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Applied financial economics
London : Routledge; 1991-1996: London : Chapman & Hall; … - 1.1991 -
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Financial reforms, interest rate behaviour and economic growth in Nigeria
Obamuyi, Tomola M.; Olorunfemi, Sola - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 4, pp. 39-55
The paper examines the implications of financial reform and interest rate behaviour on economic growth in Nigeria. The cointegration and error correction model were used on time series data from 1970-2006. The results demonstrate that financial reform and interest rates have significant impact...
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Compartmentalising gold prices
Sanderson, Rohnn - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 2, pp. 99-124
Deriving a functional form for a series of prices over time is difficult. It is common to assume some linearly estimable form for prediction purposes. While this can produce accurate short run forecasts it fails to identify longer trends and patterns that may exist in financial data....
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El crecimiento económico y el desarrollo del sistema finaciero, un análisis comparativo
Terceño, Antonio; Guercio, Maria Belén - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 17 (2011) 2, pp. 33-46
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the financial development and economic growth in Latin American countries. First, we show the high correlation between financial system indicators and GDP. Second, we test out that regardless the financial structure of each...
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The valuation implications of sales growth in start-up ventures
Gavious, Ilanit; Schwartz, Dafna - In: Journal of entrepreneurial finance : JEF ; official … 13 (2008) 2, pp. 1-24
We examine whether and how investors' reliance on financial information is affected by the rate of sales growth of a start-up venture. We find that investors discern between firms by the extent to which their products are adopted by the market. For firms that failed to increase their sales since...
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Do consumer attitudes matter in capital markets? : a study of mutual funds in Oman market
Tahseen, Arshi A.; Narayana, Surya - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 1, pp. 107-126
The financial sector particularly the mutual funds in Oman market have shown limited potential to attract consumers. Consumer attitudes towards financial investments have always been a challenge for the finance companies due to limited risk appetite of consumers which are largely attributed to...
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The dynamics of market share’s growth and competition in quadratic mappings
Dominique,C-René; Rivera Sollis, Luis Eduardo - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 2, pp. 219-235
This paper shows that the observed output of any market, placed within the confine of a quadratic map, can characterize the state of that market. Such an approach explains the process of market share’s growth and its pitfalls, the consequences of broken symmetry of scaling, as well as the...
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Portfolio Theory forward testing
Davidsson, Marcus - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 3, pp. 225-244
Portfolio Theory has during many decades been considered as the holy grail of investment despite the fact that very few … empirical studies in the public domain have shown that portfolio theory outperforms a random equal weighted portfolio. We will … in this paper empirically investigate how successful portfolio theory is when it comes to generating large positive …
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Banking industry consolidation and financial performance of selected quoted banks in Nigeria
Owolabi, Sunday Ajao; Ogunlalu, Adewale Emmanuel - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 3, pp. 219-238
In any economy, the banking industry is a highly regulated industry owing to the fact that the industry is considered as the engine of economic growth and development. The objective of this research is to analyze financial performances of pre and post consolidation program in order to determine...
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The effect of enterprise risk management implementation on the value of companies listed on the Nairobi Stock Exchange
Waweru, Nelson; Kisaka, Eric - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 3, pp. 81-105
This study assesses the level of implementation of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) in companies listed in the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE). The study also seeks to test the significance of factors affecting this level of ERM implementation and to investigate whether the level of ERM...
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