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Priorities and Pathways in Services Reform — Part I :Quantitative Studies
Dee, Philippa (contributor) - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
This book presents a state-of-the-art evaluation of the benefits and costs of behind-the-border services reform. It introduces new, second-generation methods for quantifying regulatory barriers and applies those methods to a wide range of services sectors ¡ª financial, infrastructure and...
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THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION:Business, Organization and Strategy
Jozsa, Frank P - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is widely recognized as an entertaining and innovative league whose teams play regular season and postseason games in packed arenas at home and away sites in the United States and Canada. This book discusses the development, growth, and success of the...
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Investment and inequality in Africa: which financial channels are good for the poor?
Simplice A., Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
provide new insights into the two contrasting theories in the finance-inequality nexus. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372548
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Finance and inequality: exploring pro-poor investment channels in Africa
Simplice A., Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to … how finance affects pro-poor investment channels. Findings reveal, but for the case of foreign investment, financial …
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On the substitution of institutions and finance in investment
Asongu, Simplice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The Ali (2013, EB) findings on the nexuses among institutions, finance and investment could have an important influence … finance and institutions because they are less realistic to developing countries to which the resulting policy implications … substitution of institutions and finance in investment. Results under many baseline and augmented scenarios are not consistent with …
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A Short-run Schumpeterian Trip to Embryonic African Monetary Zones
Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
With the spectre of the Euro crisis looming substantially large and scaring potential monetary unions, this study is a short-run trip to embryonic African monetary zones to assess the Schumpeterian thesis for positive spillovers of financial services on growth. Causality analysis is performed...
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Uncertainty of Multiple Period Risk Measures
Lönnbark, Carl - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009
In general, the properties of the conditional distribution of multiple period returns do not follow easily from the one-period data generating process. This renders computation of Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall for multiple period returns a non-trivial task. In this paper we consider some...
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A Corrected Value-at-Risk Predictor
Lönnbark, Carl - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2008
In this note it is argued that the estimation error in Value-at-Risk predictors gives rise to underestimation of portfolio risk. We propose a simple correction and find in an empirical illustration that it is economically relevant.
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On the role of the estimation error in prediction of expected shortfall
Lönnbark, Carl - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2012
In the estimation of risk measures such as Value at Risk and Expected shortfall relatively short estimation windows are typically used rendering the estimation error a possibly non-negligible component. In this paper we build upon previous results for the Value at Risk and discuss how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010564003
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Market Microstructure in Practice
Lehalle, Charles-Albert (contributor);  … - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <br> <b>Readership:</b> Students, academics, researchers, finance professionals, regulators and policy …
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