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This paper argues that the tradtitional way of gauging a country's fiscal policy stance by looking at government budget deficit or cyclically adjusted budget deficits is misleading in the case of China, since a lot of what usually would be considered fiscal policy is conducted via investment by...
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This abstract will be reformatted upon submission. You don't need to format for line-breaks here!!!!! This paper tests the contributions of the size of state-owned enterprises as a determinant of China’s economic growth. The methodology is discussed in papers by Levine and Renelt (1992) and...
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Public sector occupies a prominent position in the Indian economy. The present government policy is to divest its holding in PSUs, without privatizing profit making PSUs. It has also decided to provide full autonomy to the board of directors of those enterprises. This provides an interesting...
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This is the first study evaluating publication performances of economists and economics departments in Turkey. Findings show wide gaps between the Top-Five economics departments and economists affiliated to these universities and the others. Publication patterns of Turkish economists are the...
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We measure the loss potential of Hedge Funds by combining three market risk measures: VaR, Draw-Down and Time Under-The-Water. Calculations are carried out considering three different frameworks regarding Hedge Fund returns: i) Normality and time-independence, ii) Non-normality and time-...
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hedge funds performance using various asset-pricing models, including an extension form of Carhart's (1997) model combined …, Equity non- Hedge and Sector funds. We analyse the performance of ehdge funds and the persistence in performance for … calculations for several individual hedge fund strategies. We showed there is a proof of persistence in performance in some cases …
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Hedge Fund Performance and Persistence in Bull and Bear Markets DANIEL P.J. CAPOCCI University of Liege - Economics … paper tests the performance of 2894 hedge funds in a time period that encompasses unambiguously bullish and bearish trends …-factor composite performance model that achieves very high significance levels. The analysis of performance indicates that most hedge …
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We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a population of firms in a model large … private ownership improve dynamic post-privatization performance. Concentrated foreign (but not domestic) ownership improves … some measures of performance relative to state ownership. Foreign investors engage in strategic restructuring by increasing …
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determinants of performance of cities. We construct a preliminary worldwide database for cities, containing variables and … indicators of globalization (at the country and city level), city governance, city performance (access and quality of … globalization (at both the country as well as at the city level) do matter for city-level performance in terms of access and quality …
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influences on export performance of Australian manufacturing firms may lie with a range of ‘firm-specific’ factors other than …
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