The advanced producer services complex as an obligatory passage point: evidence from rent extraction by investment banks by Pazitka, V, Bassens, D, van Meeteren, M, Wójcik, D

“…Investment banks and other advanced producer services play key roles in underwriting of securities, raising questions whether underwriting is a competitive process. …”

Dirty banking: probing the gap in sustainable finance by Urban, M, Wojcik, D

“…Second, we propose to study how investment banks integrate sustainability in their underwriting services. To do so, we filter through close to half a million of debt and equity underwriting deals (2005–2017) using the Government Pension Fund Global of Norway’s list of 153 excluded companies. …”

Government of Singapore investment corporation (GIC): Insurer of last resort and bulwark of nation-state legitimacy. by Clark, G, Monk, A

“…In fact, in a number of East Asian countries SWFs have acted as 'insurers of last resort' for their nation-states underwriting financial stability and social welfare. …”

Chain-Ladder as Maximum Likelihood Revisited. by Kuang, D, Nielsen, B, Nielsen, J

“…The boundary problem where all observations in one particular development year or on particular underwriting year is zero is also analysed.…”

Financial Innovation and First-Mover Advantages by Tufano, P

“…However, banks capture a larger share of underwritings with innovations than with imitative products. …”

Henry James, George Eliot, and the "old-fashioned English novel" by Bryan, R

“…In particular it traces how James's dissatisfaction with texts where Eliot had seemed to place insufficient demands upon her readers' faculties helped give rise to the innovative type of psychological realism underwriting his own work, which by soliciting the imagination of possibility would succeed in pushing the representational capacity of prose fiction deeper still into the life of the mind.…”

Global integration in primary equity markets: the role of U.S. banks and U.S. investors by Jenkinson, T, Ljungqvist, A, Wilhelm, W

“…We examine the costs and benefits of the global integration of initial public offering (IPO) markets associated with the diffusion of U.S. underwriting methods in the 1990s. Bookbuilding is becoming increasingly popular outside the United States and typically costs twice as much as a fixed‐price offer. …”

Does the fossil fuel divestment movement impact new oil and gas fundraising? by Cojoianu, T, Ascui, F, Clark, G, Hoepner, A, Wojcik, D

“…This paper explores whether increasing fossil fuel divestment commitments are related to the reduction of capital flows into the oil and gas sector, based on an analysis of syndicated lending, equity and bond underwriting across 33 countries from 2000 to 2015. We find that increasing oil & gas divestment pledges in a country are associated with lower capital flows to domestic oil and gas companies. …”

Genomics and insurance in the United Kingdom: increasing complexity and emerging challenges by Dixon, P, Horton, R, Newman, W, McDermott, J, Lucassen, A

“…We discuss three core issues: (1) As genomic testing advances, and results are increasingly relevant to guide healthcare across an individual's lifetime, the distinction between diagnostic and predictive testing that the current UK insurance code relies on becomes increasingly blurred (2) The emerging category of pharmacogenetic tests that are predictive only the in the context of a specific prescribing moment (3) The increasing availability and affordability of polygenic scores that are neither clearly diagnostic nor highly predictive, but which nonetheless might have incremental value for insurance underwriting beyond conventional factors. We suggest a deliberative approach is required to establish when and how genetic information can be used in risk-rated insurance.…”

Global Integration in Primary Equity Markets: The Role of U.S. Banks and U.S. Investors. by Ljungqvist, A, Jenkinson, T, Wilhelm, W

“…We examine the costs and benefits of the global integration of initial public offering (IPO) markets associated with the diffusion of U.S. underwriting methods in the 1990s. Bookbuilding is becoming increasingly popular outside the United States and typically costs twice as much as a fixed-price offer. …”

Insuring future automobility: a qualitative discussion of British and Dutch car insurer's responses to connected and automated vehicles by Kester, J

“…Interviewees anticipate that the outcome of these discussions will affect their underwriting, risks, claims processes, business models, product offerings and competitive strategies. …”

'Capitalist tools in socialist hands'? China Mobile in global financial networks by Wojcik, D, Camilleri, J

“…The study highlights the position of Hong Kong as an onshore-offshore financial centre intermediating between global financial markets and mainland China, and underwriting the reputation of China's 'national champions'. …”

'Capitalist tools in socialist hands'? China Mobile in the global financial networks by Wojcik, D, Camilleri, J

“…The case study highlights the position of Hong Kong as an onshore-offshore financial centre intermediating between global financial markets and Mainland China, and underwriting the reputation of China’s ‘national champions’. …”

Metastable oscillatory modes emerge from synchronization in the brain spacetime connectome by Cabral, J, Castaldo, F, Vohryzek, J, Litvak, V, Bick, C, Lambiotte, R, Friston, K, Kringelbach, M, Deco, G

“…However, the principles underwriting coherent oscillations and their link with neural activity remain under debate. …”

Dominic Scott: Levels of argument by Nielsen, K

“…What is distinctive about Scott’s approach is his comparative perspective: the book discerningly elucidates the meta-ethical assumptions underwriting Plato and Aristotle’s inquiries into virtue and happiness, and reveals points of affinity that have hitherto been underexplored. …”

Raising Contingent Capital: The Case of Cephalon by Chacko, G, Tufano, P, Verter, G

“…The authors' analysis suggests that the cost of the capped calls—underwriting fees, expenses, underpricing, and market impact—was quite high compared to alternative sources of financing that may have been available to Cephalon in the wake of a favorable decision by the FDA. …”

From Corporatism to Public Utilities: Workplace Pensions in the 21st Century. by Clark, G

“…It is argued that the rise of public utilities in this domain is indicative of the transformation of corporate capitalism over the past 25 years and the realisation that the costs of neoliberalism may be so significant that governments have to take responsibility, once again, for underwriting retirement welfare.…”

Connectivity and growth: financial centres in investment banking networks by Pažitka, V, Urban, M, Wojcik, D

“…We contribute to this debate by studying underwriting of equity and debt securities, which represent some of the core activities of financial centres. …”

Cholesterol screening and life assurance. by Neil, H, Mant, D

“…DESIGN: Survey of 49 companies underwriting term life assurance. SETTING: United Kingdom. …”

The soft power of Chinese law by Erie, M

“…Pre-existing models to understand how China is doing so, mainly, those based on the English or American experiences, mostly miss the mark. Rather than underwriting hard power, law in the Chinese case functions to boost China’s soft power: its ability to align the interests of host states with its own. …”