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The demand for cash balances of financial intermediaries that establish contractual liabilities with credit-sensitive customers is characterized. As stated by Merton, the success of the business activities of such firms crucially depends on their credit quality, and hence, they are obliged to...
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This paper examines the applicability of CAPM in explaining the risk-return relation in the Malaysian stock market for … standard CAPM model with constant beta (Model I), the standard CAPM model with time-varying beta (Model II), the CAPM model … conditional on segregating positive and negative market risk premiums with constant beta (Model III), as well as the CAPM model …
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prices, the outcome from investment decisions, with all the information available to economic agents in their rational …
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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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This paper shows that (i) project valuation via disequilibrium NPV+CAPM contradicts valuation via arbitrage pricing …, (ii) standard CAPM-minded decision makers may fail to profit from arbitrage opportunities, (iii) standard CAPM …-based valuation violates value additivity. As a consequence, the standard use of CAPM for project valuation and decision making should …
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Exploiting a precise reproduction of a stock exchange, the robustness of the Continuous Double Auction (CDA) mechanism, evaluated by means of the waiting time distributions, has been proved versus 36 different set ups made by varying both the operators' behaviour and the market micro structure....
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This paper analyzes the impact of changes in the securities transaction tax (STT) rate on the local A-shares market in China. We find that, on average, a 22-base-point- increase in the STT rate is associated with about a 28% drop in trading volume, while a 17-base-point- reduction in the STT...
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This paper explores the question of whether the institution of the stock market is likely to be helpful to developing countries in promoting their real economy and ensuring fast industrial growth. The case for and against the stock market inevitably involves a discussion of the important related...
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The paper examines stock market behaviour on days preceding and succeeding the announcement of a change in the monetary policy stance. Market's plausible reactions are tested using nonparametric statistics. The tests reveals that there is no systematic pattern in its reaction, neither towards...
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