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We document and assess the role of small financial centers in the international financial system using a newly-assembled dataset. We present estimates of the foreign asset and liability positions for a number of the most important small financial centers, and place these into context by...
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This Paper looks at the determinants of country- and industry-specific factors in international portfolio returns using a sample of 36 countries and 39 industries over the last three decades. Country factors have remained relatively stable over the sample period while industry factors have...
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Over the last three decades there has been a dramatic increase in the size of the financial sector and in the compensation of financial executives. This increase has been associated with greater risk-taking and the use of more complex financial instruments. Parallel to this trend, the...
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consistent with foreign exchange dealers bidding for information from successful traders. If true, this provides little incentive …
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We use a comprehensive dataset of Funds-of-Hedge-Funds (FoFs) to investigate performance, risk and capital formation in … superior performance over time. In keeping with this implication, we provide evidence that even successful hedge funds have … experienced a recent, dramatic decline in risk-adjusted performance. …
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Performance indicators are increasingly used to regulate quality in health care and other areas of the public sector …
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We analyse the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and … ownership improves economic performance, but domestic private ownership does not, relative to state-owned firms. Foreign firms … increasing profit. Ownership concentration is associated with superior performance, thus providing support to the agency theory …
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against our data. We find that team size affects the impact of the incentive scheme upon performance. Moreover, while the …
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In this paper firm level data are used to test whether competition affects productivity performance in three transition … pressure has a positive impact on firm performance in Hungary and Slovenia, but not in Romania, while in Romenia short …-run competitive pressure has a positive impact on performance. The paper also finds evidence that ownership matters. Traditional firms …
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-advertising families. At the family level, flows have a convex relation with advertising expenditures, similar to that for performance … redemptions rather than increasing purchases of fund shares. We further find that advertising can affect the fund’s flow-performance …
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