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The Effect of Investor Relations on Income Objectives and MeetingExpectations
Kirk, Marcus - 2009
AbstractThe Effect of Investor Relations on Income Objectives andMeeting ExpectationsBy: Marcus KirkOver a quarter of publicly listed firms employ National InvestorRelationsInstitute (NIRI) members. Yet we know little about the impact ofinvestor relations (IR)for these firms. I examine the role...
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Do managers alter the tone of their earnings announcements around stock option grants and exercises?
Tama-Sweet, Isho - 2009
Committee in charge: Steven Matsunaga, Chairperson, Accounting;Angela Davis, Member, Accounting;David Guenther, Member …, Accounting;Jeremy Piger, Outside Member, Economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447395
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ESSAYS ON NEWS AND ASSET PRICES
Sinha, Nitish Ranjan - 2010
The first essay examines news and the cross section of returns. Using a sentiment score provided by Thomson Reuters to measure the tone of news articles, this paper examines monthly portfolio returns constructed from information about past news articles. The sentiment score is obtained from the...
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Identification and evaluation of the managerial benefits derived by small businesses as a result of complying with the Australian tax system
Lignier, Philip Andre, Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre, … - 2008
Sandford together with the findings of empirical research on accounting in small businesses, provide the framework for the … bookkeeping requirements imposed by tax compliance compel small businesses to upgrade their accounting systems, typically in the … form of computerisation. The increased sophistication of the accounting system following this upgrade allows small …
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Furthering the role of corporate finance in economic growth
Kamiryo, Hideyuki - 2004
My research question is: Why do countries with similar rates of saving differ in economic growth? My thesis addresses this question by formulating an endogenous growth model using the Cobb-Douglas production function. My model disaggregates the rate of saving into the retention ratio and the...
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Development and structuring of commercial mortgage-backed securities in Australia
Chikolwa, Bwembya - 2008
According to the Reserve Bank of Australia (2006) the increased supply of Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS), with a range of subordination, has broadened the investor base in real estate debt markets and reduced the commercial property sector’s dependence on bank financing The CMBS...
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A Bayesian approach to financial model calibration, uncertainty measures and optimal hedging
Gupta, Alok; Reisinger, Christoph - 2010
update this prior, using Bayes law, and give a posterior probability density for the unknown model parameter. Resulting Bayes …
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Essays on the financial governance of firms
Wilson, Linus; Roberts, Kevin W. S. - 2007
Four essays, or chapters, model the capital structure, governance, and investment decisions as part of a sequential game. Each chapter is separate in its context, assumptions, and conclusions. The titles of the chapters are below.Abstracts of each essay or chapter can be found at the beginning...
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Estimating the term structure with a semi-parametric Bayesian population model: An application to corporate bonds
Cruz Marcelo, Alejandro - 2010
The term structure of interest rates is used to price defaultable bonds and credit derivatives, as well as to infer the quality of bonds for risk management purposes. We introduce a new framework for estimating the term structure of interest rates for corporate bonds. The proposed model jointly...
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Essays in financial risk management
Ergen, Ibrahim - 2010
In Chapter 1, the usefulness of Extreme Value Theory (EVT) methods, GARCH models, and skewed distributions in market risk measurement is shown by predicting and backtesting the one-day-ahead VaR for emerging stock markets and the S&P 500 index. It has been found that the conventional risk...
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