Written in honor of Emeritus Professor Georges Prat (University of Paris Nanterre, France), this book includes contributions from eminent authors on a range of topics that are of interest to researchers and graduates, as well as investors and portfolio managers. The topics discussed include the...

This study tests the weak form of the efficient capital markets theorem in five transition economies in Southeast Europe between 2005 and 2016. A panel pooled mean group estimator is used to examine the relationship between macroeconomic indicators and the performance of stock market indexes....

Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Global and Southeast European Environment -- Chapter Three: Profiling Individual Capital Markets In The Selected Southeast European Countries -- Chapter Four: Research Statistical Approach Framework And Empirical Testing Results -- Chapter Five: Summary...

Um die klassische Eventstudie zu erweitern, entwickelt Waldemar Wagner ein theoriegestütztes Verfahren. Hierfür verwendet der Autor die Methoden der Theorien Nichtlinearer Dynamischer Systeme, um neben den linearen Abhängigkeiten in ökonomischen Zeitreihen auch die Existenz und zeitliche...

Despite progress in the past decade, financial markets in Colombia remain relatively small and shallow. In particular the banking system suffers high intermediation costs, which limit constrains access to finance by households and firms. This paper explores some of the causes behind these...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Conceptual background: firms’ objectives, decision variables and economic efficiency -- Part I -- Chapter 3: Shephard’s input and output distance functions: cost and revenue efficiency decompositions -- Chapter 4: The generalized distance function (GDF):...

1. Overview of Neoclassical Production Economics- Editors -- 2. Duality in Production Diewert (agreed) -- 3. Multiproduct Technologies Fare--agreed -- 4. Elasticities of Substitution Russell--agreed -- 5. Conceptualization and Measurement of Technical Change and Productivity Growth Hulten or...