The introduction of a regulatory framework in the area of collective management of rights in Nigeria must have been intended to strengthen the creative industry. Unfortunately, it has thrown this industry and in particular the music and film industries into a battle of a regulated against a non-regulated collective administration sector for upward of twenty (20) years. My choice of research on this topic could be attributed to the interest I developed while administering the collective administration desk at the Nigerian Copyright Commission. Serving on that desk afforded the opportunity to see the frustration of right owners who were being deprived the fruit of their labor, as the societies meant to collect and distribute royalties on their behalf were enmeshed in litigations and in the process, rarely paid any royalties to authors. Within this context, this research seeks to explore whether there is any merit in the continued existence of the current regulatory framework for collective management in Nigeria, and what the best operational framework for collective administration in Nigeria would be. A methodological approach entailing literature review of books, articles, journals, legislation, cases, reports of committees and interviews with experts was adopted, with critical analysis carried out on particularly the Nigerian Copyright Act, the Nigerian Copyright (collective management organisation) regulation, the South African Copyright Act, the South African Performers’ Protection Act, the South African Collecting Societies Regulation, as well as judicial decisions challenging certain provisions in the Nigerian legislation. It is hoped that this research will spur a desire for the need for supervisory and regulatory agencies of government to seek the national interest above all others in taking and making decisions that affect the collective administration of copyright and related rights. / Mercantile law / LL.M. (Intellectual Property)

Existing literature and theories related to the separation of ownership and control and its impact on companies' financial performance, including dividend payment have left this subject in state of ambiguity and uncleamess, with various contradictions and inconsistencies being noted. In order to establish whether there is a significant difference in financial performance between owner-controlled and management-controlled companies in South Africa, as a result of the separation of ownership and control, this study has used appropriate mathematical and statistical methods for data processing and analysis. Results obtained from the study have revealed the existence of a significant difference in financial performance between owner-controlled and management-controlled companies in South Africa, as measured in terms of profitability, asset management, liquidity, leverage and dividend payment. The analysis has indicated that management-controlled companies have been more efficient, more mature financially and paying higher dividends, out of earnings available to shareholders, than their owner-controlled counterparts. / Business Management / M. Comm. (Business Management)

住宅為兼具消費及投資之雙重功能財貨，因此若從購屋動機劃分購屋族群，可以分為自住者及投資者，近年來受到國內房市呈現生氣蓬勃之景象及利率持續走低等總體經濟因素影響之下，出現越來越多以投資為主要目的之投資型購屋者，對於金融機構之購屋貸款業務來說，投資者之還款行為相較於自住者是比較不穩定的。故本文之研究目的即藉由探討自住者及投資者之購屋特徵異同，建立投資者之機率預測模型，預測某購屋者成為投資者之機率，提供一較為客觀之機率預測模型，供作金融機構放貸參考準則。接著進一步探討在不同機率界限（cutoff point）下之預測準確率，找出預測準確率最高之機率界限值，提高本模型之預測準確度；並探討金融機構在不同經營方針下之較適機率界限值。 / 本文使用台灣住宅需求動向季報之已購屋者問卷，建立二元羅吉特模型。研究結果顯示，區位在中心都市、高單價、小面積產品及大面積產品、預售屋及拍賣屋市場屬於投資型產品，而搜尋時間短、搜尋間數少、年齡較長、男性、無固定職業及家庭平均月收入較高者成為投資者之機率較高。接著，運用貝氏定理計算出預測準確率最高之機率界限值，結果當機率界限值為0.70時預測準確率最高，投資者達72.22%，自住者達80.07%。此外，並使用2007Q4的資料作樣本外驗證，投資者命中率為65.52%，自住者命中率為84.51%。最後，為提供金融機構運用，本文模擬兩種預測誤差在不同權重下對於金融機構所造成的損失，找出損失最少的機率界限值，結果皆是以0.70為最適機率界限值。 / Housing is dual function goods, consumption and investment, so if we separate the home buyers by their motives, they can be defined as two groups, owner-occupiers and investors. Recently, because the housing market is vigorous inland and the rates are fairly low, there are more and more home buyers buying houses for investment. To financial institutions, their payment behaviors are more instable, compare to owner-occupiers. So this article is aim to build a probability predictive model of housing investors by discussing the different home buying characters between owner-occupiers and investors. Therefore we can provide financing institutions a more objective method evaluating if they should lend money to the home buyers. Then we discuss the predictive accuracy with different cutoff points, finding the cutoff point with highest predictive accuracy, therefore we can elevate the model`s predictive accuracy. Besides, we also discuss the most optimal cutoff point for financial institutions under different administration principles. / This article builds binary logit model by the data of “Housing Demand Survey in Taiwan”. Our results suggests that if the houses in downtown、high unit price、big and small acreage、presale and court auction housing market belong to investing houses. And short search duration、few search items、older、male、non-constant job、higher income are getting higher probability to be housing investors. Then, we use Bayesian Theorem to figure out the cutoff point with highest predictive accuracy, and Our results suggests that 0.70 cutoff point with highest predictive accuracy , at that time, investor predictive accuracy is 72.22%, owner-occupier is 80.07%. Besides, we also do the out-sample test by the 2007Q4 data, the investor`s hit-rate is65.52%, the owner-occupier`s hit-rate is 84.51%. At the end, in order to provide financial institution to use, we give two predictive deviation different weights, to find the smallest loss cutoff point, the result all suggest that 0.70 is the most optimal cutoff point.

