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performance is very frequently grounded on employment protection indicators. The most used is the OECD “employment protection …
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s as unemployment and lack of opportunity in the formal sector deterred candidates from in-migrating. The Nairobi labour … considerably. In the 1990s the combination of higher unemployment, lower female participation rate and reduced migration of males …
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Empirical evidence shows that fundamental models have produced disappointing results over the past 20 years while carry trade strategies have performed superbly. But the real picture is much more complex. In fact, the track records of both strategies have varied considerably. This article shows...
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This article investigates volatility spillovers in commodity markets by following the methodology pioneered in Diebold and Yilmaz (2012). By using a broad data set during 1995–2012, we address three key research questions: are there volatility spillovers within commodities? between standard...
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This paper examines jointly the empirical relevance of the mean-reversion and the PPP hypotheses in the exchange rate dynamics under the EMS. Given the non-stationarity and the non-linearities characterizing the foreign exchange rate dynamics, this question is studied using a MS-ECM model: it...
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performance, even with quite large teams. We examine whether this effect was due to increased effort from workers or strategic … task reallocation. We find that the provision of financial incentives did raise individual performance but that managers …
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Accompagnement destiné à améliorer la performance d'individus, le coaching est à la mode dans les entreprises, et …
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, and political risk affect the performance and risk-taking behavior of mutual funds. Overall, the results show strongly … that legal conditions, culture, and political risk have robust differential effects on performance and risk-taking behavior … conditions, higher corruption and political risk have higher performance. Likewise, in such conditions, both of Islamic and …
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focuses on developing theoretical and empirical analysis framework to explain the fixed and performance fees, the performance … and the investor have respectively an impact on the periodic performance fees (carried interest) during the bargaining … performance and the risk of funds. To achieve our objective, we create a unique database that has an international sample of …
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