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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Country-specific factors"”.
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Accounting Quality under IFRS: The Effect of Country-Specific Factors
… The present thesis seeks to investigate how country-specific factors shape accounting quality under IFRS across 23 countries between 2007 and 2010, the global financial crisis period. This is the first study to examine the effect of country-specific factors, using recent indicators, on both …
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Determinants of foreign direct investment in commercial real estate and hotel sectors for selected MENA countries
… to allow and facilitate real estate and tourism (specifically hotel) foreign direct investment (FDI). From a political perspective, countries used to view real estate as one of the "crown jewels" of an economy (Lynn, 2007). No longer does this view hold consistently across countries as countries …
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Three Essays on Bank Capital Structure, Performance, and Financial Inclusion
… accessibility and usage dimensions. Examining country-specific factors that explain differences in the level of financial inclusion, we find that higher banking system competition, financial freedom, and capital stringency are associated with higher financial inclusion. Additionally, the level …
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Critical Factors in the Adoption and Diffusion of E-Government Initiatives in Oman
… systems regardless of how advanced or modest a country is in terms of ICT infrastructure and deployment. This research has endeavored to investigate the impediments associated with the development and diffusion of e-government with a concentration on non-technical and country-specific factors. …
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’Active ageing’ and health: an exploration of longitudinal data for four European countries
… all countries under study. This suggested that country-specific factors, such as retirement policies, might play an important role in determining older people’s level of engagement in paid work. Cross-sectional results also suggested that work and formal engagement were associated with good …
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Impact of oil prices on stock market performance
… heterogeneous and complex as several sector or country-specific factors drive the relationship. Specifically, the findings suggest that the response of the stock market sectors to oil price shocks differs substantially, depending on their degree of oil dependence and multiple transmission …
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Cointegration tests with smooth breaks and co-movements of international reserves
… effects on the variations of IR holding in each country. To begin with, we evaluate how pervasive global co-movements of international reserves are. For this, we estimate the global, regional and country-specific factors of international reserves by using a dynamic factor model with time-varying …
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Country factors and the dynamic modeling of capital structure: an empirical study of latin american firms
Desenvolvemos modelos de ajuste parcial e de duration para testar a relevância de fatores específicos de países na determinação da estrutura de capital de empresas listadas nas bolsas de valores brasileira, chilena e mexicana. Utilizamos dados em painel, em um período que se estende do quarto …
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The impact of political connection on firm performance: empirical evidence from Vietnamese listed companies in manufacturing sector.
… certain features of firm-, industry- and country-specific factors has been accentuated in this research area. Moreover, such implications might be contingent upon varying institutional environments. This results in a research call for fuller examination of considering institutional factors …
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Public debt in sub-Saharan African countries: determinants and economic effects
… substantially across countries due to unique country-specific factors which may not be accounted for in a panel data framework. The study therefore aims to compare country-specific evidence with the evidence obtained from the studies that employ panel data on SSA countries. It focuses on the …