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Essays on the financial governance of firms
Wilson, Linus; Roberts, Kevin W. S. - 2007
Four essays, or chapters, model the capital structure, governance, and investment decisions as part of a sequential game. Each chapter is separate in its context, assumptions, and conclusions. The titles of the chapters are below.Abstracts of each essay or chapter can be found at the beginning...
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Analysis of the Capital Structure of German Companies with the SSA and SVM
Pohlmann, Tim Fabien - 2007
This thesis presents and compares the performance of two recently developed classification methods namely the Spatial Stagewise Aggregation procedure and Support Vector Machines. Both techniques are convenient for the application to corporate bankruptcy analysis, in terms of calculation of...
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The Economics of Corporate Bankruptcy Law
Wohlschlegel, Ansgar - 2002
Apart from an extensive survey of the literature on the economics of corporate bankruptcy law, this thesis contains three own contributions: First, a model is presented where a firm's manager acquires some private information about whether a firm should be liquidated or stay in business....
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Asset Pricing bei heterogenen Erwartungen : Analyse der Auswirkungen von heterogenen Erwartungen auf Wertpapierpreise und Wertpapierpreisbewegungen
Schnelle, Pascal - 2009
Die neoklassische Kapitalmarkttheorie und die ihr zugeordneten Standard-Asset-Pricing-Modelle gehen grundsätzlich von … neoklassischen Kapitalmarkttheorie erscheint es als logische Konsequenz, dass sich in einigen Bereichen der Kapitalmarktforschung … wissenschaftlichen Schrifttum aber an einem Rahmenwerk, welches sich dem gesamten Forschungsbereich Kapitalmarkttheorie bei …
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Cost efficiency in Australian non-bank financial institutions: A non-parametric approach
Worthington, Andrew C. - 2000
A two-stage procedure is employed to evaluate non-bank financial institution cost efficiency. In the first stage, data envelopment analysis is used to calculate technical, allocative and cost efficiency indices using a sample of two hundred Australian credit unions. The results indicate that a...
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Transmission of equity returns and volatility in Asian developed and emerging markets : a multivariate Garch analysis
Worthington, Andrew C.; Higgs, Helen - 2004
This paper examines the transmission of equity returns and volatility among Asian equity markets and investigates the differences that exist in this regard between the developed and emerging markets. Three developed markets (Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore) and six emerging markets (Indonesia,...
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Losing Sleep At The Market: An Empirical Note On The Daylight Saving Anomaly In Australia
Worthington, Andrew C. - 2003
The ‘daylight saving effect’ predicts that the mean weekend return following the spring and fall/autumn changes in daylight saving time is less than the mean weekend return throughout the rest of the year. With this market anomaly, the change in market participants’ behaviour is linked...
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Technical Efficiency and Technological Change in Australian Building Societies
Worthington, Andrew C. - 2000
In this study the nature and extent of efficiency and productivity growth in deposit-taking institutions is investigated using nonparametric frontier techniques. Employing Malmquist indices, productivity growth is decomposed into technical efficiency change and technological change for a sample...
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Technical and economic assessment of utility interactive PV systems for domestic applications in south-east Queensland
Khouzam, Kamel Y. - 1999
Electric utilities in Australia have been developing policies to stimulate interest and permit the purchase of electricity generated by renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic systems (PV). Studies show that under current conditions, it is technically feasible to introduce small-scale,...
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Financing the Celtic Tigress: Venturing Financing and Informal Investment in Ireland
O'Gorman, Colm; Terjesen, Siri A. - 2006
This study explores gender differences in entrepreneurship and informal investment in Ireland, a country with one of the lowest rates of female entrepreneurship in the developed world. Females in Ireland are less likely than males to be engaged in either the demand for (as entrepreneurs), or the...
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