La fiducie est à la fois un concept ancien et un outil moderne protéiforme, capable de remplir les fonctions les plus diverses. Introduite en 2007 en droit français, la fiducie prend de l’ampleur et il devient nécessaire de s’intéresser à une problématique essentielle : la responsabilité du fiduciaire. La fiducia romaine comme le trust anglo-saxon ont montré que l’efficacité de sa mise en œuvre était primordiale pour assurer le succès de l’institution. Pourtant, les textes relatifs à la fiducie sont largement incomplets, tant en ce qui concerne le mécanisme lui-même, que la responsabilité de son principal acteur, le fiduciaire. A cet égard, l’article 2026 du Code civil donne pour toute indication que « le fiduciaire est responsable, sur son patrimoine propre, des fautes qu'il commet dans l'exercice de sa mission ». Ambigüe et discutable, cette disposition ne révèle pas tout son sens à première lecture. L’analyse historique, comparative et exégétique des textes permet de comprendre le mécanisme de la fiducie. Un régime cohérent de responsabilité du fiduciaire – à la fois propriétaire et obligé, à la tête d’un patrimoine d’affectation – peut alors être dégagé, qui réalise l’équilibre entre les différents intérêts en présence, tout en assurant la protection du constituant et du bénéficiaire. / The trust is both an ancient concept and a modern instrument which can fulfill the most diverse functions. Introduced in France in 2007, the French fiducie is growing and it has become necessary to focus on a key issue : the liability of the French trustee. Roman fiducia and the Anglo-Saxon trust have shown that the efficiency of its implementation was crucial to the success of the institution. Yet, the rules regarding the fiducie mechanism and the liability of its main actor are largely incomplete. In this regard, Article 2026 of the French Civil code only indicates that “the trustee is responsible, on his own property, for breaches of the trust committed during the performance of its mission”. Ambiguous and debatable, this provision does not reveal its meaning at first reading. An historical, comparative and exegetical analysis entitles the reader to understand the mechanism of the French fiducie. A coherent structure of the liability of the French trustee – both owner of a separate patrimony and debtor to the settlor and the beneficiary – can be drawn, which results in a balanced system between the different interests in consideration, while ensuring the protection of the settlor and the beneficiary.

Exploration of the influences that an owner can have on his own media is an important topic nowadays. This master thesis focuses on the possible owner influences on his newspaper in the example of buying of the publishing house Mafra by Agrofert's owner Andrej Babis. It covers articles concerning Agrofert in two of Mafra's dailies - Mlada fronta Dnes and Lidove noviny. The reporting period covers two years before and two years after the purchase of Mafra by the owner of Agrofert and the current Czech Minister of Finance Andrej Babis. This covers the dates 5. 6. 2011 - 24. 6. 2013 and 25. 6. 2013 - 24. 6. 2015. This thesis uses the processes of quantitative content analysis and focuses on the comparison of texts about Agrofert in these two periods. In the sample of 631 articles it examines two dozen categories, such as topic, placement on the page as well as in the daily itself or quotation of Andrej Babis, and it tracks the changes that occurred in both halves of the reporting period. The shift in content of the Mafra's media, after the change of its owner has not been largely examined yet. This means that this thesis brings a first complex insight into the topic. This thesis aims to cover the changes that occurred in the reporting period and paves the way for more specific following researches....

