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Dividends aren't disappearing: evidence from the UK
ap Gwilym, Owain; Seaton, James; Thomas, Stephen - 2004
Despite a documented decline in the number of dividend payers in the UK it is found that aggregate real dividends paid by industrials actually increased between 1979 and 2000. This was attributed to the firms lost from the sample being generally small distributors of dividends whilst the growth...
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Behind DEA efficiency in financial institutions
Serrano Cinca, C.; Mar Molinero, C.; Chaparro Garcia, F. - 2006
DEA has been extensively used to measure the efficiency of financial institutions. Its advantages are clearly understood. But there are many unresolved problems. There are various views based on different modelling philosophies of what constitutes inputs and outputs in a financial institution....
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Unification of financial regulatory structures: the case of the Russian Federation
McKenzie, George; Wolfe, Simon - 2001
In this paper we develop the case for the creation of a single financial supervisory and regulatoryauthority for the Russian Federation. This case is based on three criteria:(a) it enables economies of scope to be exploited(b) it ensures regulatory parity(c) it satisfies prudential logicThe risk...
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Dividend cuts, firm profitability and financial characteristics
ap Gwilym, Owain; Seaton, James; Thomas, Stephen - 2004
accounting items because managers view these as a temporary fluctuation in profitability. Leverage is found to have some role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009458613
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Accounting and change in the financial services sector: the case of activity-based costing in a Portuguese bank
Vieira, Rui Jos? Oliveira - 2002
This thesis aims to trace the development of management accounting systems (MAS) in a Portuguese bank, where an … of accounting practices on change from three perspectives - changing structures, changing discourses and the effect of … increase of visibility and perceived importance of accounting in the banking sector, and how accounting is significant beyond …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009485339
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Selective disclosure: the case of the Korean securities market
Lee, Ju Hyun - 2010
Korea adopted Regulation Fair Disclosure (FD) in November 2002. Regulation FD, designed with a goal of levelling the playing field among market participants, has created considerable debate among practitioners and academics. This thesis examines the effect of Regulation FD on the Korean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009428761
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Capital structure and dividend policy: evidence from emerging markets
Manos, Ronny - 2001
This thesis aims to add empirical evidence to the corporate finance literature by looking at two main financing issues, namely firms’ payout policies and capital structure decisions, in the context of emerging markets. The thesis consists of seven chapters, including five main standalone...
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"Strategy sort of died around April last year for a lot of us": CIO perceptions on ICT value and strategy in the UK financial sector
Scott, Susan V.; Zachariadis, M. - 2003
The role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) is one of facilitating executive decisions regarding the innovations, provision and use of state-of-the-art Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The aim of this paper is to investigate CIO perceptions of strategy and ICT investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439479
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A dynamic contagion process and an application to credit risk
Dassios, Angelos; Zhao, Hongbiao - 2011
We introduce a new point process, the dynamic contagion process, by gener- alising the Hawkes process and the Cox process with shot noise intensity. Our process includes both self-excited and externally excited jumps, which could be used to model the dynamic contagion impact from endogenous and...
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Dollarization in Tanzania: empirical evidence and cross-country experience
Kessy, Pantaleo - 2011
The use of U.S dollar as unit of account, medium of exchange and store of value in Tanzania has raised concerns among policy makers and the general public. This paper attempts to shed some light on the key stylized facts of dollarization in Tanzania and the EAC region. We show that compared to...
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