This was the first paper to study exclusively the effects of Ramadan on the United Arab Emirates Stock market. In doing so, the study aims to establish such impacts with the intention of advising the investors on whether it would be profitable to invest during the holy month of Ramadan or no.The...

The methods that bankruptcy courts have traditionally used to adjudicate fraudulent transfer claims have at times led to inconsistent, unpredictable, and inadvertently biased outcomes. However, recent legal and financial innovations may aid bankruptcy courts in assessing fraudulent transfer...

Áttekintő tanulmányunk célja, hogy - a modern panelökonometria történetén és fejlődésén keresztül - bemutassa, milyen általános és módszertani következményekkel járhat a jelenleg zajló közgazdasági adatforradalom. Látni fogjuk, hogy a fejlődés valójában alulról...

Mathematical methods are only one moment in a layered process of theory generation in political economy, which starts from Schumpeterian vision, progresses to the identification of relevant abstractions, the development of mathematical and quantitative models, and the confrontation of theories...

In this paper the authors present the findings of their research on a vast database containing the relevant information on the scientific characteristics of the three cohorts of assistant professors recruited in Italy in the early 1980s, the 1990s and the first few years of the new millennium....

This essay is based on a presentation at the American Accounting Association Strategy Retreat in May 2011 on the assertion ‘‘Accounting research as of 2011 is stagnant and lacking in significant innovation that introduces fresh ideas and insights into our scholarly discipline.’’ It poses...

Econometric standard practice in model building and selection operates under the null hypothesis statistical testing (NHST) paradigm. We show why the information-theoretic (IT) paradigm is more appropriate for econometrics, and follow up with a survey of all papers published in the period 2000...

Since the beginning of the year 2012, foreign currencies exchange rates against the domestic Sudanese currency saw continuous rise. That happened even though there were universal fluctuations for them due to continuous financial crisis. The continuous appreciations of foreign currencies in Sudan...