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by Marc Deloof

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Wel merkwaardig dat dit artikel in @standaard.be niet vermeldt dat Henri Le Boeuf de schoonzoon (en werknemer) van Albert Thys was, de drijvende kracht achter het grootste (en meest succesvolle) zakenimperium in de Congo Vrijstaat.
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by Marc Deloof

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Absoluut Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul.
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by Marc Deloof

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New publication with Luca Farè, Michele Meoli and Silvio Vismara, in which we investigate the relation between board size and IPO value before WW1 when investor protection was very weak. We find a substantial relation, especially for firms operating abroad. Open access. doi.org/10.1111/corg...
Board of Directors and Initial Public Offerings in Unregulated Financial Markets: Evidence From Belgium a Century Ago
Research Question/Issue At the turn of the 20th century, firms raised capital in a highly unregulated market characterized by severe information asymmetries and weak legal protection. In such a cont.....
doi.org
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by Marc Deloof — Reposted by Marc Deloof

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Artikel in Bank- en Financiewezen: financialforum.be/nl/bfw-digit...
Waren ondernemingen in de Congo-Vrijstaat een goede belegging?
De Congo-Vrijstaat was een staat die tussen 1885 en 1908 werd bestuurd door koning Leopold II van België. Een exploderende wereldwijde vraag naar rubber…
financialforum.be
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by Marc Deloof

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Waren onder­ne­min­gen in de Con­go-Vrij­staat een goe­de beleg­ging? Kort antwoord: de meeste waren rampzalige beleggingen, maar met een paar grote uitzonderingen.

Zie link naar artikel hieronder.
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Congratulations!
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Companies are buying Bitcoin to pump up their stock price & fend off short-sellers. “The strategy … relies on bitcoin retaining its value. If it crashes, executives admit the fallout could be destabilising.” No shit Sherlock.
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by Thomas Lambert — Reposted by Marc Deloof

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❗ Submission deadline ... ❗

... to submit a paper to the ENTFIN's 2025 Annual Meeting at @rsmerasmus.bsky.social is approaching

Please send your submissions by March 23, 2025 to [email protected]

More info entfin.org
ENTFIN CfP
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by Marc Deloof

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PowerPoint presentaties zijn het nieuwe mammoet schieten!
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Thanks!
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Do you have any recommendations of literature on this?
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by Marc Deloof

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1898 issue of "Tramways Electriques de Gand" shares & bonds, one of the first electric tramways in Belgium. The original plan was to have trams with batteries because trams with overhead wires were considered too ugly by the city council, but the battery technology turned out not to be feasible.
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by Marc Deloof

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“Polls have shown that principal investigator biologists now spend up to 40 percent of their time—it’s a shocking number, 40 percent of their time—writing grants.”

marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
Why are Top Scientists Leaving Harvard? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Harvard magazine has an excellent interview with three scientists, Michael Mina, Douglas Melton and Stuart Schreiber, all highly regarded in their fields of life sciences, who have recently left Harva...
marginalrevolution.com
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by Marc Deloof

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Walking around Antwerp I came across the former HQ of insurance company Securitas, which was the very first limited liability company in Belgium.
Founded in 1819 when Belgium was part of The Netherlands. The current building dates from 1924. Now an apartment building.
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Is de studie ergens beschikbaar?
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by Marc Deloof

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Does government restricting the formation of limited liability companies because this company form was ‘unfair competition’ count?
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Reposted by Marc Deloof, Kim Oosterlinck

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V The Observer:
‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo..
This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
‘I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo
Over 70 years ago, thousands of mixed-race boys and girls were torn from their mothers by order of the state. This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity
www.theguardian.com
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Hoe is dat berekend?
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