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This paper proposes the way of setting the dynamic impawn rate by dividing the impawn periods into different risk windows. In an efficient financial market, the return is hypothetically independent, while in a pledged inventory market where spot transactions predominate, the return is...
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Trend following strategies have the reputation of being the holy grail of investment. This paper investigates the trend following strategy both from a theoretical and empirical perspective. This article also discusses conditional expected return and the drawdown with Value at Risk (VaR). VaR...
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With over 300 stores in 40 countries, IKEA is a major international presence in retail housewares and furnishings. IKEA publishes country-specific catalogs with local-currency prices guaranteed to hold for 1 year. This paper explores a new dataset of IKEA products and catalog prices covering six...
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Using data from the 1977 Consumer Credit Survey and from the 1989 Survey of Consumer Finances, we investigate changes in the percentage of households with deposit accounts. We find that, among households earning $84,000 or less in 1991 prices, the percentage of households with deposit accounts...
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This paper tests whether state school finance reform alters neighborhood income homogeneity. One implication of the … jurisdictions to set local tax and expenditure levels. The property tax revolt and the school finance equalization reform of the … that school finance has a significant effect on school district income sorting, especially among low income communities. …
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One of the basic components of the management of a programme of reform is the Stakeholder Analysis. It allows understanding and assessing the programme environment and provides to the management information defining the negociation position in the programme implementation. The paper undertakes a...
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that are so typical of market driven systems. [The 'Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) Distinguished Speaker Series …
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We investigate the long-standing puzzle on the underpricings of convertible bonds. We hypothesize that the observed underpricing is induced by the possibility that a convertible bond might renegotiate on some of its covenants, e.g., an imbedded put option in financial difficulties. Consistent...
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Banking has been a fertile area for management science applications, as is evident from the review provided in this paper. The relevant management science models are discussed in terms of the areas of bank management for which they were intended. Under dynamic balance sheet management (i.e.,...
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