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Moralizing the market : how Gaullist France embraced the US model of securities regulation
\"In the late 1960s, France attempted a complete overhaul of its financial regulations without being forced to do so by a stock market crash or the collapse of its banking system. Out of pure political expediency, Gaullist reformers seized the opportunity offered by a minor insider trading case to establish the \"Commission des Opérations de Bourse (COB), an independent commission in charge of regulating the securities market. Even more surprisingly, these staunch defenders of national sovereignty drew their inspiration from an American model, the Securities and Exchange Commission. Rather than a comparative study of securities regulation in France and the United States, the book is an investigation of the dynamics of policy transfer in the field of securities regulation. Along the way, it reveals a great deal about French and American perceptions of morality and capitalism, but also, more generally, about the exercise of political power in modern democracies, the interaction between business and government, and the mechanisms of institutional innovation\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Economist video. Could the stockmarket chaos get worse?
Donald Trump's tariffs have caused wild swings in the stock markets, but could the chaos get worse? Josh Roberts, our capital markets correspondent, gives his take.
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The Salesforce CPQ Implementation Handbook
An end-to-end practical guide to implementing Salesforce CPQ solutions, shortening your sales cycle, and generating a higher ROIKey FeaturesMaximize sales by reducing turnaround time and providing a quick analysis of profits and lossesGet up to speed with Salesforce CPQ concepts, best practices, and tips when choosing the right CPQ implementation strategyImplement CPQ configurations and automations for B2B and B2C business scenariosBook DescriptionSalesforce CPQ is innovative software that enables you create better quotes, improve quoting accuracy, and maximize sales and deals. It also provides a quick analysis of profits and losses, helping you improve the overall execution of sales processes, and allows a great deal of flexibility for your prospects, customers, and business partners. The book starts with the Quote-2-Cash business process in Salesforce and shows you how to assess when a business needs to implement CPQ. You'll then progress to configuring opportunities, quotes, and CPQ products. As you advance, you'll understand how to define and configure price books, price rules for CPQ quote automation, multidimensional quoting, and more. Next, you'll look at how to configure CPQ guided selling and create package configurations, contracts, and amendments. Later chapters will demonstrate how to perform data migration from a legacy system and the order in which the objects are to be migrated. You'll also explore CPQ billing and its advantages with the help of different use cases before learning about Industries CPQ and how it is different from standard Salesforce CPQ. Finally, you'll discover best practices for achieving optimal CPQ performance and avoiding performance bottlenecks.By the end of this Salesforce book, you'll be able to implement Salesforce CPQ for any business.What you will learnUnderstand Quote-2-Cash business processes and configure opportunities and quotesCreate custom CPQ actions and use custom filters for automating business needsDiscover how to configure products and product rulesUnderstand the CPQ pricing structure and methods, rules, multidimensional quoting, and quote automationExplore the CPQ data model and use the Salesforce Schema Builder to view and configure object relationshipsConfigure contracts, amendments, and renewals in SalesforceFocus on CPQ billing and its advantagesGain comprehensive insights into Industries CPQWho this book is forThis book is for Salesforce administrators, business analysts, functional consultants, sales managers, Salesforce architects, and those looking to gain Salesforce CPQ certification. Working knowledge of the Salesforce ecosystem is recommended to get the most out of this book.
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Economist video. Is the stockmarket facing a radical shift?
European and Asian stocks are outperforming American ones. But investors are also noticing deeper changes too. What's going on? Our finance correspondent, Joshua Roberts, explains.
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Social Stock Exchange – An Innovative Mechanism for Philanthropy through Bourse
Purpose: Two decades ago, Brazil established a formal social stock exchange, followed by several other countries. This unique concept links social enterprises with philanthropic investors, but their success rate is low. This paper analyzes the mechanisms of social stock exchanges in different countries and identifies factors affecting their success. Design: The present study is exploratory in nature whereby an attempt has been made to understand the framework of social stock exchanges established across the globe. Findings: The failure of social stock exchanges in Brazil, South Africa, Portugal, and the UK can be attributed to lack of investor awareness, higher economic cost for registered social enterprises and limited funding options in less diversified projects. However, the model of SSE is operational in other three countries apart from India. Originality: The concept of the social stock exchange is in the infancy stage and limited work has been done in this domain. The present paper attempts to make a significant contribution to the literature by providing a detailed analysis of such exchanges. Research limitations: The present paper is based on secondary data and inclusion of primary data can augment the findings. Practical implications: SSEs can be miraculous in addressing financial constraints in social enterprises but the concept still could not get momentum. The present paper aims to address challenges that hinder the success of these exchanges. Social implications: The findings of the study could improve the functioning of these exchanges, thereby supporting the financing of enterprises aimed at socio-economic upliftment in the deprived sections.
