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The Malaysian REIT development and their role in a portfolio

Osmadi, Atasya - University of Western Sydney; College of Business; … - 2010

This PhD research will examine the development, performance and impact of Malaysian REITs in the local, Asian and global REIT investment market; particularly focusing on Islamic REITs in Malaysia. This issue is important as REITs have emerged as a topic of considerable interest to the academic...

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Quantitative analyses of long-run human capital development: age heaping as an indicator for numeracy

Crayen, Dorothee - 2009

For researchers studying the economic development of nations, the availability of human capital data is crucial. Economists making efforts to examine the impact of human resources on economic development before the end of World War II often face massive problems. Methods of collecting data,...

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Does the gross domestic product still have relevance as an indicator for wealth? A critical analysis of alternative approaches

Schwarz, Markus - 2011

This bachelor thesis is about wealth and how to measure it. The thesis shows what or who can be called wealthy today …. There will be answers whether the gross domestic product is the proper tool for measuring wealth. For being able to do that …, the different dimensions of wealth are explained. This is followed by basic principles which introduce the measurement of …

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Financial frictions and the wealth distribution

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Hurtado López, Samuel; … - 2020

We postulate a nonlinear DSGE model with a financial sector and heterogeneous households. In our model, the interaction between the supply of bonds by the financial sector and the precautionary demand for bonds by households produces significant endogenous aggregate risk. This risk induces an...

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Wealth inequality and household structure : US vs. Spain

Bover Hidiroglu, Olympia - 2008

We study the link between culturally inherited household structure and wealth distribution in international comparisons … distribution. Imposing the Spanish household structure to the US wealth distribution has little effect on summary measures of … between these wealth distribution differences and wealth composition. Finally, we present results for the within …

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Controlling a distribution of heterogeneous agents

Nuño Barrau, Galo; Moll, Benjamin - 2015

, we analyze the constrained-efficient allocation of an Aiyagari economy with a fat-tailed wealth distribution. We find … that the constrained-efficient allocation features more wealth inequality than the competitive equilibrium …

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Wie aussagefähig sind internationale Steuerbelastungsvergleiche von Investitionen? Eine Analyse am Beispiel der Studie von Jacobs / Spengel.

Enßlin, Ulrich - 1998

Die zwei Ansätze sind konzeptionell gesehen zweckmäßige Berechnungswege,115um ihregesteckten Ziele zu erreichen. Um die Rentabilitätswirkung der Steuersysteme zu messenund zu vergleichen, muß bei dem Ansatz der effektiven Grenzsteuerbelastung auf eineentscheidungsneutrale...

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An Empirical Survey of Individual Consumer, Business Firm and Financial Institution Attitudes towards Islamic Methods of Finance

Gait, A.; Worthington, A. C. - 2007

Islamic finance – financial institutions, products and services designed to comply with the central tenets of Sharia (Islamic law) – is one of the most rapidly growing segments in global financial services. However, despite its growing importance, it is only relatively recently that attempts...

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An analysis of risk sharing in Islamic finance with reference to Pakistan

Khan, Tariqullah - 1996

The Islamic law prohibits charging and paying of interest but allowsearning profits on the basis of participation in the market. This legal injunctionhas motivated the establishment and successful operation of a number ofIslamic financial institutions. The emergence and rise of these...

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An Investigation into the Impact of Income, Culture and Religion on Consumption Behaviour: A Comparative Study of the Malay and the Chinese Consumers in Malaysia

Fatt Sian, Lai - 2009

The study of consumer behaviour has attracted much attention from researchers.Models have been postulated and re-postulated in many attempts to explain thedecision process of consumers as it changes over time and space, as well as indifferent environments such as culture, race and religion. The...

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