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Coyuntura económica y variación en la valoración financiera de una marca
Pérez Mantecón, María; Barajas, Angel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
It is increasingly common to use concepts such as intangible assets or intellectual capital. It has been frequent buying and selling companies for prices much higher value than book value. In this context, it seems relevant to study how to determine the brand financial value (global...
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Investment and inequality in Africa: which financial channels are good for the poor?
Simplice A., Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
provide new insights into the two contrasting theories in the finance-inequality nexus. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372548
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Finance and inequality: exploring pro-poor investment channels in Africa
Simplice A., Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Hitherto very few studies on the inequality-finance(investment) nexus have focused on the African continent owing to … how finance affects pro-poor investment channels. Findings reveal, but for the case of foreign investment, financial …
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Mutual Funds and Segregated Funds: A Comparison
Palombizio, Ennio A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Mutual Funds are the most common form of investment for the average household. They offer a fair amount of return for a limited amount of risk. Segregated Funds, which are, simply put, mutual funds with additional features, have grown in popularity as of late. It is something of great interest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621847
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Cooperative comebacks: resilience in the face of the Hurricane Katrina Catastrophe (New Orleans and Southern Mississippi, May 2005–May 2006)
Klinedinst, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Millions of lives were dramatically changed by Hurricane Katrina, the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Numerous businesses were wiped out. People lost their homes, their livelihoods, their lives. Nearly two years after Katrina, some sectors of the aff ected region have proved to be more...
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Introduction to Recent Developments in Alternative Finance: Empirical Assessments and Economic Implications
Barnett, William A.; Jawadi, Fredj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper is the introduction to the forthcoming book, Recent Developments in Alternative Finance: Empirical … Assessments and Economic Implications, Proceedings of Second International Symposium in Computational Economics and Finance. The … finance. …
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On the substitution of institutions and finance in investment
Asongu, Simplice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The Ali (2013, EB) findings on the nexuses among institutions, finance and investment could have an important influence … finance and institutions because they are less realistic to developing countries to which the resulting policy implications … substitution of institutions and finance in investment. Results under many baseline and augmented scenarios are not consistent with …
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A Short-run Schumpeterian Trip to Embryonic African Monetary Zones
Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
With the spectre of the Euro crisis looming substantially large and scaring potential monetary unions, this study is a short-run trip to embryonic African monetary zones to assess the Schumpeterian thesis for positive spillovers of financial services on growth. Causality analysis is performed...
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Uncertainty of Multiple Period Risk Measures
Lönnbark, Carl - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009
In general, the properties of the conditional distribution of multiple period returns do not follow easily from the one-period data generating process. This renders computation of Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall for multiple period returns a non-trivial task. In this paper we consider some...
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