Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) was signed into law on November 12, 1999.This act is regarded as the most influential deregulation for the U.S. financial servicesindustry in the past one-century. The purpose of this study is to determine and analyze thewealth effects of the GLBA on U.S. and...

This study measures the effect of changes in net housing and financial wealth on household consumption. The link between consumption, income and net wealth is measured within a Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares and a Dynamic Generalised Least Squares framework for the period Q2:1988-Q1:2003. It is...

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) was signed into law on November 12, 1999. This act is regarded as the most influential deregulation for the U.S. financial services industry in the past one-century. The purpose of this study is to determine and analyze the wealth effects of the GLBA on U.S. and...

This study examines the auditor switch effect on share prices among listed companies in Malaysia, mainly the Second Board companies during economic crisis and the economic growth period. Data on companies listed on the KLSE that reported switching of auditors were gathered from the respective...

Agri-environmental programs in Japan have generally been promoted through the provision of fixedpayments for certain environment-friendly farming and management practices. However, the auctioning of agrienvironmentalcontracts is a noteworthy alternative for the furtherance of such programs....

This dissertation investigates the latent but critical effects of risk attitude oncompetitive success in construction applying an evolutionary approach. The approachconsiders contractors as individual entities competing with each other for common jobopportunities, and competition as an...

This dissertation, which consists of three essays, studies online auctions boththeoretically and empirically.The first essay studies a special online auction format used by eBay, “Buy-It-Now” (BIN) auctions, in which bidders are allowed to buy the item at a fixed BINprice set by the seller...

Artículo de revista ; In recent years, information on the usage of cards as a means of payment has been increasingly used as an indicator of private consumption. The advantages of such information include its daily frequency and the short time lag from the moment of spending until it becomes...

Las familias de buena parte de los países desarrollados venían aumentando su endeudamiento desde los años ochenta, y este proceso se aceleró significativamente en los años previos a la Gran Recesión. Al mismo tiempo, durante ese periodo se produjo una disminución de su tasa de ahorro....