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Urgent Call for CEOs with Finance Background for CEOs Position

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
In today’s business world, it is important for accounting and finance professionals have international experience. After the economic recessions, downturns, and corporate scandals, there is a global demand for CEOs with a financial background. Therefore, this article has a considerable and significant impact on what facilitates the surge for the demand
Bazeet Badru, Nurwati A. Ahmad-Zaluki
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Finance capital, food security narratives and Australian agricultural land

, 2015
The growing involvement of financial actors in food production has been one of the major recent transformations in the global agri-food system.
Nicolette Larder, S. Sippel, G. Lawrence
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Wars of Position: Industry and Finance

1991
Wars of position that spread over vast areas of political life quickly become diffuse and hard to direct. As the Conservative Opposition saw it before 1979, the problem for government was how to change not only the balance of power between the state and competing institutions, but also the patterns of behaviour within markets. They did not believe that
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Normative public finance without guilt: why normative public finance is positive public finance

2002
There is a long-standing difference amongst public economists between those who think that collective choice must be formally acknowledged, and those who derive their policy recommendations from a social planning framework in which politics plays no role.
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Drilling Program Financing and the Operator Risk/Return Position

Proceedings of SPE Economics and Evaluation Symposium, 1977
Society of Petroleum Engineers 6200 North Central Expressway Dallas, Texas 75206 THIS PAPER IS SUBJECT TO CORRECTION American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc. Introduction The purpose of the drilling program is to raise venture capital for
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Positioning Climate Finance in the Post 2015 Development Agenda

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
By the end of 2015, we will see a new global development agenda which will substitute the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). If we look at the years after the adoption of the MDGs, there is no doubt that the development goals have been successful in focusing governments’ attention on poverty eradication, by setting clear outcome indicators and ...
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Informational Criteria for Positive and Negative Bubbles: An Experiment in Forensic Finance [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
The notion of bubbles is ubiquitous in the public discussion of finance. Yet, the empirical discovery of bubbles is notoriously difficult. The main shortcoming of the current approaches is that they rely on the estimation of the “fundamental value of an asset”, which is hard to estimate and interpret.
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The Everyday Life of Global Finance: Saving and Borrowing in Anglo-America

, 2008
In the US and UK, saving and borrowing routines have changed radically and become closely bound-up with the capital markets of global finance. As mutual funds have increased in popularity and pension provision has been transformed, many more individuals ...
P. Langley
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The Global City

, 1992
Massive and parallel changes have occurred in New York City since the late 1970s and in London and Tokyo since the early 1980s. What transformed these urban centers, with their diverse histories, into "global cities" that share comparable economic and ...
S. Sassen
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Positive externalities of domestic biogas initiatives: Implications for financing

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2008
Domestic biogas programs are often justified on the basis of the private benefits and costs accruing to the individual households, in terms of providing a superior cooking fuel, improved indoor air quality and saving of time spent on collecting firewood.
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