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Standard Life Investments awards Harvard and Stockholm professors
16 May 2013 | Fundweb
Standard Life Investments has awarded its Annual Finance Prize to two professors from Harvard and Stockholm. The winning paper, ‘Fiduciary duties and equity-debtholder conflicts’ by Dr Bo Becker from Harvard Business School and Professor Per Strömberg from Stockholm School of Economics and the Univ

Standard Life Prize goes to study of conflict between debt and equity holders
16 May 2013 | Investment Europe
Standard Life Investments, the global fund manager, has awarded its prestigious Annual Finance Prize to two professors from Harvard and Stockholm for their investigation into the effect that management fiduciary duties have when there is conflict between equity and debt holders of a company in finan

Latvians voted on ethnic lines, and with their feet
16 May 2013 | Financial Times Print Edition (Europe)
From Dr Jeffrey Sommers. Sir, Unfortunately for Latvians, Martin Wolf's analysis of the Latvian crisis is all too accurate ("Why the Baltic states are no model", Comment, May 1), while that of Erik Berglöf and Piroska M.

Shadow economy in Latvia in 2012 reduces, but still ahead of Estonia and Lithuania
15 May 2013 | The Baltic Course
The shadow economy reduced to 21.1% of gross domestic product in Latvia in 2012, according a study on the shadow economy in the Baltic States presented at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga today. The shadow economy grew to 18.2% of GDP in Lithuania and 19.2% in Estonia in 2012, writes LETA/N

Shadow economy in Latvia reduces to 21.1% of GDP
15 May 2013 | Leta
RIGA, May 15 (NOZARE.LV) - The shadow economy reduced to 21.1 percent of gross domestic product in Latvia in 2012, according a study on the shadow economy in the Baltic States presented at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga today.

Sweden's Mutewatch Expanding With Brookstone Partnership
26 April 2013 | Information Week
Time Management Tool Meets Fashion

Swedish company buys 940 hectares of Latvian forest in four years
23 April 2013 | Balticbusinessnews.com
Swedish Zaveria started buying Latvian forestry properties in 2009. Now, the company, which is owned by two investors residing in Sweden, has 940 hectares within a 50 km radius from Jekabpils. reports news2biz LATVIA.

Baltic ambition
18 April 2013 | The Economist
Latvia looks likely to become the euro zone’s 18th member next January

First Model United Nations conference in Latvia, LVMUN 2013
18 April 2013 | Leta
April 18, 2013 The following is a press release from the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga: On the 20th of April, Stockholm School of Economics will host the first MUN conference organized in Latvia.

Economic Diary. Latvia now has “red jackets”
14 April 2013 | Unity.lv
The Red Jackets export aid movement has become active in Latvia. This organization plans to popularize product and service providers that have notable and recognizable brands.

Russian cash ‘not flooding Latvia’
31 March 2013 | Gulf News
Officials play down potential vulnerabilities of Eurozone hopeful

NEW BUSINESSES GET LAB TEST
29 March 2013 | The Voice Online
GBL to accelerate local entrepreneurship Global Business Labs (GBL), a Swedish international business incubation model is expected to give start up companies a leap into international markets following its launch in Botswana recently The GBL model that has a successful ten-year track record at the

Euro zone hopes Latvia is no Cyprus on the Baltic
13 March 2013 | Hellenic Shipping News
They have little else in common, but the Baltic state of Latvia and the Mediterranean island of Cyprus are both magnets for Russian money, making them a focus for European officials concerned about murky banking and financial instability.