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The Allocation of Economic Capital in Opaque Financial Conglomerates
Mierzejewski, Fernando - 2009
The capital structure of firms that face restrictions on liquidity (i.e. that cannot hedge continuously) is affected by the agency costs and moral-hazard implicit in the contracts they establish with stockholders and customers. It is demonstrated in this paper that then an optimal level of...
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A global perspective on the changing perceptions of the role of the external auditor and the significance of audit developments
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Through a consideration of factors which have resulted in a more reduced role for the external auditor in certain jurisdictions – when compared to others, this paper will consider, as well as highlight why an enhanced awareness of the role of the external auditor in such jurisdictions will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647355
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Impact of Economic Crisis on Innovation Behaviour of Industrial Firms In Russia
Kuznetsov, Boris - 2013
The paper focuses on empirical analysis of major factors that determine innovation activities of Russian manufacturing firms during the crisis. We presume that the crisis has ambiguous effects on firms' behaviour, on one hand limiting their financial capabilities to invest into new products...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082604
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Geld
Freeman, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This is a prepublication version of the German language version of the entry on ‘Money’ (‘Geld’) in the ‘Historisch Kritisch Wörterbuch des Marxismus’, a comprehensive dictionary of Marxist terminology being produced as an accompaniment to the Marx-Engels-Gesamt-Arbeite (Marx-Engels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619742
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Central bank’s role and involvement in bank regulation: Lender of last resort arrangements and the Special Resolution Regime (SRR)
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper considers developments which have necessitated greater involvement and a greater role for the central bank … legislation such as the Banking Act of 2009 which has not only introduced greater statutory powers for the central bank, but also … the Special Resolution Regime. As well as a consideration of arguments which are in favour of the central bank’s role as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323454
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Is hazard or probit more accurate in predicting financial distress? Evidence from U.S. bank failures
Cole, Rebel A.; Wu, Qiongbing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
one-period probit model used by Cole and Gunther (1998). Using data on U.S. bank failures from 1985 – 1992, we find that …, from an econometric perspective, the hazard model is more accurate than the probit model in predicting bank failures, but … data from the 1980s performs surprisingly well in forecasting bank failures during 2009 – 2010. …
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Déjà vu all over again: The causes of U.S. commercial bank failures this time around
Cole, Rebel A.; White, Lawrence J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this study, we analyze why U.S. commercial banks failed during the recent financial crisis. We find that proxies for commercial real estate investments, as well as traditional proxies for the CAMELS components, do an excellent job in explaining the failures of banks that were closed during...
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Microeconomic determinants of losses in financial institutions during the crisis
Forte, Antonio; Cepparulo, Alessandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this study we try to explain the inclusion of banks in the WDCI list proposed by Bloomberg. This list collects a group of more than 100 banking institutions which, during the crisis, suffered losses. We explain the probability of being part of the list (to suffer severe or highly severe...
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Causality of Residential Properties Price Movements in Malaysia
Aziz, Abdul; Faizal, Ahmad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia), Department of Statistics Malaysia and National Property Information Centre … these research addresses the issue specifically to Malaysia. This paper serves the purpose to fill in the gap whereby … (NAPIC) of the Valuation and Property Services Department of Malaysia. The time series techniques namely cointegration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258611
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Political Economy of The Budgetary Process in Malaysia
Hassan, Gulam; Aslam, Mohamed; Tan, Yee Shin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
the budget policy. In the case of Malaysia, as observed, the budget policy is associated with the long or medium term …. This paper has found that in the case of Malaysia the Member of Parliaments do influence the outlining of the annual budget. …
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