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Anglo-Dutch premium auctions in eighteenth-century Amsterdam [PDF]
, 2012 An Anglo-Dutch premium auction consists of an English auction followed by a Dutch auction, with a cash premium paid to the winner of the first round. We study such auctions used in the secondary debt market in eighteenth-century Amsterdam. This was among
Boerner, Lars +2 more
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Going for Broke: Bank Reputation and the Performance of Opaque Securities
The Journal of Finance, Volume 80, Issue 6, Page 3263-3312, December 2025.ABSTRACT Can banks’ reputational concerns improve the quality of opaque, off‐balance sheet securities, such as mortgage‐backed securities? We study this question in a uniquely parsimonious setting. In the 1760s, Dutch banking partnerships securitized West‐Indian plantation mortgages that were risky and opaque.
ABE DE JONG +2 more
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Shared governance as a pathway to regional cooperation and development through the ItaipuCorpus
Development Policy Review, Volume 43, Issue 6, November 2025.Abstract Motivation Cross‐border cooperation remains a critical challenge for sustainable development in regions marked by historical rivalries, geopolitical asymmetries, and socioenvironmental vulnerabilities. The Itaipu Binacional Hydroelectric Plant, jointly governed by Brazil and Paraguay, offers a unique case for examining how shared governance ...
Júlia Souza Luiz +1 more
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Doing Business in Poland: Legal Aspects of Doing Business in Poland [PDF]
, 2007 [Excerpt] The transformation of Poland\u27s economy from a centrally planned to a modern market economy continues apace. Successive governments have re-affirmed their commitment to privatization and the liberalization of the economy with the aim of ...
Baker & McKenzie
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The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 1068-1087, November 2025.Abstract Sustained long‐distance trade in the early modern era necessitated institutional mechanisms capable of solving three interrelated challenges: the need to mobilize an unprecedented volume of capital and to lock it in for long periods of time, ways of mitigating the principal–agent problem across continents, and methods to internalize and ...
Juan José Rivas Moreno
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Joseph Welsh : A British Santanista (Mexico, 1832) [PDF]
, 2004 Joseph Welsh was the British Vice Consul in the port of Veracruz at the time of the uprising of 1832 by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna against the government of Anastasio Bustamante.
Fowler, William
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 659-671, May 2025.ABSTRACT Clear communication between government administrations and citizens is a challenge in democratic societies. Public administration texts often contain technical legal terms, essential to convey specialized knowledge with precision but often impenetrable to non‐experts.
Sabela Fernández‐Silva +1 more
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The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 152-178, February 2025.Abstract We examine the Amsterdam phase of the 1772–3 financial crisis using the British experience in the same episode as comparative context. We conclude that, notwithstanding some direct exposures by Amsterdam institutions to the principals of the London crisis, the main linkage between the two outbreaks was the requirement for cash margin on loans ...
Stein Berre, Paul Kosmetatos
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(Re)purposing cadasters: When ecclesiastical archives advocate for Indigenous land rights
Canadian Geographer / Le géographe canadien, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 306-322, Autumn / automne 2024.Abstract This paper reflects on the potential and limits of repatriating state‐sanctioned historical materials and repurposing them as “counter‐archives” for Indigenous communities. This proposal aligns itself with the epistemic shift in archival studies which promotes a processual approach to archiving (archive‐as‐subject) rather than an extractive ...
Léa Denieul‐Pinsky
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The German Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien (limited partnership with shares) [PDF]
, 2010 An overview of the German law governing limited partnership companies with shares (Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien). The author outlines: the historical background, applicable rules of law, formation, structure, organisation and financial provisions of ...
Wooldridge, Frank
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