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Financial Development, Financial Structure, and Domestic Investment: International Evidence
Ndikumana, Léonce - 2003
Does it matter for domestic investment whether a country’s financial system is bank based or stock-market based? This … paper posits that financial intermediation affects domestic investment notably by alleviating financing constraints …, allowing firms to increase investment in response to increased demand for output. The key result is that the structure of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467754
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Opportunities and costs of portfolio diversification in sadc's smallest equity markets
Hearn B.; Piesse J. - 2008
implications of adopting a minimum investment retention levy by the smaller states is examined. Namibia is found to exhibit the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480484
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Some Stylized Facts on the Finance-Dominated Accumulation Regime
Stockhammer, Engelbert - 2007
investment behaviour, consumption behaviour and government expenditures, investigating to what extent changes are related to … financialization. Households experience higher debt levels. Rising profits of businesses come with only moderate investment. The notion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468084
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Essays in Telecommunications Economics
Heimeshoff, Gerrit Ulrich - 2008
In the past decades telecommunications markets all over the world have changed immensely. Liberalization and … the determinants of telecommunications investments and presents two possible solutions to the investment problem. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451158
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The relationship between the annualised volatility and correlation of G7 ten-year bond returns
Hollander, Martin B. L.; Faculty of Business - University of Western Sydney, Nepean - 1999
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between the annualised volatility and correlation of G7 ten-year bond returns for the period July 1992 to June 1998 and the effects that such a relationship has on portfolio diversification. The stock market crash of 1987 and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481952
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Regional integration of equity markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
Piesse J.; Hearn B. - 2005
Equity markets in developing and emerging economies have grown in number and importance as a result of financial market globalisation. However, their role in economic growth and development is enhanced if nascent markets are integrated with well-established ones. Market integration, measured by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480491
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Financial Structure and Profitability Analysis of Greek Hotels
DIAKOMIHALIS, MIHAIL N - 2011
This study examines the financial structure and profitability of various categories of Greek hotels for the 2005-2007 period, three years following the 2004 Olympics in Athens and just before the 2008 economic crisis in Greece. The research sample consisted of 146 private two, three, four and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467740
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Globalization and Firms' Financing Choices: Evidence from Emerging Economies
Schmukler, Sergio; Vesperoni, Esteban - 2001
This paper studies the relation between firm's financing choices and financial globalization. Using an East Asian and Latin American firm-level panel for the 1980s and 1990s, we study how leverage ratios, debt maturity structure, and sources of financing change when economies are liberalized and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477460
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How will ageing affect the structure of financial markets
Davis, EP - 2007
The ageing of the world population is an ineluctable process with major economicimplications. Whereas there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481465
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The Measurement of Impacts of Tax Rates on the Risk Level of Listed Viet Nam Banking Firms During 2009-2011
Huy, Dinh Tran Ngoc - 2013
The emerging stock market in Viet Nam has been developed since 2006 and affected by the financial crisis 2007-2009. This paperwork analyzes the impacts of tax policy on market risk for the listed firms in the banking industry as it becomes necessary. First of all, by using quantitative and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011315658