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Employee trust and workplace performance

Brown, Sarah; Gray, Daniel; McHardy, Jolian P.; Taylor, Karl - 2014

We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible mechanisms through which the relationship may operate. We then...

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The impact of teams on output, quality and downtime : an empirical analysis using individual panel data

Jones, Derek Charles (contributor); Kato, Takao (contributor) - 2007

To investigate the size and the timing of the direct impact of participatory arrangements on business performance, we assemble and analyze extraordinary daily data - for rejection, production and downtime rates for all operators in a single plant during a 35 month period, more than 77,000...

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The effects of enforcement on illegal markets : evidence from migrant smuggling along the Southwestern border

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Consumer price adjustment under the microscope : Germany in a period of low inflation

Hoffmann, Johannes (contributor); … - 2006

We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price … data from the German Consumer Price Index which covers the years 1998 to 2003. We strong find evidence of time- and state …-dependent price adjustment. Most importantly, the differences in unconditionalʺ sectoral price flexibility are found to be linked to …

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Precious metal prices : a tale of four U.S. recessions

Agnese, Pablo; Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2023

This paper empirically examines the degree of persistence in four precious metal prices (i.e., gold, palladium, platinum, and silver) during the last four U.S. recessions. Unit root tests and fractional integration techniques suggest that gold still is the most prominent safe haven asset within...

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The stable long-run CAPM and the cross-section of expected returns

Kurz-Kim, Jeong-Ryeol - 2002

, neither the fat-tails of return data nor the price relationship between an asset of interest and the bench market portfolio …

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Evaluating density forecasts with an application to stock market returns

Raaij, Gabriela de; Raunig, Burkhard - 2002

Density forecasts have become quite important in economics and finance. For example, such forecasts play a central role in modern financial risk management techniques like Value at Risk. This paper suggests a regression based density forecast evaluation framework as a simple alternative to other...

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Central bank intervention and exchange rate expectations : evidence from the daily DM/US-Dollar exchange rate

Reitz, Stefan - 2002

In this paper we propose a generalisation of the noise trader transmission mechanism to examine the impact of central bank intervention on exchange rates. Within a heterogeneous expectations exchange rate model intervention operations are supposed to provide support to either chartist or...

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Testing mean-variance efficiency in CAPM with possibly non-gaussian errors : an exact simulation-based approach

Beaulieu, Marie-Claude; Dufour, Jean-Marie; Khalaf, Lynda - 2003

In this paper we propose exact likelihood-based mean-variance efficiency tests of the market portfolio in the context of Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), allowing for a wide class of error distributions which include normality as a special case. These tests are developed in the framework of...

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