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This paper provides a policy-oriented summary of the econometric study commissioned by the European Court of Auditors, in the context of its audit of EU-funded loan guarantee instruments.2 The study assesses the real performance effects of EU-guaranteed loans to SMEs disbursed in France during...
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This paper explores the impact of risky asset holdings by U.S. nonfinancial firms. From the early 1990s to 2017, the share of risky securities surged from 28% to over 40% of firms' financial assets. Using a business-cycle heterogeneous firms model, I show that declining real interest rates since...
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This study assesses the extent to which cash holding affects the financial performance of quoted insurance firms in … insurance companies under study. Pearson coefficient of correlation and multiple regression were applied for the test of the … others that insurance companies should adequately manage how they re-invest their resource so as to prevent any form of …
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This study assesses the extent at which cash holding affects financial performance of quoted insurance firms in Nigeria … were adopted and the data for the study were obtained from fact books, annual reports and account of the quoted insurance … that insurance companies should adequately mange how they re-invest their resource so as to prevent any form of …
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Private equity buyouts have become a common element in the industrial development process. I survey the literature on the real economic effect of buyouts: employment, wages, productivity, and long-run investments. Employment tend to marginally fall after a buyout in most countries studied, with...
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The drivers of financial success of the insurance industry are of interest to several players in any economy including …; most of which look at narrow elements that determine insurance companies’ performance. This article sought to explore the … components contributing to the financial performance of insurance firms. We employed a sample consisting of 37 general insurers …
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The paper evaluates the performance of the Takaful and insurance companies in Malaysia. It examines the impact of … Malaysian Takaful and insurance companies with 255 firm observations over the period from 2011 to 2016. The study's findings … show that Takaful and insurance companies perform at par in terms of their premiums. However, Takaful has better investment …
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