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Green finance and sustainability : environmentally-aware business models and technologies

Luo, Zongwei (contributor) - 2011

"This book is devoted to examining a range of issues concerning green finance and sustainability covering sections on … finance and the carbon market, green manufacturing, logistics and SCM, and regional low carbon development"--Provided by …

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Advanced technologies for microfinance : solutions and challenges

Ashta, Arvind (contributor) - 2011

"This book offers research on the microfinance movement that is providing poor people around the world an opportunity to take responsibility for their lives by providing them complementary elements such as financial capital and guidance"--Provided by publisher.

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Global strategies in banking and finance

Dinçer, Hasan (ed.); Hacıoğlu, Ümit (ed.) - 2014

perspectives applicable to a variety of fields in banking and finance"--Provided by publisher. … Yakubu -- A competitive approach to financial issues: modern finance theory / Mustafa Okur, A. Osman Gurbuz -- A comparative … portfolio theories / Dilaysu Cinar -- Behavioral finance in theory and practice / Mustafa Okur, A. Osman Gurbuz -- Racial …

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Influences on financial decision making among the rural poor in Bangladesh

Jackson, Laurel R. - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2010

This thesis gives a voice to the chronically poor people of rural Bangladesh, enabling them to tell their own stories about the nature of their financial decision making which is taking place within the marketing systems that are operating in all poor villages in the region. Financial decision...

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Understanding small- and medium-sized firms' financial skill needs

Lee, Geoffrey; McGuiggan, Robyn L. - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2008

Small- and medium-sized businesses make a significant contribution to the economies of Western countries. Government, industry, and educators commonly train business managers to improve their skills and knowledge in order to improve the performance of these firms. Owner-manager financial skill...

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Spotlight on financial planning education in Australian universities

Cowen, Janet E.; Blair, W. T.; Taylor, Sharon; … - University of Western Sydney; Macquarie University; … - 2004

Financial planning in its broadest terms is now in the spotlight as it draws interest from a wide range of groups including consumers, regulators, government, the financial services industry, accountants and most importantly educators. This paper presents a descriptive analysis which provides a...

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Modelling the efficiency of health care foodservice operations : a stochastic frontier approach

Assaf, Abdallah G. - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2007

The important role of efficiency in the health care foodservice sector has been widely addressed in the literature. Different methods for assessing performance have been proposed. In general, most measures were calculated as simple ratios such as food and labour cost per meal or limited...

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Firm performance and default risk for publicly listed companies in emerging markets : a case study of Jordan

Zeitun, Rami M. A. - University of Western Sydney; College of Law and Business; … - 2006

This thesis examines the determinants of corporate performance and likelihood of default of Jordanian publicly listed companies. Despite the large body of work that has investigated the determinants of corporate performance and default, no comprehensive study has emerged in an emerging market....

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On the information content of idiosyncratic equity return variation

Rahman, Md. Arifur - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2007

Research in this thesis deals with some unexplored, or only partially explored, issues relating to the information content of volatility of the idiosyncratic component of asset returns at the firm and industry-level, both in the context of developed and emerging stock markets. Specific issues we...

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A stochastic approach to modelling and forecasting dependent time-series

Ellis, Craig; Wilson, Patrick J.; Financial Management … - University of Western Sydney; University of Technology, …; … - 2004

An important assumption underlying traditional theories of financial time-series behaviour is that consecutive changes in the price of an asset (ie. asset returns) are independent of each other. For analysts seeking to predict the future value of an asset, this implies that the best step-ahead...

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