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International asset pricing and exchange rate risk: theoretical exposition, numerical analysis, and empirical investigation under integrated and frictional capital markets
Bayraktar, Sema - 2002
This thesis examines the impact of exchange rate risk on asset pricing under varying market structures. To understand this effect, in the first part of the thesis the analytical derivation of an international asset-pricing model within a mean-variance framework is attempted. In the second part,...
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The implementation of strategic decisions at the Social Security Commission in Namibia
Ndara, Daniel Sipopa - 2009
The study was conducted to determine the key obstacles to strategy implementation at the Social Security Commission. The objective was to establish various factors that inhibit successful strategy implementation and explore alternative approaches that could be adopted to facilitate effective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457817
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The Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence: Rewarding World-Class Practices
Chakravorty, Satya S.; Atwater, J. Bryan; Herbert, James I. - 2008
Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459022
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Determinants of the Relations between Transitory Earnings and CEO Cash Compensation in the USA
Asthana, Sharad; Ye, Zhongxia Shelly - 2007
effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459069
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A study of outsourcing of premedia services to India by US companies
Nayak, Rahul P. - 2009
Offshore outsourcing continues to gain prominence as the printing industrystrides into the future. With different segments of the industry looking at reducingcosts and, in exchange providing value-added services, more companies turntowards outsourcing services offshore as a solution. Although it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459219
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The Case for Taxing Consumption
Lang, Joachim - 1990
This article deals with fundamental and topical problems of taxation policy, viewing the subject from both a German and an international perspective. Traditional income tax regimes in developed countries with their progressive tax rates are still based upon the redistributive philosophy which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441794
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DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN CAPITAL AS A TOOL FOR IMPROVING PRODUCTIVITY OF AGRICULTURAL SECTOR – CASE OF SERBIA
Zubovic, Jovan; Domazet, Ivana; Stosic, Ivan - 2009
New trends in global economy require greater capacity of the agricultural workforce. In order improve agricultural productivity it is needed to increase the level of human capital of the agrarian population. Human capital is accumulatedknowledge, created in the long term process of human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445915
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Micro Gains From Micro Reform
Quiggin, John - 1998
Large estimates of the benefits of microeconomic reform have been put forward in official studies. By contrast, Quiggin …. Overstated claims about the benefits of microeconomic reform have distorted Australia's economic priorities and encouraged an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447973
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Insurance, Pooling, and Resistance to Reform : the Case of Individual Uncertainty
Friehe, Tim - 2008
contrast two insurance regimes; the status quo of mandated pooling of all risk types and the reform proposal being insurance … with risk-type separation over time, using Bayesian updating. Most individuals would benefit from the reform since their … risk type is better than the average but the reform does not occur due to individual uncertainty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471848
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International Coercion, Emulation and Policy Diffusion: Market-Oriented Infrastructure Reforms, 1977-1999
Henisz, Witold J.; Zelner, Bennet A.; Guillen, Mauro F. - 2004
-history analysis of the determinants of reform in the telecommunications and electricity sectors of as many as 205 countries and … borrowing countries. We discuss the possibility that, by pressuring countries into policy reform, cross-national coercion and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477140