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Sovereign wealth funds

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Sovereign wealth funds.

Summary:

Sovereign Wealth Funds have become increasingly powerful and influential investors. Their increasing role, and unusual character as both political and market actors, raise a number of issues with regard to finance, politics, regulation, and international business. This handbook draws together the growing but fragmented research on SWFs.

Contents:

A Financial Force to be Reckoned With? An Overview of Sovereign Wealth Funds / Veljko Fotak, Xuechen Gao, William L. Megginson
Strangers Are Not All Danger: SWF Investment in the Energy Industry / Di Wang
Investment Terms and Level of Control of China's Sovereign Wealth Fund in its Portfolio Firms / Jing Li
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Private Equity / Douglas Michael Wright, Kevin Amess
Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Resource Curse - Resource funds and governance in resource-rich countries / Jędrzej George Frynas
The Norwegian Government Pension Fund-Global and the Implications of its Activities for Stakeholders / Geoffrey Wood, Noel O'Sullivan, Marc Goergen, Marijana Baric
The Australian Future Fund / Xi-Chong Xu
Is it possible to avoid the St. Augustine Syndrome of fiscal procrastination? The Case of Chile / Eric Parrado
The China Investment Corporation: From Inception to Sideline / Christopher Balding, Kevin Chastagner
Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Global Political Economy of Trust and Legitimacy / Gordon L. Clark, Adam D. Dixon
Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Persian Gulf States / Gawdat Bahgat
Sovereign Funds and Domestic Political Risk / Paul Rose
From Financialization to Vulture Developmentalism: South-North Strategic Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment and the Politics of the 'Quadruple Bottom Line' / Daniel Haberly
Introducing Sovereign Wealth Funds / Douglas Cumming, Igor Filatotchev, Juliane Reinecke, Geoffrey Wood
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Foreign Policy / Kathryn C. Lavelle
Sovereign Wealth and the Extraterritorial Manipulation of Corporate Conduct: A Multifaceted Paradigm in Transnational Law / Salar Ghahramani
Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment and Firm Volatility / April Knill, Nathan Mauck
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Investment Choices and Implications around the World / Nuno Fernandes
Sovereign Development Funds: The Governance and Management of Strategic Investment Institutions / Peter Bruce-Clark, Ashby H.B Monk
Co-investments of sovereign wealth funds in private equity / Joseph A. McCahery, F. Alexander de Roode
The Use of Debt by Sovereign Wealth Fund / Stefano Lugo, Fabio Bertoni
Sovereign wealth fund investments and industry performance: Evidence from Europe / Sophie Béreau, Jean-Yves Gnabo, Malik Kerkour, Hélène Raymond
Spain and Sovereign Wealth Funds: Four Strategic Governance Types / Javier Capape, Ruth Aguilera, Javier Santiso
Sovereign Wealth Funds in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) / Piotr Wiśniewski.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 2, 2017).

Contributor:

Cumming, Douglas, editor.
Wood, Geoffrey E., 1945- editor.
Filatotchev, Igor, editor.
Reinecke, Juliane, editor.

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Print version :

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9780191816291 (ebook) :

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