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INDIAN VENTURE CAPITALISTS (VCs) INVESTMENT EVALUATION CRITERIA

Mishra, Asim - EconWPA - 2005

The Venture capital (VC) industry in India is of recent origin. However, the average investment value of each deal in India have grown from $3.85 million in 2000 to $7.89 million in 2001.These developments together with the recent steps taken by government to promote venture capitalism in India...

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Measuring Loss Potential of Hedge Fund Strategies

Prado, Marcos Mailoc López de; Peijan, Achim - EconWPA - 2005

We measure the loss potential of Hedge Funds by combining three market risk measures: VaR, Draw-Down and Time Under … results clearly state that market risk may be substantially underestimated by those models which assume Normality or, even … considering Non-Normality, neglect to model time- dependence. Moreover, VaR is an incomplete measure of market risk whenever the …

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Analysis of UAE Bank Stocks

Rao, Ananth - EconWPA - 2003

Listing of stocks on the stock exchange offers business firms several advantages such as diversification, liquidity, establishing a value for the firm etc. The present paper analyses stocks of six commercial banks (viz., Dubai Commercial Bank, Emirates Bank International, National Bank of Dubai,...

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INVESTING IN THE FINANCIAL SECTOR OF EMERGING COUNTRIES: POTENTIAL RISK AND HOW TO MANAGE THEM

HERRERO, ALICIA GARCIA; HERRERO, SONSOLES GALLEGO; … - EconWPA - 2004

financial independence of subsidiaries may be considered an important tool of risk control, the possibilities to mitigate risks …

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Why VAR Fails: Long Memory and Extreme Events in Financial Markets

Los, Cornelis A. - EconWPA - 2004

The Value-at-Risk (VAR) measure is based on only the second moment of a rates of return distribution. It is an … insufficient risk performance measure, since it ignores both the higher moments of the pricing distributions, like skewness and …

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How Widespread is Late Trading in Mutual Funds?

Zitzewitz, Eric - EconWPA - 2005

This paper uses daily fund flow data to examine the extent of late trading in the U.S. mutual fund industry. Trading decisions that are required by law to have been made before 4 PM Eastern Time are correlated with market movements from 4 to 9 PM that evening. The cross- sectional variation in...

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Financial Development, Labor and Market Regulations and Growth

FONSECA, Raquel; GONZALEZ, Natalia UTRERO- - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates the importance that market regulation and financial imperfections have on …rm growth. We analyse institutions affecting labor market as Employment Protection Laws (EP) and Product Market Regulation (PM). We show that together with the beneficial effects of …nancial...

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Financiële stabiliteit: de rol van DNB

Haas, Ralph de; Vor, Marc de - EconWPA - 2002

DNB bewaakt de stabiliteit van ons financiële stelsel via het monetaire beleid, het toezicht en de zorg voor het betalingsverkeer. Deze gezamenlijke taakuitoefening biedt belangrijke voordelen.

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The Basel Process and Financial Stability

Bieri, David S. - EconWPA - 2004

The Basel Process is a key element of the global financial system and as such plays an important role in co-ordinating the multilateral efforts of various committees, uniquely geared towards fostering and maintaining financial stability.

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Does Financial Structure Matter?

Arestis, Philip; Luintel, Ambika D.; Luintel, Kul B. - EconWPA - 2004

We address the issue of whether financial structure influences economic growth. Three competing views of financial structure exist in the literature: the bank-based, the market-based and the financial services view. Recent empirical studies examine their relevance by utilizing panel and...

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