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Purpose – People often face constraints such as a lack of time or information in taking decisions, which leads them to use heuristics. In these situations, fast and frugal rules may be useful for making adaptive decisions with fewer resources, even if it leads to suboptimal choices. When...
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This paper provides a critical assessment of the evolution of taxation of income from capital in Europe during the past decade.The introduction of the single currency has paved the way for important changes in European financial markets. Taxation of income from capital is one of the most...
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This paper shows that globalization of securities markets exacerbates the volatility of capital flows by strengthening incentives for herding behavior. This is a prediction of a mean-variance portfolio optimization model with imperfect information, in which investors acquire country-specific...
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Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) funds have been shown to underperform, primarily due to restricting their investments to a subset of the universe of investable assets. Rapid growth of SRI funds implies that there is a growing segment within the investment community who are willing to...
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In spite of tall claims that Hedge Funds have been demystified, the fact remains a big segment of the investment community is not aware of the risk return permutations that this asset class has to offer. Hedge fund is not a new terminology for those tracking Indian Capital market at least for...
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Maximization of wealth of his owners is the basic financial aim in management of enterprise. Short-term financial liquidity management contributes to realization this aim. Article presents financial liquidity definitions, relations among them and its influence on enterprise's owner wealth
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I compare the timing of information acquisition among institutional investors and sell-side analysts, and I show that hedge fund trades predict the direction of subsequent analyst ratings change reports while other investors' trades do not. In addition, hedge funds reverse trades after analyst...
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Assuming the time series of random returns to be jointly elliptical, we derive a relationship between its conditional variance and the probability density function of the conditioning set. In the case that such a relationship is linear in a quadratic form for of the conditioning variables, we...
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The design of financial trading systems (FTSs) is a subject of high interest both for the academic environment and for the professional one due to the promises by machine learning methodologies. In this paper we consider the Reinforcement Learning-based policy evaluation approach known as...
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