1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910309940203321

Autore

Depecker Loïc

Titolo

Entre signe et concept : Éléments de terminologie générale / / Loïc Depecker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2017

ISBN

2-87854-965-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Soggetti

Terms and phrases

Concepts

Signs and symbols

Semantics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

La terminologie, science des vocabulaires spécialisés, pose la question de la relation des signes, des concepts et des choses. L'ouvrage s'efforce de resituer terminologie et linguistique en prenant en considération la problématique du concept.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778888303321

Autore

McCauley Robert N

Titolo

Dodging Bullets : Changing U.S. Corporate Capital Structure in the 1980s and 1990s

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : MIT Press, 2015

ISBN

0-262-26366-1

0-262-27938-X

0-585-17623-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RuddJudith S

IaconoFrank

Disciplina

338.80973

Soggetti

Leveraged buyouts - United States - History - 20th century

Consolidation and merger of corporations - United States - History - 20th century

Corporations - United States - Finance - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-392) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Dodging Bullets""; ""Contents""; ""About the Authors""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""The End of the 1980's""; ""Why the 1980's Stopped: Leveraging as a Mania""; ""Why the 1980's Stopped: Did Judges, Lawmakers, and Regulators Kill the Leveraging Business?""; ""RJR-Nabisco: A Case Study""; ""The 1990's""; ""The Legacy of Debt and Corporate Refinancing in the 1990's""; ""Relieving the Burden of Interest on Cash Flow""; ""The Equity Infusion  Reverse LBO's""; ""Cheap Equity Capital for Young Firms""; ""Mergers and Acquisitions in the 1990's""; ""Lessons""

""Policy and Asset Inflation""""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

An entertaining summary of the broad reshaping of U.S. corporate finance in the last decade and a half.The late 1980s saw a huge wave of corporate leveraging. The U.S. financial landscape was dominated by a series of high-stakes leveraged buyouts as firms replaced their equity with new fixed debt obligations. Cash-financed acquisitions and defensive share repurchases also decapitalized corporations. This trend culminated in the sensational debt-financed bidding for RJR-Nabisco,



the largest leveraged buyout of all time, before dramatically reversing itself in the early 1990s with a rapid return to equity.This entertaining summary of the broad reshaping of U.S. corporate finance in the last decade and a half looks at three major issues: why corporations leveraged up in the first place, why and how the leverage wave came to an end, and what policy lessons are to be drawn.Using the Minsky-Kindleberger model as a framework, the authors interpret the rise and fall of leveraging as a financial market mania. In the course of chronicling the return to equity in the 1990s, they address a number of important corporate finance questions: How important was the return to equity in relieving corporations' debt burdens? How did the return to equity affect the ability of young high-tech firms to finance themselves without selling out to foreign firms?