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Non-parametric statistic for testing cumulative abnormal stock returns
Pynnönen, Seppo - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15 (2022) 4, pp. 1-13
Due to the non-normality of stock returns, nonparametric rank tests are gaining accceptance relative to parametric tests in financial economics event studies. In rank tests, financial assets' multiple day cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) are replaced by cumulated ranks. This paper proposes...
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Mapping finance sources for nature-based solutions in Africa
Pettinotti, Laetitia; Quevedo, Adriana - 2023
, countries seeking to identify finance for nature-based solutions must navigate complex fragmented terms and language, as well as … a wide array of public and private finance actors. Such fragmentation has practical implications. African countries face …. Adding to the complexity, finance for nature-based solutions often combines public and private financing. So far, blended …
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Selected contraints to development of entrepreneurship in Poland
Czemiel-Grzybowska, Wioletta - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 10 (2014) 2, pp. 21-27
Small enterprises are a key source of employment, economic growth, innovation and productivity in advanced as well as emerging economies and as such they are a crucial sector of an economy. Access to financing plays an important role for the small enterprise sector in any economy. Based on...
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Statistical arbitrage with vine copulas
Stübinger, Johannes; Mangold, Benedikt; Krauss, Christopher - 2016
We develop a multivariate statistical arbitrage strategy based on vine copulas - a highly flexible instrument for linear and nonlinear multivariate dependence modeling. In an empirical application on the S&P 500, we find statistically and economically significant returns of 9.25 percent p.a. and...
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Financial market and growth: Evidence from postreforms India
Sinha, Prity; Viswanathan, Brinda; Narayanan, Badri G. - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-9
A significant boom occurred in the Indian financial market and growth in the post-liberalization era. This motivates us to analyze the impact of stock market and credit market (two components of financial market) for the growth of financial market. This paper attempts to show the linkage between...
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Use of Bloomberg Professional in support of finance and economics teaching
Sharma, Abhijit - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 3 (2015) 1, pp. 1-13
experience a simulated environment which allows them to gain an appreciation of "real life" decision-making within the finance …
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What determines financial literacy in Japan?
Kadoya, Yoshihiko; Khan, Mostafa Saidur Rahim - 2016
This study aims to determine the factors that affect financial literacy in Japan using data from Osaka University's Preference Parameter Study in Japan. We examined fourteen variables covering respondents' demographic, socio-economic, and psychological backgrounds drawn from social learning,...
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Post-Keynesian macroeconomics since the mid-1990s: Main developments
Hein, Eckhard - 2016
integrated analysis of money, finance and macroeconomics and its application to changing institutional and historical …
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Too Few Women in Top Posts in the Big Banks and Insurance Companies
Holst, Elke; Stahn, Anne-Katrin - In: Weekly Report 3 (2007) 7, pp. 39-41
The share of women on the supervisory boards (Aufsichts- und Verwaltungsräte) of the big banks, savings banks and insurance companies in Germany is low. In the banking sector it is 15% and in insurance 11%. That women are to be found on most supervisory or administrative boards is mainly...
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Monetary transmission in Germany: new perspectives on financial constraints and investment spending
Von Kalckreuth, Ulf - 2001
In order to obtain a better understanding of the transmission channels for monetary policy, this paper assesses the importance of the interest rate and credit channels on business fixed investment in Germany. Our unbalanced panel of financial statements contains 44,345 firm/year observations for...
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