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taxing laws regarding the ISO stocks, the ISOs have unique features differentiated from the regular stock call options. In … fact, a significant wealth can accrue to executives with the ISO stocks, when the firm’s stock becomes publicly traded …
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Land is an essential but limited natural resource. We employ the concept of stocks to analyse driving forces for land …. In this paper major driving forces for land-use conversion are identified and underlying stocks and persistent …. We further argue that due to persistent stocks and institutional structures land-use conversion from agricultural into …
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Repurchasing of shares by South African companies were legalised on 1 July 1999.This introduced an alternative to dividends for distributing cash to shareholders.Although dividends and share repurchases realise the same value in a perfect efficientmarket, the inefficiencies of...
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research report investigated whether evidence of volatility clustering exists on the FTSE/JSE Top 40 Index. The presence of volatility clustering has practical implications relating to market decisions as well as the accurate measurement and reliable forecasting of...
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This event study examines the effect that Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) announcements have on a companies' share price. The average mean return model is applied to study a sample of companies from the Financial Mail Top 200 Empowerment Companies list, 2007. The mean price...
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates whether any exploitable pauems exist in a sample of tenAfrican stock markets that could lead to abnonnal gains. Southern Africa isrepresented by Botswana, Namibia. Mauritius and Zimbabwe, East Africa by Kenya,West Africa by Ghana and the BRVM, and North...
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In recent times many theories have surfaced posing challenging threats to the Efficient Market Hypothesis. We are entering an exciting era of financial economics fueled by the urge to have a better understanding of the intricate workings of financial markets. Many studies are emerging that...
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this dissertation the association between inflation-adjusted data and the behaviour of share prices is investigated. The primary purpose of this investigation is to make a contribution to the body of knowledge regarding share price behaviour, and more specifically with...
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stocks create value for investors? Second, can the multifactor model of Gruber capture the cross-section of average fund …
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Comprising nearly one-third of the nation's gross domestic product from 1995 to 1999, the growth of the Information Technology industry took a backseat to dot.com mania. Its companies, however, were just as influential in creating the stock market bubble. Characterized by high technology, high...
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