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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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Macroeconomic effects on DJSI-World returns

Sariannidis, Nikolaos; Koskosas, Ioannis; Kartalis, Nikos; … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 2 (2009) 2, pp. 95-110

One of the best known and highly regarded Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) indexes is the Dow Jones Sustainability Index World (D.J.S.I.-World). By using the model of Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH), the relation between D.J.S.I.-World returns to 10 year...

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The impact of stock, energy and foreign exchange markets on the sugar market

Sariannidis, Nikolaos - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 1, pp. 109-117

returns of Sugar futures as opposed to changes in volatility returns of the exchange rate of the U.S. Dollar/ Yen that affect … it negatively. Finally, the structural analysis of volatility with the GARCH model has shown that current volatility is … more influenced by past volatility rather than by the previous day shocks. -- GARCH model ; sugar futures ; crude oil …

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The determinants of cash flows in Greek bond mutual funds

Grose, Christos - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 55-77

This paper examines the factors that affect inflows - outflows of capital in bond mutual funds that operated in the Greek market during the period 1997-2005. Investors in bond mutual funds do not seek for high gross returns in order to determine their investment decisions in contrast with...

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Medidas extendidas de restricciones a los flujos de capitales

Selaive, Jorge; Velásquez, Beatriz; Villena, José Miguel - In: Estudios de economía 36 (2009) 1, pp. 97-115

In this work we extend a De Jure measure of capital account restrictions, previously assembled by Miniane (2004) for 34 economies, to a set of 181 countries for the period 1996-2005. Additionally, having in mind the pitfalls of this indicator, we propose two new measures. The first excludes...

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Share repurchases as a form of payout for shareholders

Kowerski, Mieczysław - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 4, pp. 37-54

Share repurchase happens when a company repurchases its own shares for any purpose determined by the general meeting of shareholders, including their further sale. Share repurchase is like dividend payout a form of transferring profit to shareholders. However, contrary to dividends, it is quite...

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Volatility modeling for forecasting stock index with fixed parameter distributional assumption

Rahman, Md. Mostafizur; Rahman, Md. Azizur; Hossain, … - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 1, pp. 109-122

The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate the in sample and out of sample forecasting performance of several GARCH-type models such as GARCH, EGARCH and APARCH model with Gaussian, student-t, Generalized error distribution (GED), student-t with fixed DOF 10 and GED with fixed parameter...

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The forecasting performances of volatility models in emerging stock markets : is a generalization really possible?

Iltuzer, Zeynep; Tas, Oktay - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 2, pp. 49-73

In almost all stages of forecasting volatility, certain subjective decisions need to be made. Despite of an enormous …. In order to find out outperforming model in general not just in the contexts of studies, volatility models should be …, EWMA), GARCH family models (GARCH, GRJ-GARCH, GARCH, APARCH, NAGARCH, FIGARCH) and Stochastic Volatility model. The …

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