Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 4,282
Cover Image
Turkey at the Crossroads; From Crisis Resolution to EU Accession
McGettigan, Donal; Debrun, Xavier; Griffiths, Mark E. L.; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
The key policy challenge for Turkey in the years ahead will be to enhance and consolidate the advances made since the nation’s 2000-01 economic crisis. Higher growth could reduce unemployment and raise living standards toward European Union levels. This paper reviews Turkey’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005767368
Cover Image
Performance measures quality and value relevance in flow-through organisational structures: the case of Canadian income trusts
Lapointe-Antunes, Pascale; Cormier, Denis; Magnan, Michel - In: International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and … 4 (2007) 6, pp. 547-571
Income trusts are rapidly emerging as a key force in Canadian capital markets and their unit market capitalisation exceeded 300 billion Canadian dollars by early 2008. One of the peculiarities of income trusts is that GAAP-derived measures, such as earnings, are replaced by non-GAAP measures,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008538729
Cover Image
Performance measures quality and value relevance in flow-through organisational structures: the case of Canadian income trusts
Lapointe-Antunes, Pascale; Cormier, Denis; Magnan, Michel - In: International Journal of Accounting, Auditing and … 4 (2007) 6, pp. 547-571
Income trusts are rapidly emerging as a key force in Canadian capital markets and their unit market capitalisation exceeded 300 billion Canadian dollars by early 2008. One of the peculiarities of income trusts is that GAAP-derived measures, such as earnings, are replaced by non-GAAP measures,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754559
Cover Image
Short selling and equity returns with full information dissemination
Alexakis, Panayotis - In: International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance 4 (2011) 2, pp. 150-171
This paper sheds further light on whether short selling can be associated with negative returns in the spot market. It provides evidence for the case of the capital market of the Athens Exchange (ATHEX) that is empirically tested for the first time, during the period 2003–2007. This market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352476
Cover Image
Capital market development in an emerging economy and the challenge of fostering foreign participation
Edo, Samson E. - In: International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance 4 (2011) 2, pp. 195-215
This paper investigates the contribution of foreign investors to capital market development in an emerging economy. The findings reveal that Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPI) as well as foreign issue of securities (FS) made insignificant contribution to development of the market compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352480
Cover Image
How socially responsible investing can help bridge the gap between Islamic and conventional financial markets
Bennett, Michael S.; Iqbal, Zamir - In: International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern … 6 (2013) July, pp. 211-225
Purpose – Islamic finance and socially responsible investing (SRI) have been two of the most rapidly growing areas of … finance over the last two decades. During this period, they have each grown at rates that far exceed that of the financial …. Findings – Islamic finance has grown at a very impressive rate over the last two decades, but the Islamic fixed income market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814675
Cover Image
Uruguay Capital Market: Law-in-the-books or Law-in-action?
Siandra, Eduardo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2005
This paper discusses the process of legal infrastructure reform to build better institutions for capital market development in Uruguay during the 1990s. It contains a description, a brief literature survey, an explanation, and an evaluation. From this we draw lessons and make a prospective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649856
Cover Image
Financial Systems and Capital Markets: an alternative view
Mavroudeas, Stavros; Lapavitsas, Costas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
literature on the relationship between finance and the economy. Then, the function of the capital markets is analysed. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645096
Cover Image
Securitization: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead
Basurto, Miguel A. Segoviano; Jones, Bradley; Lindner, Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
This paper examines the financial stability implications arising from securitization markets, with one eye on the past and another on the future. The paper begins by deriving a number of “lessons learned†based on an examination of key industry developments in the years before the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142086
Cover Image
Accounting and the Macroeconomy: The Case of Aggregate Price-Level Effects on Individual Stocks
Konchitchki, Yaniv - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This study sheds new light on the cross-sectional effects of inflation, which have substantial implications for stock valuation. I use financial statement analysis to examine systematic stock-valuation effects of aggregate price-level changes on individual companies, focusing on the implications...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259622