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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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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
in the context of each of a set of emerging Asian stock markets. After properly accounting for unobserved firm …
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Comparison of the new "econophysics" approach to dealing with problems of financial to traditional econometric methods
Koh, Jason S. H. - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2008
, ARCH (1), GARCH (1, 1) and its extensions as compared to econophysics models such as Power Law model, Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG … periods and sub-periods of markets. The results show the robustness of Power Law analysis, with the Power Law exponent (0.4 to … return. However, the procedure for testing empirical data against a hypothesised power-law distribution using a simple rank …
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Financial soundness and development : a multi-country analysis using panel data
Akhter, Md. Selim - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2008
A large body of the literature argues that the soundness of financial system is largely determined by the economic and institutional environment in which the financial system works. Drawing on this theoretical underpinning, research in this thesis models financial soundness indicators (FSIs)...
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An exploratory study of the effect of market orientation on perceived ownership, location and internalization advantages and level of foreign direct investments by small and medium...
Frimpong, Anokye - University of Western Sydney; College of Law and Business; … - 2005
Organizational learning and innovation capabilities are widely regarded as important sources of competitive advantage as they enhance a firm?s capacity to create, maintain, expand and renew its bases of strategic resources, and, as a result, increase its chances of success in the marketplace....
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Qualität der Rechnungslegung : eine qualitativ-quantitative Analyse der Rechnungslegung nach HGB
Haddad, Narbeh - 2016
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Die Abschreckungswirkung von Enforcementmechanismen im Rahmen der Rechnungslegung : eine experimentelle Analyse
Schleicher, Miriam - 2017
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