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Abstract Although the concept of randomized assignment in order to control for extraneous confounding factors reaches back hundreds of years, the first empirical use appears to have been in an 1835 trial of homeopathic medicine. Throughout the 19 th century there was a growing awareness of the...
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Financial performance of equity mutual funds depends upon the aggregate performance of individual stocks held in the mutual fund portfolio. Rate of return and risk‐adjusted returns are widely used parameters of fund performance. These measures of financial performance, inter‐alia, depend...
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stems from the analysis of the merits of using projects bonds to finance infrastructure investment projects, the pricing of …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the merits of using projects bonds to finance infrastructure … investment projects and considers the pricing of such bonds and the level of risk premium demanded by the market. Design …
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providing clarity around the real estate exposure for a specific investment requirement, the UK DC pension fund market.  …
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Features excerpts from an interview with Peter Medgyessy, the Hungarian Finance Minister. Covers topics such as … Medgyessy’s assessment of the reasons for Hungary’s good performance in attacting foreign direct investment. Also considers a …
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’ attitudes, or beliefs, determine whether they will buy or keep risky assets in their investment portfolios; they may decide to … sell such assets, even though market shows an upward trend. Such results make a new contribution to behavioural finance …
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Reports that there are lessons which can be learned from the Western ethical “green” finance industry for Islamic … investors. States that these are that the criteria for investment selection are different, and the modes of permissible …. Goes on to consider criteria for haram and halal investment, as well as the implications of company capital gearing or …
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investment decisions. Design/methodology/approach – The research involved semi-structured, face-to-face interviews with 34 fund … theoretical explanations. Findings – Large investors make limited use of neoclassical finance theory. They believe that securities …
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and consistency, evidence seems to suggest that Value Line Investment Survey database is as good as other databases …
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Investigates the role of investment and finance in real estate education and researches the programs of the conferences … estate economics”. The paper comes to the conclusion that real estate investment and finance play an important role which is …
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