Privateers of the caribbean: The hedge funds-us-uk-offshore nexus

Competition and Change

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 37-53

  Fichtner, Jan ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differential gain; Hedge funds; Offshore; Privateers; UK; US

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893801564     PISSN: 10245294     EISSN: 14772221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1024529413Z.00000000047     Document Type: Article

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