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Is Ethical Money Sensitive to Past Returns? The Case of Portfolio Constraints and Persistence of Islamic and Socially Responsible Funds

Abdelsalam, Omneya; Duygun, Meryem; Matallín-Sáez, … - Departament d'Economia, Universitat Jaume I - 2014

We analyse the performance persistence and survivorship bias of Islamic and Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) funds …-financial attributes influence performance and performance persistence. We propose a refined version of the procedures used in the … literature based on a cross-sectional test to control for significance of the recursive portfolios according to past performance …

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Patterns of Corporate Diversification in Canada: An Empirical Analysis

Peters, Alice; Beckstead, Desmond; Gellatly, Guy; … - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2000

Using a comprehensive micro-database of Canadian firms in conjunction with industry-level data on commodity flows, we develop a profile of corporate diversification within the Canadian economy. Our analysis has two major objectives. First, we decompose corporate diversification into horizontal...

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Innovation Capabilities: Comparing Science and Engineering Employment in Canadian and U.S. Cities

Brown, W. Mark; Beckstead, Desmond - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

In recent years, cities have become increasingly interested in their ability to generate, attract and retain human capital. One measure of human capital is employment in science- and engineering-based occupations. This paper provides a comparison of the employment shares of these specialized...

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Inequality Aversion and Performance in and on the Field

Torgler, Benno; Schaffner, Markus; Frey, Bruno S.; … - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2008

performance in a real competitive environment with real tasks and real incentives. …

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Do Employees Care About Their Relative Position? Behavioural Evidence Focusing on Performance.

Torgler, Benno; Schaffner, Markus; Schmidt, Sascha L.; … - School of Economics and Finance, Business School - 2008

raise or lower their performance? Behavioral evidence on these important questions is rare. This paper takes a novel … positional concerns and envy reduce individual performance. In contrast, there does not seem to be any tolerance for income …

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Looking Awkward When Winning and Foolish When Losing: Inequity Aversion and Performance in the Field

Torgler, Benno; Schaffner, Markus; Frey, Bruno S.; … - School of Economics and Finance, Business School - 2008

performance in a real competitive environment with real tasks and real incentives. …

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Capacites d'innovation : comparaison de l'emploi en sciences et en genie dans les villes canadiennes et americaines

Brown, W. Mark; Beckstead, Desmond - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

-2001. Cette comparaison donne une idee de la performance des villes canadiennes relativement a leurs analogues americaines au …

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Changements observes au niveau de la diversification des entreprises du secteur canadien de la fabrication (de 1973 a 1997)

Beckstead, Desmond; Caves, Richard; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

Le present document de recherche etudie les changements observes au niveau de la diversification des entreprises et des usines depuis le debut des annees 70 dans le secteur canadien de la fabrication. Il revele qu'il y a eu, en general, une augmentation de la specialisation tant des entreprises...

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Changes in the Diversification of Canadian Manufacturing Firms and Plants (1973-1997): A Move to Specialization

Beckstead, Desmond; Caves, Richard; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

This paper studies changes in diversification of firms and plants since the early 1970s in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It finds that there has been a general increase in specialization of both firms and plants. Firms have been continuously reducing the span of industries in which they...

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Looking Awkward When Winning and Foolish When Losing: Inequity Aversion and Performance in the Field

Torgler, Benno; Schaffner, Markus; Frey, Bruno S.; … - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008

performance in a real competitive environment with real tasks and real incentives. …

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