This paper examines the effect of state control and ownership structure on the leverage decision of firms listed in the Chinese stock market. Our results show that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have higher leverage ratios than non-SOEs, and SOEs in regions with a poorer institutional...

This paper presents a case based reasoning approachfor making profit in the foreign exchange (forex) marketwith controlled risk using k nearest neighbour (kNN) and improvingon the results with neural networks (NNs) and a combinationof both. Although many professionals have proven that...

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008.