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individual companies, focusing on the implications for both researchers and investment practitioners. I develop inflation … companies. I find that inflation-based investment strategies conditioned on information available to investors as of the initial … investment and rebalancing dates result in significant risk-adjusted returns. I also investigate the sources of abnormal returns …
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This paper reports the findings of Granger causality tests on the relationship between foreign direct investment … local financial market development is important in catalyzing the flow of foreign direct investment. findings results are …
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(competitive) obstacles to innovation; and strengthening the knowledge base through investment in education, research and …
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It is readily assumed that the average level of living in Indonesia deteriorated during the hectic period 1940-1950. Much of the evidence on economic change during this period is anecdotal. It is difficult to distil a general impression from it. Per capita food consumption is an important...
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Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between information technology and the capital markets. The central analytical and policy question addressed here is what kind of financial system or capital market arrangements are most conducive to fostering information technology and its use...
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Many questions have been raised as to whether financial accounting has become more conservative. The value relevance and qualitative characteristics of accounting information have become topics of particular relevance given the role they have assumed in influencing the value judgment of...
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What factors and developments have fuelled the „cartelisation“ of capital markets? - to the extent of the rigging of EURIBOR and LIBOR rates? In what ways can EURIBOR and LIBOR rate rigging practices be addressed? How and why have offshore markets expanded to the degree and extent to which...
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The need for effective supervision of capital markets is becoming all the more evident in the aftermath of the recent LIBOR and rate rigging scandals. Financial regulators or indeed bank regulators cannot perform such a function effectively without the involvement of auditors in the supervisory...
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Many questions have been raised as to whether financial accounting has become more conservative. The value relevance and qualitative characteristics of accounting information have become topics of particular relevance given the role they have assumed in influencing the value judgment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260479
This paper presents the Marxist theory of the financial system and the capital markets. First, it surveys the orthodox literature on the relationship between finance and the economy. Then, the function of the capital markets is analysed. Finally the differences between the orthodox and the...
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