The graduation thesis is primaly focused on problems of specialities of accountancy in joint-stock company in Czech republic. Between these specialities we comprise increases and decreases in the registered capital and distribution of income or payment of loss. The subject of this thesis is the application of accounting, tax and legal enactments on joint-stock company.

The dissertation titled "Protection of property rights in the decision-making practice of courts in the Czech Republic" gives a holistic view of the decisions of courts of general judicial system and the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic in matters relating to the conditions, manner, and limits of the property rights protection. The topic is understood as an interpretation of various institutes in which the courts' decisions claims the most, and as a summary of judgments reflecting every single institute. The dissertation captures the judicial decision-making practice, taking into account the state of the legislation in force until 31 December 2013. The empirical part of the dissertation which corresponds to the selected assignment is preceded by a necessary interpretation of theoretical, doctrinal and historical bases of the topic. The dissertation also reminds the in time-varying insight into the nature, meaning and object of property rights and on the level and ways of protection in the Roman law jurisprudence and civil codes that directly affected the courts application practice in the territory of the present-day Czech Republic. An interpretation of privatization and restitution process that took place in our society after 1989 is an important link between the theoretical and the...

The treatment of owner-occupied housing (OOH) is probably the most important unresolved issue in inflation measurement. How -- and whether -- it is included in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) affects inflation expectations, the measured level of real interest rates, and the behavior of governments, central banks and market participants. We show that none of the existing treatments of OOH are fit for purpose. Hence we propose a new simplified user cost method with better properties. Using a micro-level dataset, we then compare the empirical behavior of eight different treatments of OOH. Our preferred user cost approach pushes up the CPI during housing booms (by 2 percentage points or more). Our findings relate to the following important debates in macroeconomics: the behavior of the Phillips curve in the US during the global financial crisis, and the response of monetary policy to housing booms, secular stagnation, and globalization. / Series: Department of Economics Working Paper Series

