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Efficiency in Islamic banking during a financial crisis : an empirical analysis of forty-seven banks
Said, Ali - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 3, pp. 163-197
The present paper measured the efficiency of Islamic banks during economic troubles of 2006-2009 to address the question if Islamic banks were efficient and stable. This paper addresses this question by measuring efficiency through employing the on-parametric technique, Data Envelopment Analysis...
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Market for investment banking products in modern economy
Michalczyk, Leszek - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 8 (2012) 1, pp. 14-22
This article is divided into four sections. In the first one, we describe the origin and history of investment banking … those areas of investment banking which stand a chance to flourish in the aftermath of the crisis. In this last section, we … domestic universal banking) investment banking in Poland is the preserve of foreign investment banks and their Polish branches …
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El papel moderador de la cultura en la generacion de statisfacción y lealtad
Medina Molina, Cayetano; Rufín Moreno, Ramón; Rey … - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 17 (2011) 1, pp. 57-73
The present research focuses on the differences that the tourists' belonging to two unlike cultural groups - i.e., low uncertainty avoidance individualists versus high uncertainty avoidance collectivists - imposes on the performance of the model explaining the generation of satisfaction and...
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The labour supply effects of a partial cash-out of in-kind transfers to single mothers
Bingley, Paul; Walker, Ian - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-27
We estimate a model of labour supply and participation in multiple cash and in-kind welfare programmes. The modeling exploits a reform that affected U.K. single mothers. In-work cash entitlements increased under this reform but eligibility to in-kind child nutrition programmes was lost for some...
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The influence of organisational culture on the total quality management programme performance
Roldán, José L.; Leal-Rodríguez, Antonio L.; Leal, … - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 18 (2012) 3, pp. 183-189
This paper aims to examine the relationships between different types of cultures and effectiveness in Total Quality Management (TQM) implementation. Using Cameron’s framework, we have tested the connection between a quality culture taxonomy and TQM programme performance using data from a...
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Algunas observaciones acerca del uso de software en la estimación del modelo Half-Normal
Ortega Irizo, Francisco Javier; Gavilán Ruiz, José Manuel - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 11 (2011), pp. 3-16
Using the maximum likelihood method, in order to estimate Half-Normal stochastic frontier production models, entails several practical di±culties that, perhaps, have not been su±ciently emphasised. In employing FRONTIER software, we analyse the case in which the estimation obtained suggests...
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Residual Grey Markov model for the developments of GDP, population and energy consumption in Iran
Mostafaei, Hamidreza; Kordnoori, Shaghayegh - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 2, pp. 93-105
Grey system theory can powerfully deal with incomplete and uncertain information. In this paper, we introduced an improved grey GM(1,1) model that integrates residual modification with Markov chain model. By this model, we improved the forecast accuracy of original grey forecast model and...
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Measuring exchange rate fluctuations risk using the value-at-risk
Akhtekhane, Saeed Shaker; Mohammadi, Parastoo - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 3, pp. 65-79
The paper intends to measure the daily Value-at-Risk (VaR) for Rial-Euro exchange rate fluctuations risk. Since in this case we deal with a single risk factor, so we will not use the Monte Carlo simulation method to measure the VaR and we will only use the parametric and historical simulation...
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Estimación de reservas en una compañía aseguradora : una aplicación en Excel del método Chain-Ladder y Bootstrap
Álvarez-Jareño, José Antonio; Coll-Serrano, Vicente - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 14 (2012), pp. 124-136
Insurance companies have to estimate reserves and provisions to cover the payment of either unreported claims or unsettled claims. In this paper, we apply the Chain-Ladder method to obtain a point estimate of reserves, and then we use the bootstrap technique to estimate the margin of error and...
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Un modelo de consenso para problemas de toma de decisiones multicriterio en grupo mediante relaciones de preferencia intervalares difusas lingüísticas
Tapia García, Juan Miguel; Moral, María José del; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 14 (2012), pp. 36-53
In some circumstances a decision maker, expert, in a group decision making problem cannot express his/her preferences with a unique linguistic fuzzy preference because he/she is dubious into some preferences. In this paper, we present a consensus model for group decision making problems with...
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