and Corporate Finance Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, and Ross Levine NBER Working Paper No. 9620 April 2003 JEL No. G3, L51, O16, G21 ABSTRACT We examine the impact of bank supervision on the financing obstacles faced by almost 5,000 corporations across 49 countries. We find that firms in countries with strong official supervisory agencies that directly monitor banks tend to face greater financing obstacles. Moreover, powerful official supervision tends to increase firm reliance on special
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Foreign Policy Research Institute FOOTNOTES Vol. 16, No. 06 The Newsletter of FPRI’s Wachman Center June 2011 THE RISE OF CHINA’S ECONOMY By Thomas G. Rawski Thomas G. Rawski, Professor of Economics and History, joined the University of Pittsburgh's faculty in 1985 after fourteen years at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on the nature and implications of recent developments and long-term changes in the economy of China. He delivered this paper at A History Institute for Teachers
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minister of Finance, Federal Republic of Nigeria Noa Gimelli, ExxonMobil Foundation Olga Morawczynski, Grameen AppLab Uganda Sean DeWitt, Grameen Foundation Seppo Aaltonen, Nokia Susie Kelt, Vodafone Qatar Professor Mark Levy, Michigan State University Ghassan Hasbani, Saudi Telecom Company Iman Bibars, Ashoka HE Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Saud Al Thani, Qtel Jacob Korenblum, SoukTel Theophilus Adewale Onadeko, IFC Yves Gauthier, Mobinil Jaques Voogt, Vodacom
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stakeholders. Many of the famous financial scandals are noted in the history occurring at Parmalat, Nortel, and Enron. It has cost a lot of drop in the market, huge loss of saving, loss of jobs and decrease in taxes. The financial scandals have made corporations to learn and practice new methods. The imports and exports must be managed effectively in order to manage a nation. A nation work on the same principles like an organization but a very huge level. There are a number of departments involved combined
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problem. The most efficient method to hedge against this risk is by using oil futures contracts. Because of its effectiveness, oil futures contracts are playing a key role in risk management for a number of industries including transportation and manufacturing. This report provides principal knowledge about oil futures and its role in hedging the risk of oil price volatility. A case study of US airline industry with most updated data obtained from Bloomberg system is also discussed, which suggests the
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PCB Piezotronics, Inc. 3425 Walden Avenue Depew, NY 14043-2495 Quality Management System Policy Manual Documentation Level: I “Total Customer Satisfaction” Quality Management System Policy Manual Table of Contents Section Table of Contents Information Page Corporate Profile and Information Page 1 2 3 Introduction Quality Policy Organization Structure Identification of Level II Process Procedures 7 8 9 12 Requirements: 4 Quality Management System 4.1 General
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For the exclusive use of T. Song, 2015. 9-714-413 REV: JANUARY 24, 2014 ERIC VAN DEN STEEN Tesla Motors “Tesla is in California, so it is not April Fool’s yet!” tweeted Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, around 10 PM PT on March 31, 2013. “First profitable Q for Tesla thanks to awesome customers & hard work by a super dedicated team”1 he had tweeted a few minutes earlier. And indeed, on May 8, Tesla announced a net income of more than $10mln on $560 mln in sales.2 Tesla had outsold both
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propitious atmosphere for innovative behaviour. Nowhere were adaptations to this altered environment more apparent than in the Japanese automobile and semiconductor industries and no firm was more successful, admired and emulated than Toyota Motor Corporation. Indicative of these changes is a Fortune magazine article, published several years ago, which provided a popular assessment of the successes of Toyota. It reported that Toyota was named the most admired motor vehicle manufacturer in the world in
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China’s Auto Sector Development and Policies: Issues and Implications Rachel Tang Analyst in Asian Affairs June 25, 2012 Congressional Research Service 7-5700 www.crs.gov R40924 CRS Report for Congress Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress China’s Auto Sector Development and Policies: Issues and Implications Summary The automobile industry, a key sector in China’s industrialization and modernization efforts, has been developing rapidly since the 1990s. In recent years, China
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Front. Mech. Eng. 2013, 8(3): 215–243 DOI 10.1007/s11465-013-0248-8 REVIEW ARTICLE Nannan GUO, Ming C. LEU Additive manufacturing: technology, applications and research needs © Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 Abstract Additive manufacturing (AM) technology has been researched and developed for more than 20 years. Rather than removing materials, AM processes make three-dimensional parts directly from CAD models by adding materials layer by layer, offering
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