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Accrual accounting and public sector reform : Northern Territory experience

Rkein, Ali - 2008

efficiency, effectiveness and accountability. In Australia, this commercial orientation has taken momentum with the introduction … regard, governments in Australia have introduced a commercial accounting system through the adoption of accrual … operating environment, this study aims to analyse its working in the Northern Territory of Australia where competition is very …

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Operational risk disclosures in financial services firms

Ford, Guy; Sundmacher, Maike; Finch, Nigel; Carlin, Tyrone - 2009

banking institutions. We find that the quantity and quality of operational risk disclosures vary significantly across …

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Agreement and accuracy in consensus forecasts of the UK commercial property market

McAllister, Patrick; Newell, Graeme; Matysiak, George A. - University of Reading; University of Western Sydney; … - 2008

Property forecasts are an integral part of the property investment process at the strategic, tactical and individual asset levels. This study investigates the nature, extent and patterns of disagreement and uncertainty in the forecasts of UK property investors and their advisors. In this paper,...

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The development and preliminary performance analysis of Islamic REITs in Malaysia

Newell, Graeme; Osmadi, Atasya - 2009

With the significant growth in Islamic financial products in recent years, the world?s first Islamic real estate investment trust (REIT) was established in Malaysia in August 2006, with these REIT portfolios needing to be Shariah compliant. This paper constructs three Malaysian REIT (M-REIT)...

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Relative energy price and firm-level investment in Europe

Ratti, Ronald A.; Seol, Youn; Yoon, Kyung Hwan - 2010

A dynamic model of investment is estimated with data on non-financial firms in 15 European countries across 25 industries over 1991-2006. A rise in real energy price reduces the degree of persistence in the investment adjustment cost function. Panel results suggest that in manufacturing a 1%...

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Economic capital, loan pricing and 'ratings arbitrage'

Sundmacher, Maike; Ellis, Craig - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2008

The role of economic capital has grown significantly in recent years. Although not a regulatory requirement, an increasing number of financial institutions use economic capital for such purposes as measuring and managing the performance of people, products, risk exposures, and to manage and...

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Intergrating governance and risk-preference in banking insitutions

Ford, Guy; Sundmacher, Maike; Daly, Kevin James; … - Macquarie University; University of Western Sydney; … - 2005

All banks must hold capital equal to the minimum regulatory requirement. However, in many cases the level of regulatory capital diverges from the actual (economic) capital held by banks. A bank's actual capital is typically linked to a target credit rating, which is in turn determined by the...

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Indonesia; 2006 Article IV Consultation and Fifth Post-Program Monitoring Discussions: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion;...

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006

Despite security risks and some major natural disasters, Indonesia has continued to make steady economic progress in recent years. Recent sound macroeconomic management has calmed inflation pressures, though financial markets remain volatile. In the short term, activity should regain momentum...

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Japan; Spillover Report for the 2011 Article IV Consultation and Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011

Japanâ€™s position is one of the largest and richest economies in the world. Tokyo as a financial marketplace is not a major intermediator of global capital flows. The current macroeconomic environment is conducive to spillovers being larger than captured by the empirical analysis. Apart...

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What insight do market participants gain from dividend increases?

Ellis, R. Barry - 2000

increased dividends constrict management's future behavior, abating the agency problem with shareholders. The signaling …

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