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This paper assesses financial sector development in Latin America, both in the banking system and in the capital markets. After a brief review of the explanatory factors and the definitions of financial development found in the literature, Latin American countries are classified in groups of...
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A problemática deste artigo centra-se nas diferenças de competitividade entre interior e litoral, tomando os territórios concelhios como espaço de análise. Não obstante as enormes diferenças conhecidas, supôs-se poder existir um potencial de competitividade nas cidades do interior do...
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The selection of ‘representative’ farms in farm level modelling where results are aggregated to the sector level is critically important if the effects of aggregation bias are to be reduced. The process of selecting representative farms normally involves the use of cluster analysis where 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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influences on export performance of Australian manufacturing firms may lie with a range of ‘firm-specific’ factors other than …
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