1 The decade of the 1990s witnessed dramatic changes in the competitive situation of individual banks and in the structure of the banking industry. Legislation removed barriers for bank holding companies to own banks across state lines, allowed banks to operate across extensive areas in a single branch network, and created financial holding companies that could operate banks, securities firms, ...

This paper studies the relationship between civil war and private investment in a poor, resource abundant country using microeconomic data for Angola. We focus on diamond mining Þrms and conduct an event study on the sudden end of the conßict, marked by the death of the rebel movement leader in 2002. We Þnd that the stock market perceived this event as “bad news” rather than “good news” for com...

IT is GENERALLY recognized that the judiciary has the power to regulate the practice of law.1 The Arizona Supreme Court, in the recent case of State Bar of Arizona v. Arizona Land Title and Trust Co.,, exercised this broad judicial power by condemning as the unauthorized practice of law a wide variety of activities commonly engaged in by 'title companies and real estate brokers in that state. T...

Organisational learning has been widely acknowledged as holding the key for companies to survive and prosper and has, in recent years, gained currency in construction management research. Much research centred upon the study of organisational learning as a process, as well as the view and understanding of companies as learning organisations. However, non-construction management researchers have...

Organisational learning has been widely acknowledged as holding the key for companies to survive and prosper and has, in recent years, gained currency in construction management research. Much research centred upon the study of organisational learning as a process, as well as the view and understanding of companies as learning organisations. However, non-construction management researchers have...

This paper analyzes the productivity performance of Chinese manufacturing firms from 1995 to 2003 by using a large-scale firm-level dataset from the National Bureau of Statistics, Peoples Republic of China. Over this period, a large number of firms were converted to stock holding companies, and an increasing presence of foreign-owned companies further accelerated structural changes in Chinese i...

We find evidence that the Federal Reserve stress tests (CCAR and DFAST) produce information about the stress-tested firms as well as other, non-stress-tested banking companies. Although standard event studies do not always show abnormal returns for the stress-tested sample on average, we argue that such tests are ill-suited for this sort of information event. Using a different empirical approac...

BACKGROUND Breath-holding attacks are common during childhood. Iron supplementation has been claimed to reduce the frequency or severity, or both, of breath-holding attacks in children. OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of iron supplementation on the frequency and severity of breath-holding attacks in children. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CE...