This paper develops a framework that analyzes how mergers and acquisitions in Alberta’s oil and gas industry affect stock prices. In this experiment, a multivariate regression is applied to several industry-specific variables to determine if they have impacts on the abnormal stock returns of...

The oil sector and the choice of accounting system in Libya are very important factors that have the potential to affect Libya's economic development. Revenue from the oil sector forms the bedrock of Libya's economy and the accounting system used to report the performance of the oil sector...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The central research question of this study concerns the level of political risk that the Ogadenregion of eastern Ethiopia poses for companies operating in, or intending to operating in the oiland gas industry of that region. The aim is to answer that question as well as two...

This thesis presents an econometric methodology for analyzing the impact of market concentration (HHI) on the day rate prices paid by E&P operators for the lease of drilling rigs. It is an extension of the work of Lee (2008), ‘Measuring the Impact of Concentration in the Drilling Rig...

Market approaches to limit CO2e emissions such as carbon taxes and emissions trading schemes (ETSs) aim to avoid dangerous anthropogenic climate change by ascribing a financial cost to emissions. Yet such approaches have failed to establish either emissions limits or carbon prices equal to the...

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Innovation has long been considered crucial for companies to gain a competitive edge in the global marketplace. Unfortunately, a solid understanding of the system of innovation does not exist. The literature lacks formal definitions and methodologies for the system of innovation. Many surrogates...

Which form of exchange governance performs better in a dynamic environment? This remains an unanswered question in the transaction cost analysis (TCA) and relational exchange literatures. Some researchers purport that transactional governance provides superior performance by providing firms the...

Why is the economy “complex”? For all the recent advances in the management sciences, businesses today face markets full of unexpected events, from cascading failures of lending institutions to speculative investment and the explosive growth of tech firms. In this talk, I argue that the...

Achieving supply chain management among firms in the Indonesian mango industry is a worthwhile goal, for such will provide opportunities for supply chains to better respond to the dynamics of international and domestic markets. This paper discusses supply chain formation for the purpose of...