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Collateral, Debt Capacity, and Corporate Investment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Gan, Jie - 2007
This paper examines how a shock to collateral value, caused by asset market fluctuations, influences the debt capacities and investments of firms. Using a source of exogenous variation in collateral value provided by the land market collapse in Japan, I find a large impact of collateral on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009472550
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Modeling Factions for 'Effects Based Operations': Part II Behavioral Game Theory
Silverman, Barry G; Bharathy, Gnana K; Nye, Benjamin; … - 2007
Military, diplomatic, and intelligence analysts are increasingly interested in having a valid system of models that span the social sciences and interoperate so that one can determine the effects that may arise from alternative operations (courses of action) in different lands. Part I of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438897
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Modeling Factions for ‘Effects Based Operations’: Part II – Behavioral Game Theory
Silverman, Barry G; Bharathy, Gnana; Nye, Benjamin; … - 2007
Military, diplomatic, and intelligence analysts are increasingly interested in having a valid system of models that span the social sciences and interoperate so that one can determine the effects that may arise from alternative operations (courses of action) in different lands. Part I of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439253
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The Economics of Malaria Vector Control
Brown, Zachary Steven - 2011
In recent years, government aid agencies and international organizations have increased their financial commitments to controlling and eliminating malaria from the planet. This renewed emphasis on elimination is reminiscent of a previous worldwide campaign to eradicate malaria in the 1960s, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475393
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Simulating the Impact of Community Culture and Governance in Virtual Innovation Communities
Yilmaz, Levent - 2009
There is no substitute to the intellectual disposition to innovate. To increase the value of creative thinking, ideas have to be transformed into wealth production through generation, promotion, and distribution of appreciated products and/or services in a timely and competitive way. To achieve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476082
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Essays on Banking and Capital: An Agent-Based Investigation
Romero, Pedro P. - 2009
How do institutional arrangements in banking affect the occurrence of crises?The first two chapters present an endeavor in using new modeling techniques toanswer this question. Even if the results are not widely accepted, the way inwhich the problem is tackled here is offered for consideration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009458912
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Asset price and wealth dynamics with heterogeneous expectations : a deterministic nonlinear structural model approach
Florian Heitger - 2010
Based on a classical financial market model different model variants known from the literature are discussed and analyzed, each focussing on modeling financial markets as a nonlinear dynamic system by introducing the formation of (heterogeneous) beliefs about future asset prices into the model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009428980
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Financial market contagion: evidence from the Asian crisis using a multivariate GARCH approach
Khalid, Ahmed M.; Rajaguru, Gulasekaran - 2007
increased during and after the crisis. However, we found weak support for contagion in the pre-crisis period. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441578
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Stock market contagion in the early stages of the global financial crisis: the experience of the GCC countries
Moosa, Imad - 2010
This study examines stock market contagion from the United States to the markets of the GCC countries during the period … that the collapse of the GCC stock markets did not result purely from contagion, in the sense that these markets did not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441584
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Was financial market contagion the source of economic crisis in Asia? Evidence using a multivariate VAR model
Khalid, Ahmed M; Kawai, Masahiro - 2003
have sparked and induced contagion. This study further extends the existing research by identifying and testing three … financial market variables to trace the alleged origin and the subsequent path of the contagion during the 1997 Asian Crisis … strong support for contagion. We further extend the analysis by looking at the impulse responses. The results still do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441798