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The fundamental equation in tourism finance

McAleer, Michael - 2015

The purpose of the paper is to present the fundamental equation in tourism finance that connects tourism research to empirical finance and financial econometrics. The energy industry, which includes, oil, gas and bio-energy fuels, together with the tourism industry, are two of the most important...

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Choosing expected shortfall over VaR in Basel III using stochastic dominance

Chang, Chia-Lin; Jiménez-Martín, Juan-Ángel; … - 2015

Bank risk managers follow the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) recommendations that recently proposed shifting the quantitative risk metrics system from Value-at-Risk (VaR) to Expected Shortfall (ES). The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (2013, p. 3) noted that: "a number of...

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A stochastic dominance approach to the Basel III dilemma : expected shortfall or VaR?

Chang, Chia-Lin; Jiménez-Martín, Juan-Ángel; … - 2015

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) (2013) recently proposed shifting the quantitative risk metrics system from Value-at-Risk (VaR) to Expected Shortfall (ES). The BCBS (2013) noted that - a number of weaknesses have been identified with using VaR for determining regulatory capital...

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Quantile forecasting for credit risk management using possibly mis-specified hidden Markov models

Banachewicz, Konrad; Lucas, André - 2007

Recent models for credit risk management make use of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). The HMMs are used to forecast quantiles of corporate default rates. Little research has been done on the quality of such forecasts if the underlying HMM is potentially mis-specified. In this paper, we focus on...

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A real options perspective on R&D portfolio diversification

Bekkum, Sjoerd van; Pennings, Enrico; Smit, Han T. J. - 2008

This paper shows that the presence of conditional staging in R&D (Research & Development) has a critical impact on portfolio risk, and changes diversification arguments when a portfolio is constructed. When R&D projects exhibit option-like characteristics, correlation between projects plays a...

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Rhineland exit?

Bovenberg, Ary Lans; Teulings, Coen N. - 2007

We argue in favour of the shareholder model of the firm for three main reasons. First, serving multiple stakeholders leads to ill-defined property rights. What sounds like a fair compromise between stakeholders can easily evolve in a permanent struggle between the stakeholders about the ultimate...

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The political economy of financial systems

Haber, Stephen H.; Perotti, Enrico C. - 2008

This survey reviews the literature on the political economy of financial structure, broadly defined to include the size of capital markets and banking systems as well as the distribution of access to external finance across firms.The theoretical literature on the institutional basis for...

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An analysis of the effects of the severance payment reform on credit to Italian SMEs

Calcagno, Riccardo; Kräussl, Roman; Monticone, Chiara - 2008

We study the effects of the reform of the system of severance payments (TFR) of Italian employees on the cost and the access to credit for small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). The most direct consequence of the reform is to reduce in the long run the amount of liquid assets available to...

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Has the Basel II accord encouraged risk management during the 2008 - 09 financial crisis?

McAleer, Michael; Jimenez-Martin, Juan-Angel; Pérez … - 2009

management strategies performed during the 2008-09 financial crisis, evaluate how the financial crisis affected risk management … financial crisis. These issues are illustrated using Standard and Poor’s 500 Index, with an emphasis on how risk management … practices were monitored and encouraged by the Basel II Accord regulations during the financial crisis. …

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Blockholder dispersion and firm value

Konijn, Sander J. J.; Kräussl, Roman; Lucas, André - 2009

This paper analyzes the impact of blockownership dispersion on firm value. Blockholdings by multiple blockholders is a widespread phenomenon in the U.S. market. It is not clear, however, whether dispersion among blockholder is preferable to having a more concentrated ownership structure. To test...

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