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This research is an inter-temporal update of an empirical paper published by Essayyad et al., which is based on work of Loretan and Nardo et al. We continue to employ the same principal component technique, to construct an alternative US Dollar Index to gauge movements in currency markets. The...
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This paper investigates whether financial and socio-economic factors affect student performance of charter vs. public schools. Based on data from Texas, this research employs a multiple regression model to find whether charter school students outperform public school students. The policy...
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This paper aims to test whether investors in Saudi Arabia build their portfolios in a layer-by-layer form, considering them as a pyramid of assets as described by Shefrin and Statman (2000), and to investigate whether investors diversify their investments based on their aspirations. We use...
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This policy paper attempts to evaluate the viability of switching from the US dollar to the euro in international oil pricing. If materialised, the switch would not impact only OPEC nations but would also have ramifications for other oil exporting as well as importing nations. It would also have...
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Recognising the superior benefits of risk reduction associated with using portfolio of currencies relative to a single currency (US dollar), this paper shows that, ceteris paribus, a minimum-variance portfolio of currencies in the developed world has weights that strikingly mimic those...
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This article investigates concentration, efficiency, and profitability of commercial banks operating in Saudi Arabia, which is considering acceding to the World Trade Organisation whose rules on financial services liberalisation could pose a competitive challenge to local banks. We use...
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This paper applies the same methodology applied by Essayyad et al. (2009) to the construction of an alternative Euro dollar index. Specifically, it employs multivariate statistical tests to identify weights based on 12 economic and financial factors that are deemed theoretically more relevant in...
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This paper presents the case of an accounting degree programme of a small business school in the Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV). It provides simple complementary methodologies to evaluate the compatibility of an accounting degree programme relative to other accounting degree programmes in...
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The methodology of building up a dollar index capturing the appropriate weights of different currencies of trading partners has been challenged. This paper tries to suggest a methodological improvement. The authors employ multivariate statistical techniques to identify appropriate financial and...
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