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Inter-corporate Ownership and Diversification in the Canadian Economy 1976-1995

McNaughton, Rod B.; Green, Milford B. - 2006

Purpose – To test the hypothesis of increased specialisation during the 1980s in the aggregate pattern of intercorporate ownership in the Canadian economy.Design/methodology/approach – The network of ownership between enterprises and subsidiaries is characterised for the period 1976-1995...

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Competencies for managing change

Crawford, Lynn; Nahmias, Anat H. - 2010

Organisational changes are recognised as a specific project type that can benefit from the application of project management skills, tools and techniques. Associated with this trend is evidence of rivalry in the marketplace between Project Managers and Change Managers concerning who should be...

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Modellgestützte Risikoanalysen einer Biogasanlageninvestition als Grundlage einer ganzheitlichen Risikobetrachtung und des strategischen Risikomanagements

Christian Riessen - 2010

Um Rückschlüsse über eine sinnvolle Integration einer Biogasanlage in das strategische Gesamtkonzept eines landwirtschaftlichen Betriebes ziehen zu können, werden Interdependenzen der Investitionsinputs mittels Sensitivitätsanalyse bewertet. Darauf aufbauend werden die Investitionserfolge...

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Three Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing

Jacobs, Thomas A. - 2010

The financial crisis of 2007-2008 led to extraordinary government intervention in firms and markets. The scope and depth of government action rivaled that of the Great Depression. Many traded markets experienced dramatic declines in liquidity leading to the existence of conditions normally...

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Simulation-based Valuation and Counterparty Exposure Estimation of American Options

Kan, Kin Hung - 2010

Valuing American options is a central problem in option pricing since the early-exercise feature is very common among financial or insurance derivatives products. For high-dimensional American options, Monte Carlo simulation is generally regarded as the only viable approach to price them, and...

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Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Indonesian Firm Efficiency: A Note

Prabowo, Handono E. T.; Cabanda, Emilyn - 2011

This research attempts to model performance measurement for the firms listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) using the stochastic frontier approach. There are 121 firms analyzed over the period of 2000-05 with 726 pooled observations. We also test whether firm’s age, size, market share,...

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Early Versus Late Effort in Dynamic Agencies with Unverifiable Information

Schöndube, Jens Robert - 2008

In this paper we analyze a dynamic agency problem where contracting parties do not know the agent's future productivity at the beginning of the relationship. We consider a two-period model where both the agent and the principal observe the agent's second-period productivity at the end of the...

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Effects of Ownership on Hospital Efficiency in Germany

Tiemann, Oliver; Schreyögg, Jonas - 2009

The objective of our study was to evaluate the efficiency of public, private for-profit, and private non-profit hospitals in Germany. First, bootstrapped data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to evaluate the efficiency of a panel (n = 1,046) of public, private for-profit, and private...

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Investment Styles, Fees, & Returns Among Individually Managed & Team Managed Mutual Funds

Cehanowicz, Kendal - 2011

determine investment returns. Studies have shown that team managed mutual funds exhibit similar risk adjusted performance to … study provides an examination of team managed and individually managed mutual funds with given investment styles on the … basis of fees and overall returns. This study finds empirical evidence that team management has a significant negative …

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