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This paper addresses the following questions: Are the major European stock markets more integrated after the introduction of the Euro? How much of the change in the stock indices in different European countries can be attributed to innovations in other markets? How fast are events occurring in...
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This paper surveys research on Emulative Neural Network (ENN) models as economic forecasters. ENNs are statistical methods that seek to mimic neural processing. They serve as trainable analytical tools that quot;learnquot; autonomously. ENNs are ideal for finding non-linear relationships and...
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This paper analyzes the dynamic interrelationships among the exchange rates of twelve countries in the Asian-Pacific region using Vector Auto regression Models. The exchange rates of the following countries are analyzed: Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines,...
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Incredible profits from Initial Public Offerings have been highly emphasized. This paper refutes these profits as being standard and supports the market's return to normalcy by stratifying annual and cumulative returns for different industries: Biotechnology; Communications; Computer Related...
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Do certain regions inherently enjoy an advantage in venture capital investment decisions? And how do industry characteristics affect venture capital activity? These questions fall under the reemerging study of economic geography, which suggests the importance of industrial location to economic...
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The incredible profits of Initial Public Offerings have often been emphasized in the media as a popular investment for the public. This paper takes a few steps towards refuting such an assertion by investigating the performance of 2,895 venture capital backed IPOs between 1968 and September...
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This paper compares the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) 25 Index (TA25) to the Samp;P 500 Index with respect to the extent that the Technical Analysis method of moving average can beat the buy-and-hold policy. Previous research on the Samp;P 500 Index is inconclusive, while TA25 has never been...
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The recent political developments in the Middle East have prompted increased scrutiny of the economies of the nations lying in this region. Over the past few months, the financial markets of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have been affected by the speculations that existed before the war in...
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This paper estimates the degree of the exponential-function misvaluation, its variation with given product price level, and its expected growth rate. The paper examines whether other mathematical functions, such as linear, quadratic and cubic functions, conform to the discounting and compounding...
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We document the changes of corporate design of modern Specified Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) from 2003 to 2012. We assign the impact on changes of SPACs to each of the three groups of stakeholders: founders, investors and underwriters and test whether institutional characteristics of...
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