theory describing how stock market mispricing might influence individual firms’ investment decisions. We use discretionary accruals as our proxy for mispricing. We find a positive relation between abnormal investment and discretionary accruals; that abnormal investment is more sensitive to discretionary accruals
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Chapter 4 TAX INCENTIVES FOR HOUSEHOLD SAVING AND BORROWING Tullio Jappelli & Luigi Pistaferri We thank Patrick Honohan‚ Alberto Musalem and seminar participants at the World Bank Conference of April 8-9‚ 2002‚ for useful comments and Tea Trumbic for research assistance. Introduction Modern theories of intertemporal consumption choice emphasize that individuals may save for variety of motives: to smooth life-cycle fluctuations in income (the retirement‚ or life-cycle motive)‚ to face
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The Giver Page 1 of 182 The Giver Lois Lowry NOTICE This accessible media has been made available to people with bona fide disabilities that affect reading. This notice tells you about restrictions on the use of this accessible media‚ which could be a book‚ a periodical‚ or other content. Copyright Notice Title: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Copyright 1993 by Lois Lowry This notice is not part of the copyrighted work‚ which begins below after the phrase "Begin Content". Bookshare distributes
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