The paper investigates technical efficiency determinants for sausage industry in Greece over the period of 1994–2007. A double bootstrap data envelopment analysis is applied in order to obtain robust estimates of efficiency scores and regression variable coefficients in the presence of...

This paper investigates stock price reactions to Japan's popular TV program "Project X," which was broadcast on NHK between 2000 and 2005. By using a standard event study methodology, we found that stock prices of these companies increased on average after the broadcast. In particular, the...

Recently, the yen carry trade has been focused on the international financial market. However, there are few empirical studies on the yen carry trade. This paper investigates the relationship between the yen carry trade and the related financial variables in the US and Japan by the structural...

The main aim of economy is achieving more benefit in a transaction and the best way is to get a method to foresee the future prices. In old commercial methods the experience and guestimation was the fundamental tools for predicting the price in coming days. Many different theories and methods...

We revisit the issue of comovements of emerging and developed stockmarkets, and provide a simultaneous treatment of data for the eighties and nineties. We show that while emerging markets experience greater instability in the long term than their developed counterparts, there is room for...

The main aim of economy is achieving more benefit in a transaction and the best way is to get a method to foresee the future prices. In old commercial methods the experience and guestimation was the fundamental tools for predicting the price in coming days. Many different theories and methods...

Data from 94 Alabama hospitals are examined to determine the relative profitability of sixteen outpatient Diagnosis Related Groups. Analysis of variance and Bonferroni multiple comparisons are made. Supplemental outpatient services are shown to be the most profitable outpatient service studied.

Recently, the global current account imbalance has received considerable attention in the international financial market. In this paper, we focus on the relationship between US and East Asia from the perspective of the trade balance and examine whether the appreciation of East Asian currencies...

This article aims at studying the influence of debt on small business investment in a European context, i.e. France. The empirical findings, robust to the endogeneity analysis, lead to several interesting results. In particular, credit institutions privilege corporate manager monitoring before...

This paper presents a multi-period investment strategy using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in the Brazilian stock market. Results show that the returns based on the DEA strategy were superior to the returns of a Brazilian stock index in most of the 22 quarters analyzed, presenting a...