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The impact of intellectual capital on firm’s financial performance: empirical evidence from Bahrain
This study contributes to the intellectual capital (IC) area of literature by investigating the impact of IC on the firm’s financial performance of two main sectors in the Bahrain Bourse, financial and service sectors, during five years, 2013–2017. The study employs canonical correlation analysis as a unique statistical method to analyze data gathered from 29 sampled companies, representing 145 firm-year observations over the five years. Two groups of variables are employed. The first represents the firm’s financial performance with two variables (return on equity – ROE and return on assets – ROA), while the second includes three intellectual capital components, namely human, customer, and structural capital. Findings related to the financial sector reveal that all IC components (human capital, customer capital, and structural capital) have positive correlations with firm performance except for the labor costs variable (the sub-variable of human capital), which has a negative correlation with firm’s performance. Human capital is also found to be the most significant component of the IC, while structural capital is reported as the lowest effect on the firm’s performance, consistent with some previous research findings. Furthermore, the services sector results revealed that IC is significantly associated with the firm’s performance. Moreover, two sub-variables of human capital (number of Bahraini employees and labor costs) have the most significant impact on the firm’s performance.
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Intellectual capital and firm performance
PurposeThis study sheds light on the relation between intellectual capital and firm performance. The study argues that traditional performance measurement based on accounting is still able to explore the relation between intellectual capital and performance.Design/methodology/approachThe study was conducted at 198 firms from two Gulf Cooperation Council countries: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Kingdom of Bahrain for the period 2014–2016. To measure intellectual capital, the value added intellectual coefficient model was adopted along with two measures of performance: accounting-based performance which is return on assets and market-based performance which is Tobin’s Q, in addition to the Random-Effects Regression.FindingsStudy findings came up with evidences that support the relationship between intellectual capital and accounting-based performance, but negates any relation between intellectual capital and market-based performance. The findings also revealed different results, between Saudi Arabia’s and those of Bahrain.Originality/valueThe study contributes to the debate on the validity of relating intellectual capital to the traditional accounting-based performance.
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The lucky few and the worthy many
Contents: Strengthening nationally and internationally competitive scholarships: an overview / Alice Stone Ilchman, Warren F. Ilchman, and Mary Hale Tolar -- WICS. a model for selecting students for nationally competitive scholarships / Robert J. Sternberg and Elena L. Grigorenko -- Art and science in strengthening scholarship selection / Stanley J. Heginbotham -- The evaluation of scholarship programs / Michele Lamont -- Pathways to prominence. explaining contours of career hierarchy of American Rhodes scholars / Ted I.K. Youn and Karen D. Arnold, with Mandy Savitz and Susan Legere -- Appendix 1. Opportunities for competitive scholarships. objectives and brief descriptions of selected nationally and internationally competitive fellowship programs.
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The Myth of the Amateur
In this in-depth look at the heated debates over paying college athletes, Ronald A. Smith starts at the beginning: the first intercollegiate athletics competition—a crew regatta between Harvard and Yale—in 1852, when both teams received an all-expenses-paid vacation from a railroad magnate. This striking opening sets Smith on the path of a story filled with paradoxes and hypocrisies that plays out on the field, in meeting rooms, and in courtrooms—and that ultimately reveals that any insistence on amateurism is invalid, because these athletes have always been paid, one way or another.From that first contest to athletes’ attempts to unionize and California’s 2019 Fair Pay to Play Act, Smith shows that, throughout the decades, undercover payments, hiring professional coaches, and breaking the NCAA’s rules on athletic scholarships have always been part of the game. He explores how the regulation of male and female student-athletes has shifted; how class, race, and gender played a role in these transitions; and how the case for amateurism evolved from a moral argument to one concerned with financially and legally protecting college sports and the NCAA. Timely and thought-provoking, The Myth of the Amateur is essential reading for college sports fans and scholars.
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