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Dodging Bullets: Changing U.S. Corporate Capital Structure in the 1980s and 1…
An entertaining summary of the broad reshaping of U.S. corporate finance in the last decade and a half.The late 1980s saw a huge wave of corporate leveraging. The U.S. financial landscape was dominated by a series of high-stakes leveraged buyouts as firms replaced their equity with new fixed debt obligations. Cash-financed acquisitions and defensive share repurchases also decapitalized corporat…
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The Effects of Competition: Cartel Policy and the Evolution of Strategy and S…
"Using data from before and after the 1956 Act, this book compares the two groups of industries to determine the effect of price competition on concentration, firm and plant numbers, profitability, advertising intensity, and innovation. The book avoids two problems common to empirical studies of competition: how to measure the intensity of competition and how to unravel the links between compet…
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- 9780262284639
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- 1 online resource (x, 542 pages) :illustrations
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Confidence games: Lawyers:, accountants, and the tax shelter industry
For ten boom-powered years at the turn of the twenty-first century, some of America's most prominent law and accounting firms created and marketed products that enabled the very rich—including newly minted dot-com millionaires—to avoid paying their fair share of taxes by claiming benefits not recognized by law. These abusive domestic tax shelters bore such exotic names as BOSS, BLIPS, and C…
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The small worlds of corporate governance
The financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom and who will stand by whom in times of crisis. This book maps the influence of these types of economic and social networks on corporate behaviour and governance.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301572
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 388 pages) :illustrations
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Offshoring strategies :evolving captive center models
From the publisher. In today's globalized economy, firms often consider offshoring when confronted by rising costs and fierce competition. One mode of offshoring has continued to grow despite the current global economic turmoil: the captive center. Captive centers are offshore subsidiaries or branch offices that provide the parent company with services, usually in the form of back-office activi…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 261 pages) :illustrations
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Mergers, merger control, and remedies : a retrospective analysis of U.S. policy
A comprehensive analysis of merger outcomes based on all empirical studies, with an assessment of the effectiveness of antitrust policy toward mergers.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262327763
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Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups
How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 343 pages).
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Innovation matters :competition policy for the high-technology economy
"Antitrust enforcement has long been focused on price competition-approving or denying mergers based on whether or not it would create or reduce opportunities for consumers to be able to "shop around" for the lowest prices when it comes to internet access, cable subscriptions, airfare, and so on. It is relatively easy to evaluate price impacts-these are qualitative measures and economic theory …
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- 1 online resource (viii, 324 pages) :illustrations (black and white).
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Pastoral capitalism :a history of suburban corporate landscapes
"Mozingo distinguishes among three forms of corporate landscapes--the corporate campus, the corporate estate, and the office park--and examines suburban corporate landscapes built and inhabited by such companies as Bell Labs, General Motors, Deere & Company, and Microsoft. She also considers the globalization of pastoral capitalism in Europe and the developing world including Singapore, India, …
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- 1 online resource (x, 315 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Fundamental tax reform :issues, choices, and implications
Papers presented at a conference held at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, in Apr. 2006.In this work, experts on tax policy examine the complex issues involved in fundamental tax reform, including the relative merits of income-based and consumption-based taxation. Other papers consider topics such as the effect of tax reform on businesses, especially on thei…
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