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Fachhochschule des BFI Wien - 2005

Thema Basel II / Risikomanagement.Inzwischen wurden an der Fachhochschule bereits mehrere Forschungsprojektezum Themenkreis …

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Demographic trends in Sub-Saharan Africa

van de Walle, Etienne; Kekovole, John - 1986

The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...

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Modernization and the fertility transition, Egypt, 1975

Issa, Mahmoud S. Abdou - 1980

This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of … birth rate in Egypt, the long term fertility and mortality levels are discussed. The prospects of a fertility transition in … Egypt are assessed in terms of the current fertility level and pattern, the extent of deliberate fertility regulation, the …

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Price Transmission and Adjustment in the Ethiopian Coffee Market

Alemu, Zerihun Gudeta; Worako, Tadesse Kumma - 2009

This study focused on the interrelationships among producer, auction and world prices. In so doing, it criticized previous studies and extended technique developed by Hansen (1999) to handle inferential biases occurring as a result of specification errors. The following results were found:...

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Livestock Policy and Institutional Environment in Ethiopia: implications for fodder policy and adoption

Dessie, Messaye Taddele - 2009

African countries, the profile of livestock production in Ethiopia is well researched but there appears to be a detachment … literature reviews to evaluate Ethiopia’s livestock policy and how it could be improved to better serve the interests of poor … livestock keepers. In addition, it reviews the roles played by the Government of Ethiopia, national and international research …

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ESSAYS IN DYNAMIC CORPORATE FINANCE

Michaux, Michael - 2010

My dissertation aims at understanding the financing and investment decisions of firms. It contains two chapters.Chapter One studies the currency composition of debt for firms in emerging economies. Using a dataset of traded Mexican firms, I document two stylized facts about firms in the...

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Cash-Flow Risks, Financial Leverage and the Cross Section of Equity Returns

Maia, Marcelo V - 2010

What is the cross-sectional relationship between financial leverage and expected equity returns? How is the empirical relationship associated with firm's financial decisions? This dissertation investigates the potential explanations for the flatness relation between financial leverage and...

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The Levered Equity Risk Premium and Credit Spreads: A Unified Framework

Bhamra, Harjoat S.; Kuehn, Lars-Alexander; Strebulaev, … - 2009

We embed a structural model of credit risk inside a dynamic continuous-time consumption-based asset pricing model, which allows us to price equity and corporate debt in a unified framework. Our key economic assumptions are that the first and second moments of earnings and consumption growth...

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How capital structure adjusts dynamically during financial crises

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

The availability of a unique data set of financially distressed firms enabled this study to apply the dynamic capital structure adjustment model to a study of capital structure. In addition, the factors driving capital structure adjustment of financially distressed and of healthy firms were...

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Thin Capitalization Rules and Entrepreneurial Capital Structure Decisions

Maßbaum, Alexandra; Sureth, Caren - 2009

Tax planners often choose debt over equity financing. As this has led to increased corporate debt financing, many countries have introduced thin capitalization rules to secure their tax revenues. In a general capital structure model we analyze if thin capitalization rules affect dividend and...

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