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The relative efficiency of Jordanian banks and its determinants using data envelopment analysis
Ajlouni, Moh'd Mahmoud; Hmedat, Mohammad Waleed; … - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 3, pp. 33-58
efficient. Thus, commercial banks in Jordan with higher capital adequacy ratio are risk-averse and managing safer and lower …
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Idiosyncratic volatility, illiquidity and the expected stock returns : exploring the relationship with quantile regression
Wang, Mu-Shun - In: Investment management and financial innovations 9 (2012) 4, pp. 104-112
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Economic returns and risks to investment in education : an application of the multifactor CAPM
Athanassiadis, Antonios - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 95-120
calculating rates of return to education by incorporating the risk premium. Recognizing that market risk isn't the only factor … Multifactor CAPM. Following this model we assess, except market risk, the impact of three key macroeconomic variables (investments … respect to investment in education. We also evaluate the risk - adjusted performance of investment in education and the role …
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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
determine their investment decisions in contrast with investors in the stock market. The risk weighted returns however represent …
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The amendment and empirical test of arbitrage pricing models
Wang, Shaojun; Yang, Xiaoping; Cheng, Juan; Zhang, Yafang; … - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 1, pp. 163-177
The classical APT model is of the form r j - E(r j) = beta j(I - EI) + epsilon j, where r j - E(r j) is the earning deviation (called basic ariance-profit) of the security j, I is a common factor. This paper considers the impact on the securities return caused by the skewness and kurtosis of the...
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The stock selection problem : is the stock selection approach more important than the optimization method? : evidence from the Danish stock market
Grobys, Klaus - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 1, pp. 143-162
Passive investment strategies basically aim to replicate an underlying benchmark. Thereby, the management usually selects a subset of stocks being employed in the optimization procedure. Apart from the optimization procedure, the stock selection approach determines the stock portfolios's...
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Tests of the overreaction hypothesis and the timing of mean reversals on the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) : the case of South Africa
Hsieh, Heng-hsing; Hodnett, Kathleen - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 1, pp. 107-130
This paper examines the overreaction hypothesis on the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) documented by Page and Way [5] and Muller [4] over a longer and more recent period from 01 January 1993 to 31 March 2009. The mean reversals due to investor overreaction are found to be stronger for the past...
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Market timing and statistical arbitrage : which market timing opportunities arise from equity price busts coinciding with recessions? : the Swedish stock market in the financial cr...
Grobys, Klaus - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 1, pp. 53-81
Even though a random walk process is from a statistical point of view not predictable, some movements can be correlated with specific events concerning other variables. Then, predictable patterns may arise being dependent on this joint event. There is evidence given that equity price busts being...
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Hedge ratios for short and leveraged ETFs
Schubert, Leo - In: Atlantic review of economics 1 (2011), pp. 1-33
, due to a very skewed return distribution of the hedge. The risk measure target-shortfall probability confirms the use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009958835
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Esquemas de incentivos y carteras de inversión innovadoras
Loyola, Gino; Portilla, Yolanda - In: Estudios de economía 37 (2010) 1, pp. 43-66
to the selection of high risk-high return portfolios. In particular, it provides conditions under which a non …
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