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, their discount factors and attitudes towards risk) on the volatility equity prices. We briefly summarize some of the …
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To obtain the maximum benefits from diversification, financial theory suggests that investors should invest … internationally because of the larger potential for risk reduction stemming, from the lower correlation existing between assets of …
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the fund company to use its judgment to maximize risk-adjusted fund returns. A fund company, however, in its desire to …
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buying recent winners and shorting recent losers appears profitable in the post 1945 era. In contrast, the risk exposure of … such a strategy has not been well understood; the strategy's unconditional average risk exposure can be deceptive. The … accordance with the performance of the common risk factors during the periods in which stocks were ranked to determine their …
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Profit maximization is not a well defined objective when markets are incomplete. Several criteria of investment choice have therefore been put forward in the literature, some of which crucially hinge upon aggregation of shareholders' preferences, as is the case with the criteria proposed by...
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We believe that group-lending institutions have incentives to include members outside the target-group of poor households. This implies a methodological problem that is rarely taken into account in empirical studies. We apply a general household survey, and find some evidence of non-poor...
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The paper presents the basics of a new and flexible approach to statistically modelling the activities of multi-sectoral economies (Tran Van Hoa, 1992) and applies it to study investment in five major East Asian countries (ie, China, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia and Thailand) during the period...
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In two earlier studies, we established that, to some extent, liberalization of the financial system does matter in Nigeria and that operators of the banking system, as suppliers of credit, believe in the efficacy of the liberalization effort in stimulating deposit and promoting competition...
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