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Dynamic panel model of dividend policies : Malaysian perspective
Shafai, Nor Anis; Nasir, Annuar Md.; Fakarudin Kamarudin; … - In: Contemporary economics 13 (2019) 3, pp. 239-252
The aim of this paper is to identify the key determinants of the dividend policies for Malaysian listed firms. The sample in this study incorporates the top 100 listed firms on Bursa Malaysia (Bursa) over a ten-year period from 2007 to 2016. The dynamic panel data set was constructed using the...
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Speed of Adjustment in Dividend Payout Decisions : A Comparative Analysis of Developed and Developing Countries
Koussis, Nicos - 2020
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Dividend behaviour and smoothing new evidence from Jordanian panel data
Al-Najjar, Basil - In: Studies in Economics and Finance 26 (2009) August, pp. 182-197
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate dividend policy decisions in developing countries through studying Jordanian non-financial firms. It aims to highlight the issue of dividend policy and the behaviour of dividends in Jordan as an emerging market. Design/methodology/approach...
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Advertising, Economic Development, and Global Warming
Erickson, Gary - 2012
Advertising is tied to global warming through an endogenous growth model. The model allows for the possibility that the environment can become a source rather than a sink for greenhouse gases. Optimal control analysis of the model shows that a feasible steady state is possible for which the...
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Modelling the Policy Challenges Confronting Globalising Developing Countries
Karunaratne, Neil Dias - 2012
The paper models the policy challenges facing globalising developing countries. Models from pure theory of international trade, the small open economy model, growth accounting, the Solow-Swan model, the Gravity Model, Models of Portfolion Diversification, Currency Crises Models. These models are...
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Fiscal Policy, Public Capital and Economic Growth
Altar, Moisa - 2008
The effect of public investment on economic growth is a crucial public policy issue. Empirical research into this … determining the robustness of his position. The present paper analyses the way in which public investment and fiscal policy … influences the performances of economic growth. We analyze the impact of public investment on the dynamics of private capital …
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Risk Profiles for Re-Profiling the Sovereign Debt of Crisis Countries
Consiglio, Andrea - 2016
This paper uses a risk-management approach to re-profile the sovereign debt of countries facing debt crises. Using scenario analysis we develop a risk measure of the sovereign's debt -- Conditional Debt-at-Risk -- and an optimization model is used to trace risk profiles that tradeoff expected...
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Analysis of the Seeds of the Debt Crisis in Europe
Yener, Haluk - 2020
This paper presents an analysis of the seeds of the recent debt crisis that occurred in the Eurozone area using a variant of Fleming and Stein model [2004. “Stochastic Optimal Control, International Finance and Debt.” Journal of Banking and Finance, 28: 979–996]. This model has two risk...
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Proper Adjustments
Wu, Lixin - 2015
In derivatives pricing, funding costs and counterparty credit risks are intimately related and should be treated consistently. Working under the framework of arbitrage pricing, Lixin Wu shows a proper way to formulate and evaluate the adjustments to the risk-free valuation of a derivative for...
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Smoking and Health Investments : Impacts of Health Adaptation and Damage Reversibility
Carbone, Jared C.; Kverndokk, Snorre; Røgeberg, Ole Jorgen - 2008
rational smoker. By embedding the rational addiction theory in a Grossman model of health investment modified to take account …
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