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Does portfolio emulation outperform its target funds?

Chen, Zhe; Foster, F Douglas; Gallagher, David R; Lee, … - In: Australian Journal of Management 38 (2013) 2, pp. 401-427

to support emulation from a costâ€“benefit perspective before management fees and taxes. …

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Default probabilities, CDS premiums and downgrades : A probit-MIDAS analysis

Freitag L. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2014

This paper examines the relationship between sovereign credit default swaps CDS and sovereign rating changes of European countries. To this aim, a new estimator is introduced which merges mixed data sampling MIDAS with probit regression. Simulations show that the estimator has good properties in...

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Persistence and extinction of brokerage roles in clusters: the role of status, former experiences and extra-cluster relationships

Belso-Martínez, José-Antonio; Expósito-Langa, Manuel - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2015

Shifting away from traditional approaches orientated towards the analysis of the benefits associated with brokerage … collected in a Spanish industrial cluster, the evolution of five different brokerage profiles is analysed in depth. Particularly … interactions may generate changes in the different brokerage roles over a period of time. Findings endorse our expectations mainly …

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Novelty Conduits and Forms of Network Ties: To Bond or to Bridge?

Santoni, Simone; Ferri, Paolo; Lusiani, Maria - Dipartimento di Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2013

There is ample, cross-disciplinary evidence suggesting that network ties are key to promoting novelty. However, the network paradigm in organization and management theory offers conflicting views on what types of inter organizational ties are most valuable for organizations that are pursuing...

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Procyclicality and path dependence of sovereign credit ratings: The example of Europe

Freitag L. - Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), … - 2014

This paper investigates empirically the behavior of Credit Rating Agencies CRAs when assessingsovereign solvency for European countries. Using Probit regressions I find that even after controllingfor macroeconomic factors, CRAs take the business cycle into account. Also, there is a clear case...

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How broker organizations can facilitate public–private partnerships for development

Stadtler, Lea; Probst, Gilbert - In: European Management Journal 30 (2012) 1, pp. 32-46

Broker organizations increasingly facilitate the partnering process of public–private partnerships (PPPs) for development. In this paper, we argue that their function goes beyond simply match-making between partners and develop a theoretical framework for the broker organizations’ roles...

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Communities, knowledge creation, and information diffusion

Lambiotte, R.; Panzarasa, P. - In: Journal of Informetrics 3 (2009) 3, pp. 180-190

relative benefits of social cohesion and brokerage, we discuss the conditions that facilitate collaborations among scientists …

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Do Buyer Incentives Work for Houses during a Real Estate Downturn?

Soyeh, Kenneth; Wiley, Jonathan; Johnson, Ken - In: The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 48 (2014) 2, pp. 380-396

The impact of incentives on marketing duration is examined for residential real estate using data from the Multiple Listing Service during a real estate downturn. The focus is on incentives offered directly by sellers to potential homebuyers. The evidence suggests that incentives are not...

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Insuring the uninsurable: brokers and incomplete insurance contracts

Doherty, Neil A.; Muermann, Alexander - Center for Financial Studies - 2005

How do markets spread risk when events are unknown or unknowable and where not anticipated in an insurance contract? While the policyholder can hold up the insurer for extra contractual payments, the continuing gains from trade on a single contract are often too small to yield useful coverage....

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Business, Brokers and Borders: The Structure of West African Trade Networks

Walther, Olivier - Institut for Grænseregionsforskning, Syddansk Universitet - 2014

long-distance trade. We also study the trade-offs faced by traders between embeddedness and brokerage and find that long …

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