Search Results - "Lasfer, M."
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The Interrelationship Between Managerial Ownership and Board Structure
Published in Journal of business finance & accounting (01-09-2006)“…: The paper tests the hypothesis that high managerial ownership entrenches managers by allowing the CEO to create a board that is unlikely to monitor. The…”
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Short-term reaction of stock markets in stressful circumstances
Published in Journal of banking & finance (01-10-2003)“…In this paper we document the short-term stock price behaviour following a period of stock market stress. We focus on price behaviour using daily market…”
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The Information Content of Institutional Trades on the London Stock Exchange
Published in Journal of financial and quantitative analysis (01-09-2005)“…We construct a unique data set that includes all reported institutional block trades on the London Stock Exchange and analyze the market reaction to buy and…”
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Do occupational pension funds monitor companies in which they hold large stakes?
Published in Journal of corporate finance (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (2000)“…In this paper we analyze the monitoring role of occupational pension funds in the UK. We argue that because of their objectives, structure and overall share…”
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Cadmium induces mitochondria-dependent apoptosis of normal human hepatocytes
Published in Cell biology and toxicology (2008)“…The heavy metal cadmium, an environmental pollutant, has been widely demonstrated to be toxic, in particular for liver. In murines, cadmium induces apoptosis…”
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Ex-Day Behavior: Tax or Short-Term Trading Effects
Published in The Journal of finance (New York) (01-07-1995)“…This study examines the behavior of share prices around the ex-dividend dates before and after the introduction of the 1988 Income and Corporation Taxes Act…”
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Taxes and dividends: The UK evidence
Published in Journal of banking & finance (01-04-1996)“…This paper provides empirical evidence on the simultaneous effects of both corporation and personal income taxes on dividend payment adjustments and on the…”
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The Determinants of the Leasing Decision of Small and Large Companies
Published in European financial management : the journal of the European Financial Management Association (01-07-1998)“…We analyse the leasing decision of more than 3000 UK quoted and unquoted companies over the sample period 1982–1996. We show that, for the sample as a whole,…”
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On the Motivation for Paying Scrip Dividends
Published in Financial management (01-04-1997)“…This paper investigates why some companies favor paying dividends in the form of shares rather than cash. By comparing firms that pay scrip dividends to firms…”
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Financial Distress, Asset Sales, and Lender Monitoring
Published in Financial management (01-10-1996)“…This paper examines the differing reactions of the stock market to divestments by financially distressed and healthy firms, and the impact of lender monitoring…”
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Scrip Dividends: the Management's View
Published in European financial management : the journal of the European Financial Management Association (01-07-1997)“…This paper examines the motivation underlying the payment of scrip dividends through a questionnaire survey conducted among a sample of companies listed on the…”
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Ex-Day Behavior: Tax or Short-Term Trading Effects
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An evaluation of the role of insulin-like growth factors (IGF) and of type-I IGF receptor signalling in hepatocarcinogenesis and in the resistance of hepatocarcinoma cells against drug-induced apoptosis
Published in Biochemical pharmacology (15-09-2004)“…Strong evidence emphasizes the role of the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system and of type-I IGF receptor (IGF-IR) signalling in tumourigenesis. In this…”
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Role of Constitutively Activated and Insulin-Like Growth Factor-Stimulated ERK1/2 Signaling in Human Hepatoma Cell Proliferation and Apoptosis: Evidence for Heterogeneity of Tumor Cell Lines
Published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (01-12-2004)“…: Enhanced insulin‐like growth factor II (IGF‐II) and type I IGF receptor (IGF‐IR) gene expression in liver tumors and the development of liver tumors in…”
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Potent induction of apoptosis in human hepatoma cell lines by targeted cytotoxic somatostatin analogue AN-238
Published in Journal of hepatology (01-02-2005)“…The efficacy of a targeted cytotoxic hybrid somatostatin analogue AN-238 and of its superactive radical 2-pyrrolinodoxorubicin (AN-201) to induce apoptosis of…”
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Doxorubicin and octreotide induce a 40 kDa breakdown product of p53 in human hepatoma and tumoral colon cell lines
Published in Biochemical journal (15-06-2002)“…The chemotherapeutic drug doxorubicin and the anti-proliferative long-acting somatostatin analogue octreotide, both used in cancer treatment, have been shown…”
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Dividend policy and corporate governance
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