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Finance versus democracy? Theorizing finance in society

Walby, Sylvia - In: Work, Employment & Society 27 (2013) 3, pp. 489-507

What should be the place of finance in social theory? What is the relationship between finance and democracy? The … article identifies four major frameworks that analyse finance: orthodox, drawing on Adam Smith; political economy, drawing on … along five dimensions: the conceptualization of finance; the relations between finance and the economy; the relations …

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Corporate governance in Islamic perspective

Choudhury, Masudul Alam; Alam, Mohammad Nurul - In: International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern … 6 (2013) July, pp. 180-199

epistemological foundations. Findings – The hetrodox theory of Islamic finance in regards to the theme of corporate governance is …

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Weather risk management by Saskatchewan agriculture producers

Khan, Saqib; Rennie, Morina; Charlebois, Sylvain - In: Agricultural Finance Review 73 (2013) April, pp. 161-178

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to study the weather risk management practices of agriculture producers. In particular, the authors look at the extent to which farmers use weather derivatives to complement insurance. Unlike insurance, weather derivatives mitigate risk associated with...

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Why don't we just ask them – do finance practitioners read academic research?

Lundsten, Lorman; Daugherty, Mary; Shovein, James; … - In: Humanomics: The International Journal of Systems and Ethics 29 (2013) August, pp. 232-235

Purpose – The article attempts to determine whether academic research in the area of finance has a direct link to the … practitioners in the field. Design/methodology/approach – This paper used a survey of over 50 finance practitioners to ask their … opinion on the relevance of academic finance journals to their respective jobs. Findings – The results suggest that most …

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Where to? – The EU unemployment post crisis

Mihai-Yiannaki, Simona - In: Global Business and Economics Review 13 (2011) 3/4, pp. 240-256

perspectives: the new classical macroeconomics theory related to unemployment, a finance approach of the relationship with exchange …

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Financial portfolio selection using the multifactor capital asset pricing model and imported options data

Dicle, Mehmet F. - In: Stata Journal 13 (2013) 3, pp. 603-617

Diversification and portfolio selection are integral parts of a finance curriculum. In this article, a multifactor … capital asset pricing model is fit for components of the Dow Jones Composite Index using data from Yahoo! Finance. Along with …, fetchyahoooptions, is provided to download and parse equity options data from Yahoo! Finance webpages and, optionally, to calculate the …

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Dealing with Endogeneity in Regression Models with Dynamic Coefficients

Chang-Jin, Kim - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Econometrics 3 (2010) 3, pp. 165-266

The purpose of this monograph is to present a unified econometric framework for dealing with the issues of endogeneity in Markovswitching models and time-varying parameter models, as developed by Kim (2004, 2006, 2009), Kim and Nelson (2006), Kim et al. (2008), and Kim and Kim (2009). While...

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Bayesian Multivariate Time Series Methods for Empirical Macroeconomics

Koop, Gary; Korobilis, Dimitris - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Econometrics 3 (2010) 4, pp. 267-358

Macroeconomic practitioners frequently work with multivariate time series models such as VARs, factor augmented VARs as well as time-varying parameter versions of these models (including variants with multivariate stochastic volatility). These models have a large number of parameters and, thus,...

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Internal Pricing

Baldenius, Tim - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Accounting 3 (2009) 4, pp. 223-313

This monograph focuses on the use of incomplete contracting models to study transfer pricing. Intrafirm pricing mechanisms affect division managers' incentives to trade intermediate products and to undertake relationship-specific investments so as to increase the gains from trade. Letting...

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Taxation of Multinational Corporations

Blouin, Jennifer - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Accounting 6 (2012) 1, pp. 1-64

Multinational taxation is an area of research that encompasses academics in accounting, finance and economics. In …

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