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An analysis of the potential effects of commercial banks' expansion into the securities business, focusing on gains …
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The legal environment for Securities Prospectuses in Germany has changed dramatically with the implementation of the … German Securities Prospectus Act (Wertpapierprospektgesetz - WpPG) and the Commission Regulation (EC) No. 809/2004 of 29 …
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The risk of bad debt losses evolves for companies which grant payment targets. Possible losses have to be covered by these companies equity and liquidity reserves. The question of how to quantify the level of risk of bad debt losses will be discussed in this paper. Input values of this risk are...
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The use of probability of default estimates to assess the risks of a credit portfolio should not ignore estimation uncertainty. The latter can be quantified by confidence intervals. But assumptions about dependencies of these intervals are inconsistent with assumptions of conventional credit...
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Implied probability density functions (PDFs) estimated from cross-sections of observed options prices are gaining … prices by no more than a half tick provide a lower bound on the confidence intervals of the summary statistics derived from …
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Poverty is currently wide spread in Georgia. This paper is dedicated to an analysis of the causes, the extent and the intensity of poverty in Georgia. With a strong focus on the period after Shevardnadze’s presidency, the paper shows how poverty has grown in the past 15 years. In spite of a...
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A defining stylized fact associated with exchange-rate-based (ERB) stabilization programs is that their initial phase is characterized by several years of expansion in private consumption and a gradual appreciation of the real exchange rate. In this paper, I argue that standard optimizing models...
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the discount rate function directly to bond prices. ; The tests demonstrate the dangers of in-sample goodness-of-fit as … detect misspecification of the underlying pricing equation relating the term structure to bond prices. These tests establish … the presence of unspecified, but nonetheless systematic, omitted factors in the prices of long maturity notes and bonds …
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research hospital in Australia. The findings indicate that the current utilisation of the cost inforamtion resides primarily at … improved productivity and competitiveness driven by the wave of recent public sector reforms in Australia, is significantly …
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reforms in Australia influenced a local city council authority to restructure its internal practices, which in turn caused …
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