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The impact of downside risk on risk-adjusted performance of mutual funds in the Euronext markets

Plantinga, Auke; Sortino, Franks; Meer, Robert van der - EconWPA - 2004

Many performance measures, such as the classic Sharpe ratio have difficulty in evaluating the performance of mutual funds with skewed return distributions. Common causes for skewness are the use of options in the portfolio or superior market timing skills of the portfolio manager. In this...

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Data Envelopment Analysis in Environmental Valuation: Environmental Performance, Eco-efficiency and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Kuosmanen, Timo; Kortelainen, Mika - EconWPA - 2004

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a linear programming based method for evaluating performance of comparable production units such as firms. Although the method is already extensively applied in many areas of economics, its use in environmental economics and related fields remains limited. The...

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An Index of Donor Performance

Roodman, David - EconWPA - 2004

The Commitment to Development Index of the Center for Global Development rates 21 rich countries on the “development-friendliness” of their policies. It is revised and updated annually. In the 2004 edition, the component on foreign assistance combines quantitative and qualitative measures of...

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Environmental Shareholder Value Matrix. Konzeption, Anwendung und Berechnung

Figge, Frank; Hahn, Tobias - EconWPA - 2004

Der Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltmanagement und Shareholder Value ist in den letzten Jahren Thema einer Vielzahl von … Publikationen gewesen. Dass gutes Umweltmanagement grundsätzlich auch Shareholder Value schaffen kann, ist heute weitgehend …. Hierdurch wird deutlich, ob und wie das Umweltmanagement Shareholder Value schafft. Die Studie zeigt außerdem, wie der Beitrag …

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Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement. Keine Nachhaltigkeit ohne ökonomischen Erfolg. Kein ökonomischer Erfolg ohne Nachhaltigkeit

Figge, Frank - EconWPA - 2004

Die Studie „Wertschaffendes Umweltmanagement“ betrachtet den Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltaspekten und Unternehmenswert … Environmental Shareholder Value auf und zeigt, wie betriebliches Umweltmanagement positiv auf die Werttreiber des Shareholder Value … betriebliche Umweltmanagement sicherstellen muss, dass Unternehmen auf zukünftige „ökologische“ Herausforderungen reagieren können …

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Implementation of ecologically sustainable development by Commonwealth departments and agencies

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

On 24 August 1998 the Treasurer referred the implementation of Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) by Commonwealth departments and agencies to the Commission for inquiry and report within nine months of receipt of the reference.

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Environmental management: analytical approximate solutions to the problem of detecting optimal random audit schemes

Ferretti, Paola - EconWPA - 2004

In the contest of environmental management, the problem of minimizing the expected cost due to random checking processes and a possible failure is here addressed. Non-homogeneous Poisson checking processes with continuous non-decreasing intensity are considered, leading to the explicit detection...

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The Role of Auctions in Allocating Public Resources

Chan, Chris; Laplagne, Patrick; Appels, David - EconWPA - 2003

This paper provides an economic framework within which to consider the effectiveness and limitations of auction markets. The paper looks at the use of auctions as a policy instrument and the effects of auction design on consumer interests, the efficient allocation of resources, and industry...

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Birth Spacing and Child Survival: Comparative Evidence from India and Pakistan

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the two-way relationship between birth interval and child survival and compares the behaviour of households in the Indian and Pakistani provinces of Punjab. Birth interval and child survival are modelled here as correlated hazard processes, allowing for mother- specific...

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After the "License Raj": Economic Liberalization and Aggregate Private Investment in India

Emran, M. Shahe; Alam, M. Imam; Shilpi, Forhad - EconWPA - 2003

theoretically consistent manner, this paper presents evidence on the effects of economic liberalization of 1991 in India. Two robust …

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