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Funds of Hedge Funds (FHF) are perceived to be the premier choice of institutional investors for first-time allocations into the alternative investment asset class. While many papers cover the bright side of FHF investing, we in this paper empirically investigate the maximum drawdowns of FHF....
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Kwiatkowski et al. (1992) and Leybourne and McCabe (1994) may cause extreme size distortions, if the model under the null … hypothesis is highly persistent. The existence of such size distortions has not been recognized in the previous literature. We … the recent float. Size distortions of tests of the unit root null hypothesis may be overcome by the use of finite …
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insignifikant (positive) Marktrisikoprämie, eine signifikant negative Größenprämie (Size Premium), eine signifikant positive … four major results: First, we find an insignificant (positive) market risk premium, a significant negative size premium, a …
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political framework, insider effects, efficiency wages, collective bargaining and cyclical effects. However, the size of … between size and unemployment. Using data from 37 countries, 15 continents and trade areas as well as 496 federal states, we … explains regional and national unemployment using size and centralization. We will point out that centralization parabolas can …
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Firms undertake efforts to compete along multiple fronts. First, they integrate internally in order to prepare a cohesive organizational response and to ready the ground for external integration. They then seek to integrate with both customers and suppliers which can increase the breadth and...
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, which are on average much smaller than their North American brethren. For the entire size spectrum and across listing … factor(s) missing from conventional tests of asset pricing. The results suggest that a lack of liquidity, rather than size …
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A fundamental understanding of small businesses begins with an adequate definition of what constitutes a small business. Often the definition of a small business incorporates the definitions employed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) which, in part, uses the number of employees as the...
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model parameters with observations on managerial earnings and the size-distribution of plants in the United States, and then … use our framework to quantify the importance of (i) lower exogenous productivity differences, and (ii) the size … relative contribution of exogenous productivity versus size-dependent distortions for output and plant-size differences between …
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size-distribution of plants and macroeconomic aggregates. We then quantify the relative importance of exogenous … productivity differences, and the size-dependent distortions emphasized in the misallocation literature. Our findings indicate that …
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