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Power asymmetries and limits to eminent domain: The case of Missoula water’s municipalisation
Water Alternatives, 2019 In 2017, the City of Missoula, Montana, in the western United States, successfully used its powers of eminent domain to take ownership of its water system from The Carlyle Group, a large international private equity firm.
Cory L. Mann, Mildred E. Warner
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Private Equity, Corporate Governance and Out-Performance of High-Growth Firms [PDF]
, 2010 The paper investigates how Private Equity (PE) ownership influences out-performance of a high-growth firm, and whether it differs from the effect of two other important types of financial investors: banks and non-bank financial firms.
Badunenko, Oleg +2 more
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Firm Acquisitions and Technology Strategy: Corporate versus Private Equity Investors [PDF]
, 2007 Over the last few years, worldwide mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have increased sharply both in terms of value and volume. This development has not only been driven by corporate acquirers but also to an increasing extent by private equity investors.
Grimpe, Christoph, Hussinger, Katrin
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Food banks in schools in England
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the number and distribution of food banks in schools in England. Drawing on a novel source of nationally representative data, we show that one in five schools operate a food bank. This amounts to over 4000 school‐based food banks across the country.
William Baker +2 more
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Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation: Creating Public Sentiment
Health Equity, 2021 Abraham Lincoln understood the importance of public sentiment to our democracy when he debated Stephen Douglas in 1858. ?In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything,? Lincoln noted. ?With public sentiment, nothing can fail.
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Does the Tenure of Private Equity Investment Improve the Performance of European Firms? [PDF]
The paper investigates whether the presence and tenure of Private Equity (PE) investment in European companies improves their performance. Previous studies documented the unambiguous merit of a buyout during the 1980s and 1990s for listed firms in the US
Christopher F. Baum +2 more
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Multilevel analysis of ethnic clustering across local schools: Exploring group dynamics
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines ethnic clustering patterns across English secondary schools from 2010 to 2018 using National Pupil Database data and multilevel modelling. Despite concerns about increased segregation following educational reforms, findings reveal a general decline in ethnic concentration across all groups during this period.
Yiyang Gao
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Firm Acquisitions and Technology Strategy: Corporate versus Private Equity Investors [PDF]
Over the last few years, worldwide mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have increased sharply both in terms of value and volume. This development has not only been driven by corporate acquirers but also to an increasing extent by private equity investors.
Grimpe, Christoph, Hussinger, Katrin
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The determinants of debt and (private-) equity financing in young innovative SMEs: evidence from Germany [PDF]
, 2004 Financial theory creates a puzzle. Some authors argue that high-risk entrepreneurs choose debt contracts instead of equity contracts since risky but high returns are of relatively more value for a loan-financed firm.
Schäfer, Dorothea +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research evidence is mixed on the consequences of ability grouping policies, but most research has found an overrepresentation of disadvantaged social demographics in low‐ability groups. However, researchers have neglected to explain why ability grouping policies vary between countries.
Monica Reichenberg +2 more
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