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In line with the Adaptive Market Hypothesis (AMH), the objective of this study is to investigate how the day-of-the-week (DOW) effect behaves under different bull and bear market conditions in African stock markets, and to examine the likelihood of being in a bull or bear regime for each market....
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In this paper we study the presence of calendar anomalies in the main Latin- American stock markets, for the 1993 to 2007 period. The literature has shown that the detection of those effects may depend on error distribution assumptions (Baker et al., 2008), and that their existence could be due...
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explanation of income disparities in Japan, 2) the effect of Market access is robust to the inclusion of control variables …
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The structural transition to a service economy has clearly contributed to decreasing direct (or territorial) greenhouse gas emissions. Nevertheless, the role of this structural transition on direct greenhouse gas emissions is not well understood quantitatively. This study applied the additive...
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This study aims to estimate electricity demand functions in Japan's industrial and commercial sectors. We adopt data … from the Energy Consumption Statistics by Prefecture by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan, to delineate …
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The aim of this research is to introduce a multiregional social accounting matrix (SAM) in Japan evaluating the … differential impact flows of local government expenditures to regional incomes between a remote area and the rest of Japan (ROJ …
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This paper provides a brief explanation of the Japanese public credit guarantee system and analyzes what role it played during the global financial crisis. The author conducted a questionnaire survey of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Aichi Prefecture, the prefecture most seriously...
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In Japan, a formula-based transfer system resulted in local benefits from municipal mergers differing substantially …
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Der japanische Bankensektor befindet sich seit mehr als zehn Jahren in einer tief greifenden Krise; originäre Geschäftsbankfunktionen sind gestört. Zwar kommt jetzt die Bankenreform institutionell voran. Wichtige Performance-Indikatoren weisen jedoch auf die weiterhin schwierige Lage des...
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Die Arbeitskosten eines Landes dienen oft als Erklärung für seine Wettbewerbsstärke, die Standortattraktivität und die Arbeitsmarktlage. Daher stoßen internationale Arbeitskostenvergleiche auf großes öffentliches Interesse. Es existiert jedoch keine eindeutige Definition des Begriffs...
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