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It Pays to Set the Menu: Mutual Fund Investment Options in 401(k) plans
Pool, Veronika K.; Sialm, Clemens; Stefanescu, Irina - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2014
This paper investigates whether mutual fund families acting as service providers in 401(k) plans display favoritism …
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Benin; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
The strategy adopted by Benin to strengthen its macroeconomic stability and promote private-investment-led growth has been detailed in the note. The statistical data on gross domestic product by sector of origin at current prices and at constant supply, production and producer prices of cotton,...
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Kingdom of Swaziland; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix for the Kingdom of Swaziland assesses the interaction of nonbank financial institutions (NBFIs) within the financial system and the real economy. Understanding the type of flows will help in designing policies to better manage capital flows and...
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АКТИВЫ ИНВЕСТИЦИОННЫХ ФОНДОВ УКРАИНЫ В ПЕРИОД ФИНАНСОВОГО КРИЗИСА
БЕЛОВ Д. - In: Вісник Киiвського … (2012) 3, pp. 52-55
Статья содержит сравнительный анализ доходности различных инвестиционных фондов в Украине, изменений в структуре их активов и стоимости чистых активов в...
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Taxing Financial Transactions; An Assessment of Administrative Feasibility
Brondolo, John - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This paper considers how a tax on financial transactions could be applied to three broad and partially overlapping categories of financial instruments: (1) exchange-traded instruments; (2) over-the-counter instruments; and, (3) foreign exchange instruments. For each category, the paper examines...
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Monaco; Technical Note on IOSCO Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation: Update
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This Technical Note reviews the International Organization of Securities Commissions’s (IOSCO) Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation for Monaco. It reveals that overall, there has been progress in implementing the Offshore Financial Center assessment recommendations in most areas...
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Selection of Socially Responsible Portfolios Using Hedonic Prices
Bilbao-Terol, Amelia; Arenas-Parra, Mar; … - In: Journal of Business Ethics 115 (2013) 3, pp. 515-529
This paper presents a novel framework for selecting socially responsible investment (SRI) portfolios. The Hedonic Price Method (HPM) is applied to obtain an evaluation of SRI criteria that is integrated into a multi-objective mathematical programming model. The HPM breaks away from the...
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On selecting portfolio of international mutual funds using goal programming with extended factors
Tamiz, Mehrdad; Azmi, Rania A.; Jones, Dylan F. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 226 (2013) 3, pp. 560-576
This paper proposes and investigates the use of several factors for portfolio selection of international mutual funds. Three of the selected factors are specific to mutual funds, additional three factors are taken from Macroeconomics and one factor represents regional and country preferences....
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Perceptions of the ethicality of favors at work in Asia: An 11-society assessment
Karam, Charlotte; Ralston, David; Egri, Carolyn; Butt, Arif - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 30 (2013) 2, pp. 373-408
between socio-cultural (i.e., traditional/secular; survival/self-expression; in-group favoritism) and business ideology … (HLM) suggest that both the World Value Survey’s socio-cultural values as well as in-group favoritism contribute to our … subordinate use of favoritism across Asian societies. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 …
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Ingratiation and Favoritism : Experimental Evidence
Robin, Stéphane; Rusinowska, Agnieszka; Villeval, … - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2012
We provide experimental evidence of workers’ ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers’ discrimination in favor of workers with whom they share similar opinions. In our Baseline, managers can observe both workers’ performance at a task and opinions before assigning unequal...
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