Este trabalho tem como objetivo contribuir para o entendimento do significado político e econômico da criação da instituição de aprendizagem industrial, o SENAI, nascido em 1942, partindo da investigação de algumas das principais experiências regionais com o ensino industrial e das forças políticas e ideológicas que as sustentavam e de como estes conhecimentos acumulados na educação profissional em alguns dos principais Estados da União, entre eles São Paulo, Minas Gerais e Rio Grande do Sul, acabaram por pautar boa parte do debate sobre o tema do ensino profissional, influenciando as tentativas federais para a institucionalização da aprendizagem industrial no âmbito do mundo do trabalho operário, assim como também justificar as resistências do empresariado industrial a esta intervenção principalmente na segunda metade da década de 1930 e início dos anos 1940. Também discutimos a importância da aliança política entre o núcleo do Governo Vargas e o grupo industrialista sediado nas principais representações de classe da burguesia industrial daquele período, entre as quais o CIESP/ FIESP e a CNI, que objetivando o controle e direcionamento do mercado de trabalho dentro do consenso autoritário e nacionalista estadonovista puderam construir, no contexto econômico adverso da Segunda Grande Guerra e dos anos seguintes, um sistema escolar paraestatal de aprendizagem industrial de notável longevidade e adaptabilidade frente as diferentes conjunturas e demandas da indústria nacional por mão-de-obra qualificada, sistema de aprendizagem este que foi visto no seu formato e proposta pedagógica iniciais. / This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of political and economic significance of the creation of industrial learning institution, SENAI, born in 1942, based on the investigation of some of the main regional experiences with the industrial education and political and ideological forces that maintained and how these knowledge accumulated in professional education in some main states of the Union, including Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul, eventually guided much of the debate on the topic of vocational education, federal attempts to influence the institutionalization of learning within the industrial world of work laborer, as well as justify the resistance of the industrial business to this intervention especially in the second half of the 1930s and early 1940s. We will also discuss the importance of the political alliance between the core of Vargas government and industrial group based in the main class of representations of the industrial bourgeoisie of that period, including CIESP / FIESP and CNI, which aimed at controlling and directing of the labor market within the New State authoritarian and nationalist consensus could build, in the adverse economic context of the Second World War and subsequent years, a school system learning parastatal industrial of remarkable longevity and adaptability to face different circumstances and demands of the domestic industry for skilled labor, learning system that was be seen in its original format and pedagogical proposal.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:23:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bruno Yoheiji Kono Ramos.pdf: 2928259 bytes, checksum: 7e341eff77bae233dc21be6a91d210f5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-10-22 / Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment / The study of mining rights in Brazil is still incipient, despite the mining economic activity traced to Brazilian colonization by Portugal. This is verified by the few answers right in a case involving the mining itself, which become rarer when the environmental variables and land are incorporated. Therefore, the present research aimed to develop studies that cover the legal consequences for mining on the occupational status of the space where you plan to develop its activities, being analyzed the Amazon, in particular, the State of Pará, since the same time appearing as a mineral producer on the rise due to the quality and quantity of minerals found in its territory, on the other hand, presents emblematic cases of illegal appropriation of public lands and natural resources, causing legal uncertainty and social instability, causing injury to population, damage to the treasury and the miner himself, and away from new opportunities that are conducted in support of sensible sustainable development, may convert the mineral wealth of the desired endogenous development, as occurred in the United States, Canada, Chile and Australia. For this, we used library resources deaths in legal, social and economic sciences, as well as legislative and jurisprudential research. In addition, we sought to spatial analysis using maps of the relationship between land use and mining property, as well as raising the legal-ownership status and amounts paid CFEM seven mining projects run on public lands in the Amazon to estimate the amount due to the participation of the owner in the mining results. As a result we attempted to contextualize the government and the mining on land tenure and occupational land in Pará State, demonstrate the need to internalize the costs of production, the economic use of the public as well as environmental soil in compliance with the principle of user-payer and also propose the construction of public policies that address land use regulation as an essential tool for reducing environmental conflicts over access to land and other natural resources such as mining / O estudo do direito minerário no Brasil ainda é incipiente, não obstante a atividade econômica minerária remontar à colonização brasileira por Portugal. Esta situação é verificada pelas poucas respostas do direito perante os casos envolvendo a mineração em si, que se tornam mais raras quando as variáveis ambiental e fundiária são incorporadas. Por isso, o presente trabalho de pesquisa pretendeu desenvolver estudos que abarcam os reflexos jurídicos para mineração diante da situação ocupacional do espaço onde pretende desenvolver suas atividades, sendo objeto de análise a Amazônia, em especial, o Estado do Pará, visto que, ao mesmo tempo que figura como produtor mineral em ascensão em razão da qualidade e quantidade dos minérios encontrados no seu território, por outro lado, apresenta casos emblemáticos de apropriação ilegal de terras públicas e de recursos naturais, causando insegurança jurídica e instabilidade social, causadoras de prejuízos a população, lesão ao erário e ao próprio minerador, além de afastar novas oportunidades que, se conduzidas em prol do desenvolvimento sustentável sensato, poderão converter as riquezas minerais no pretendido desenvolvimento endógeno, como ocorrido nos Estados Unidos, Canadá, Chile e Austrália. Para tanto, utilizou-se de recursos bibliográficos óbitos nas ciências jurídica, social e econômica, além de pesquisa legislativa e jurisprudencial. Além disso, buscou-se a análise espacial através de mapas da relação entre a ocupação do solo e a propriedade minerária, bem como levantar a situação jurídica-fundiária e os valores pagos a título da CFEM de sete empreendimentos minerários executados em terrenos públicos na Amazônia para estimar o valor devido a título de participação do proprietário nos resultados da lavra. Como resultado buscou-se contextualizar os poderes públicos e o minerador sobre a situação fundiária e ocupacional das terras no Estado do Pará, demonstrar a necessidade de internalizar nos custos de produção o uso econômico do solo público enquanto bem ambiental em cumprimento do princípio do usuário-pagador e, ainda, propor a construção de políticas públicas que contemplem a regularização fundiária como instrumento essencial para redução de conflitos socioambientais pelo acesso a terra e demais recursos naturais como o minerário