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Evaluating the Liquidity of Stocks using Transaction Data
Ivanchuk, Nataliya - 2004
In recent years a substantial amount of literature in one way or another deals with liquidity. The interest in it grows … measures of liquidity and publish them in the regular reports. But as in literature, there is still no consensus as what … liquidity really means and how it should be measured, or reported, understood or predicted, as the consistent summary of what …
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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006
Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …
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Strategies in Financial Services, the Shareholders and the System Is Bigger and Broader Better?
Walter, Ingo - 2002
, however measured, and the range of activities conducted by them. Is size positively related to total returns to shareholders …? If so, does this involve gains in efficiency or transfers of wealth to shareholders from other constituencies, or maybe … shareholders and customers, or can it work against their interests in ways that may ultimately impede shareholder value as well …
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Japan's Economy: The Idiosyncratic Recovery Continues
Patrick, Hugh - 2007
challenges that involve divestitures, mergers, and acquisitions. Activist shareholders are playing an increasingly important yet …
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Privatisation in Australia and the western economies in the 1990's: Distributional and political effects of accounting and financial reporting
Gowland, D; Aiken, M - 2009
This article captures the effects of 1990's privatization two decades later and challenges whether the expected outcomes of Government debt reduction, a change in share ownership, reduced union and government intervention, and improved efficiency have been achieved. It also addresses whether the...
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15.997 Advanced Corporate Risk Management, Spring 2007
Parsons, John E.; Obizhaeva, Anna - 2007
Opportunity for group study by graduate students on current topics related to management not otherwise included in curriculum. From the course home page: Course Description This is a course on how corporations make use of the insights and tools of risk management. Most courses on derivatives,...
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Two essays on monetary union and international finance
Mahajan, Arvind (contributor); Saving, Thomas (contributor) - 2005
corporate liquidity (cash holdings of firms) from15 European Union (EU) countries [12 Economic and Monetary Union (EMU … the corporate liquidity literature are fourfold.First, I provide evidence that creditor rights also affect corporate … liquidity and theireffect is more consistent than that of shareholder rights. Second, I show that the recentformation of EMU …
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Essays on international corporate cash holdings
Jia, Yonghong - 2011
This dissertation is composed of two distinct chapters. The first chapter is concerned with the secular trends in corporate cash holdings and the determinants of the changing cash policies for seven industrialized countries--Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the US, and UK. In the first...
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Essays in corporate finance
Laranjeira, Bruno d. - 2011
This thesis presents two essays in Corporate Finance. In the first essay, I use the August 2007 crisis episode to gauge the effect of financial contracting on real firm behavior. I identify heterogeneity in financial contracting at the onset of the crisis by exploiting ex-ante variation in...
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Financial Markets and Public Information
Storkenmaier, Andreas - 2011
Newswire messages make up a major part of the public information set available to investors. The last decades have seen drastic changes in trading technology and the way that financial markets operate. As trading technology advances, news providers have kept pace and deliver news to market...
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