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Showing 1 to 20 of 310 for “"HG Finance"”.
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Relationship between the national universities commission resource allocation parameters used in allocating funds to teaching and learning and research and development and the outcomes of federal universities in Nigeria
The National Universities Commission Resource Allocation Parameters were developed by the National Universities Commission (NUC), for the allocation of funds to all the federal universities in Nigeria. However, the outcomes of the universities in their core tasks of teaching and research have left …
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Perceived turnover intention model of academic in selected private universities in Malaysia
Quality of the academics is one of the most important components in higher education’s quality assurance. Turnover among academic, however, could undermine the efficiency, productivity and to a certain extent, threaten the institution’s long-term survival. Preliminary interviews with human resource …
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The effect of peer firms determining firm capital structure: evidence from manufacturing in Malaysia
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of peer firms’ financial policies (capital structure) on target firm financing behaviour (capital structure), and to empirically test whether non-linear relationship of profitability with capital structure and growth opportunities exists. In …
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An Investigation into the Suitability of International Financial Reporting Standards for Small and Medium-sized Entities (IFRS for SMEs) in Jordan
The Full IFRS caters to the needs of shareholding corporations and their investors, which also led to incurring high cost especially for SMEs due to the requirements of financial reporting constructed for public companies as it is very complex and requires a high amount of disclosure (Fearnley and …
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Factors Affecting Internet Corporate Reporting (ICR) Adoption and Practices in Jordan
Corporate websites open wide avenues for companies to disseminate financial and non-financial information to target audiences in a fast, efficient and widely accessible manner. While website communication became a standard means for companies in developed countries, its utilisation, however, by …
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An examination of commodity derivative markets: efficiency, volatility and diversification benefits
This thesis comprises three papers which all examine commodity derivative markets and have a particular focus on commodity futures markets. The first paper examines market efficiency in metal, agricultural, financial and energy futures markets across different maturities. In the long-run, we found …
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Market Microstructure for a Portfolio of Dividend Paying Firms around Ex-Dividend Days
This thesis contributes to the existing literature on market microstructure by presenting three essays on the market microstructure around ex-dividend days. The first essay studies the market microstructure “footprints” associated with trading and tax-arbitrage activity around ex-dividend day using …
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Essays in international finance
… to the extant research on international finance by presenting a collection of three separate essays. The first essay tests the validity of long-run Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) in two panels of real exchange rates for 13 OECD countries (1989:07-2012:11, 1989:07-2006:12). Three panel unit …
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Public News in The Exchange Rate Market
In this thesis, we tackle the question of how newly available public information is absorbed in the FX market. The existing literature uses a standardized news transformation on macroeconomic data before using it in time-series models, due to a link between the transformation and the rational …
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Corporate dividend decisions
The main aims and objectives of my thesis are to test the various conflicting hypotheses developed in the previous literature to explain firms’ dividend policy, focusing specifically on IPOs and cross-country analysis. In particular, I explore the theoretical links in the context of the important …
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An examination of the factors influencing mutual fund performance
This study looks at some factors influencing mutual fund performance. Fund management location, family status and asset allocation and timing ability are examined. Using monthly returns on 4545 funds from Morningstar from January 1970 to June 2010, the study examines whether location influences the …
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Theoretical essays on bank risk-taking and financial stability
This thesis proposes theoretical models to study bank risk-taking and financial stability. Three issues are explored: (1) the moral-hazard incentive for securitisation, (2) the socially optimal banking structure for the economy, and (3) the relationship between bank competition and financial …
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Contributions to solvency risk measurement
The thesis focuses on risk measures used to calculate solvency capital requirements. It consists of three independent papers. The first paper (Chapter 2) investigates time-consistency, the relation that should hold across risk measurements of the same financial position at different time points. …
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Higher moment models for risk and portfolio management
This thesis considers specific topics related to the dynamic modelling and management of risk, with a particular emphasis on the generation of asymmetric and fat tailed behavior observed in practise. Specifically, extensions to the dynamics of the popular GARCH model, to capture time variation in …
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Intuition and emotion: examining two non-rational approaches in complex decision making
This thesis was designed to examine two non-rational decision approaches in individual and team decision making. In Chapter 2 (Paper 1), a normative theory about how people should use intuition in making complex decisions is proposed. I draw from extant literature to derive why allowing intuition …
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Multivariate credibility with application to cross-selling financial services products
In this thesis, methods that are capable of improving the revenue and profitability of a financial services company are presented. Of particular interest is the use of customer specific information for pricing insurance products and segmenting a customer population based on the expected …
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Essays on bank capital and balance sheet adjustment in the UK and US, and implications for regulatory policy
The financial crisis prompted widespread interest in developing a better understanding of how market and regulatory driven capital targets affect bank behaviour. Such considerations are important to assessing the effects of shocks to banks' capital ratios on their supply of financial intermediation …
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Price and liquidity discovery, jumps and co-jumps using high frequency data from the foreign exchange markets
The thesis provides a novel contribution to the literature of microstructural theory and discovery models. The main contributions are twofolds. First, we move from price to liquidity discovery and explicitly study the dynamic behavior of a direct measure of liquidity observed from the foreign …
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The risk-related behaviour of financial intermediaries
The following thesis contains four empirical chapters focusing on the contagion, interest rate, foreign exchange rate, and investment risk exposures of financial institutions, respectively. Chapter 1 provides an overarching view of the four empirical chapters and the main objective of the thesis. …
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