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Stock Exchanges in the Middle East: Risky Business or Smart Investing?
Haddad, Jed A. - 2011
logical that investment opportunities present themselves. Although this is a logical conclusion, much research on the stock … exchange of these countries is somewhat limited. These stock exchanges have the potential to give any investor the …, Jordanian, and Kuwaiti stock exchanges will allow them to rival the competitiveness of stock exchanges that are more well known. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450247
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Testing twin deficits hypothesis using VARs and variance decomposition
Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi; Lau, Evan; Khalid, Ahmed M. - 2006
This paper examines the twin deficits hypothesis in the ASEAN countries. The major findings of this paper are the following. (1) Long run relationships are detected between budget and current account deficits. (2) The Keynesian view fits well for Thailand since the causality runs from budget...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441797
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A test of purchasing power parity: Asia Pacific and Latin America
Ho, Catherine S. F.; Ariff, Mohamed - 2009
design, Theil’s Divisia index method, found that this relationship holds only in the long run, given the sticky price …
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Sticky prices and time to equilibrium: Evidence from Asia-Pacific trade-related economies
Ho, Catherine S. F.; Ariff, Mohamed - 2010
The theoretical relation between exchange rate and prices has been a difficult proposition to find supporting evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441759
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The role of non-parity fundamentals in exchange rate determination: Australia and the Asia Pacific region
Ariff, Mohamed; Ho, Catherine S. F. - 2008
This paper extends the literature by looking at the contribution of non-parity variables after extracting the impact of parity variables on exchange rates of Australia and the Asia Pacific countries. Exchange rates are examined using high- and low-frequency multi-country panel time series data...
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Motivations for US Foreign Direct Investment
Buoninfante, Christina - 2009
The purpose of this thesis is to determine US firms’ motivations for foreign direct investment and to explore to what extent US firms continue to invest into China and India. I first correlate the agricultural, industrial, and service sectors in the United States with those of China and India....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009463628
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The defensive expansion approach to multinational banking: Evidence to date
Williams, Barry - 2002
This paper integrates the defensive expansion hypothesis in multinational banking with the internalisation approach to the multinational enterprise. This framework is then used to structure a review of the literature to date regarding the proposition that multinational banks follow their clients...
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The market premium for the option to close: Evidence from Australian gold mining firms
Kelly, Simone - 2004
gold mining firms listed on the Australian Stock Exchange from 1987 to 1994 that are actively engaged in gold mining …, moneyness. This results show that market prices incorporate a premium that reflects the option to temporarily close operations …
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Are stock splits credible signals? Evidence from the Singapore market
Ariff, Mohamed; Khan, Wayalet A.; Baker, H. Kent - 2004
This paper studies the effects of stock splits on returns using daily data from the Singapore Stock Exchange over the … period 1983-2000. Specifically, it examines whether stock split announcements provide credible signals due to asymmetry of … information. We find that the market, on average, responds positively and significantly to announcements of stock splits. We then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441757
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Top 10 Audit Deficiencies
Beasley, Mark S.; Carcello, Joseph V.; Hermanson, Dana R. - 2001
The article focuses on financial statement fraud based on cases wherein the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sanctioned auditors for their association with fraudulent financial statements. All of the cases involved public companies, most of which engaged ill fraudulent financial...
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