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11.432J / 15.427J Real Estate Finance & Investments II: Macro-Level Analysis & Advanced Topics, Spring 2003

Geltner, David; Mcgrath, William Tod - 2003

presents some of the major concepts, principles, analytical methods and tools useful for making investment and finance … estate terminology presented in the earlier course if they are not already familiar with basic real estate finance and …

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Circumscribing China’s NPL "Puzzle"

Richter, Jonathan, University of Pennsylvania - 2008

The problem of the Chinese financial system with non performing loans is significant and murky. If China's non performing loan problem exists on a certain level of severity and is not trending toward a more manageable state, then China could be moving toward financial crisis. Empirical and...

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Essays in exotic derivative pricing and time series analysis

Ma, Suchun - 2005

(Journal of Banking and Finance, 1994) and the formula developed for pricing regular options in Black & Scholes (Journal of …

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Capital markets in Malaysia: Corporate finance, investment management, banking and corporate governance

Ariff, Mohamed; Shamsher, Mohamad; Taufiq, Hassan; … - 2008

-felt wish by teachers- even though they use textbooks with international focus- to teach Finance courses at tertiary … institutions with increasingly more and more local content in accounting, banking and finance subjects. The professionals, who make … markets as a ready source of peer-reviewed materials on Finance. …

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Institutional Investors and International Expansion in Restaurant Industry

Oak, Seonghee; Upneja, Arun - 2010

Although U.S. restaurant firms face high risks in diversifying their operations internationally, there are no previous studies that motivate international diversification. If international diversification is risky then why do restaurant firms go abroad? This study focuses on one potential...

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Is There a Case for Formal Inflation Targeting in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Heintz, James; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2010

This paper examines the question of whether inflation targeting monetary policy is an appropriate framework for sub-Saharan African countries. The paper presents an overview of inflation targeting, reviews the justification for the regime, and summarizes some major critiques. Monetary policy...

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Reading the Recent Monetary History of the United States, 1959-2007

Rubio-Ramirez, Juan F. - 2010

In this paper the authors report the results of the estimation of a rich dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model of the U.S. economy with both stochastic volatility and parameter drifting in the Taylor rule. They use the results of this estimation to examine the recent monetary...

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HMP 607 - Corporate Finance for Health Care Administrators, Fall 2008

Wheeler, Jack - 2008

finance and accounting necessary to manage health care organizations. The first course, HMP 608, covers financial accounting …. The second course, HMP 606, focuses on managerial accounting topics. This third course concentrates on corporate finance … topics. It aims to impart an understanding of how finance theory and practice can inform the decision-making of the health …

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Impact of Cross-listing on Local Stock Returns: Case of Russian ADRs

Smirnova, Elena - 2004

The paper examines the impact of American Depositary Receipt (ADR) listings on the return of the underlying Russian stocks. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, it looks at a new sample of ADRs issued by Russian companies. Second, the technique used to estimate the market model is...

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Insider Trading in Germany - Do Corporate Insiders Exploit Inside Information?

Dymke, Björn M.; Walter, Andreas - 2008

Our study focuses on the question whether corporate insiders in Germany exploit inside information whiletrading in their company’s stock. In contrast to prior international studies, which are not able to link insidertransactions to a formal definition of inside information, we relate insider...

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