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Financialization: What it is and Why it Matters

Palley, Thomas I. - 2007

risk of debt-deflation and prolonged recession. Financialization operates through three different conduits: changes in the …

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Cash Holdings of Hotel Firms: The Financial Constraints Perspective

Koh, Jung Hwan; Jang, SooCheong - 2011

’ financial management considering high usage of debt financing, litter effort has been made. Considering the extent of hotel … firms’ financial constraints, this study examines the precautionary motive of cash holding toward external financing (debt … study tests the relation of cash to debt and cash flow. Regardless of the extent of financial constraints, cash holding is …

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On Unaffordable Regional Infrastructure

McGovern, Mark - 2011

of probably the most pervasive means of finance, debt. Interest rate and other movements over decades can generate … significant variations in yields realised from investments. Conditions over recent decades appear to have made debt …

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Investment Styles, Fees, & Returns Among Individually Managed & Team Managed Mutual Funds

Cehanowicz, Kendal - 2011

effect on equity objective mutual funds, while having a positive impact on Debt and Equity combination funds. In addition …, our research concludes that team management has no significant effect on funds whose primary focus is debt. Across the …

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Privatization and performance: Evidence from telecommunications sector

Ariff, Mohamed; Cabanda, E; Sathye, M - 2008

There is a continuing debate on whether or not ownership changes accompanying privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) lead to performance improvements of such firms. Since profitability measures alone are possibly inappropriate for SOEs, we address this very significant current question...

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Total Factor Productivity and Monetary Policy: Evidence from Conditional Volatility

Apergis, Nicholas; Miller, Stephen M. - 2007

This paper empirically assesses whether monetary policy affects real economic activity through its affect on the aggregate supply side of the macroeconomy. Analysts typically argue that monetary policy either does not affect the real economy, the classical dichotomy, or only affects the real...

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Technical Compatibility and the Mode of Foreign Entry under Network Externalities

Klimenko, Mikhail; Saggi, Kamal - Georgia Institute of Technology; Southern Methodist … - 2004

This paper examines the preferences of a foreign firm and awelfare-maximizing host country government over two modes of foreigndirect investment (FDI): de novo entry by the foreign firm andacquisition of the domestic incumbent. Two crucial features of the modelare the presence of network...

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Recent trends in global FDI flows: Implications for the 21st century

Ndu, Chiaku Chukwuogor - 2003

This paper examines recent global trends of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows and the benefits derivable by the recipient countries. Some of the developed countries of the West, Japan and China are the greatest recipients of FDI flows. There has been dramatic increase in FDI flows to...

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The Effects of Export-Oriented, FDI-Friendly Policies on the Balance of Payments in a Developing Economy: A General Equilibrium Investigation

Razmi, Arslan - 2005

Many developing countries have adopted investor-friendly policies in recent years in order to attract export-oriented foreign direct investment (FDI). The effects of these policies on the external accounts have been largely ignored. This paper endogenizes FDI inflows in a structuralist general...

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The Gift that Keeps Giving: FDI Inflows in China

Chang, Joseph - 2011

This paper investigates the primacy of foreign direct investment inflows in liberalizing China’s economy and whether the long-term gains from economic openness will justify its inefficient energy uses and growing regional income disparities. By examining the history of FDI inflows in China, it...

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