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competitiveness of the Australian black coal industry which are consistent with improving the overall performance of the Australian …
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Productivity at Australian container terminals has improved significantly in absolute terms since 1997 according to … this international benchmarking study. For the sample of ship calls and terminals studied, productivity improved also in … relative terms. The productivity improvement at Australian terminals was generally greater than at overseas terminals between …
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between high productivity growth industry sectors and low productivity growth industry sectors. …
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This paper is about quality decisions in a vertical structure where competitive producers sell to powerful retailers. Specifically, we focus the analysis on the role played by a tour operator on quality investments when distributing the capacity of a given tourist destination. We emphasize the...
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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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