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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Investment behaviour"”.
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Three essays in behavioural finance: An examination into non- Bayesian Investment behaviour
Behavioural Finance relaxes the neoclassical assumption that investors consistently apply Bayes Rule when updating their expectations, and identifies the behavioural attributes that affect asset prices. This thesis extends this literature by examining deviations from the Bayesian model that arise …
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The foreign direct investment behaviour of Chinese firms : does the 'new institutional theory' approach offer explanatory power?
… become a major source country for foreign direct investment. The objectives of this research are to identify the determinants of this phenomenon, to identify the international investment strategies pursued by Chinese MNEs, and to evaluate the effect of the domestic and international institutional …
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Investment behaviour analysis of oil and gas exploration and production: evidence from the United Kingdom continental shelf.
… UKCS (MERUK), lack an assessment of historical investment strategies of E&P firms in response to the decline that will support the changes in business and regulatory efficiency recommended in the review. Also, the clamour for NetZero greenhouse gas emissions in the UK by 2050 which led to the …
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THREE ESSAYS ON FIRST NATIONS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
… essay investigates First Nation Governments’ investment in band-owned businesses and collaboration in business development opportunities between First Nations communities. The first essay explores the rate of economic leakage and the economic impacts of First Nation spending. Using data …
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Assessing investment rationale : the case of Anglo American Corporation in Latin America
This thesis assesses the investment decisions and investment behaviour of the Anglo American Corporation in Latin America and Africa. It focuses on the question of ‘why’ Anglo chose to invest in Latin America and how it went about choosing one country over another. It is an historical, ideographic …
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Investment, growth and government policy in an economy characterised by oligopolistic and competitive sectors
… concern (1) the duality of pricing, savings and investment behaviour between competitive and oligopolistic sectors and (2) the implications of the cyclical financial surplus that emerges in the oligopolistic sector during the upturn. The cycle is explained as the outcome of government reaction to …
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Firm-specific determinants of FDI: an investigation of the Triad companies
… thesis presents an examination of foreign direct investment behaviour of the Triad countries’ firms from the firm-specific factors point of view using a large panel data covering 1985-2011. Adopting a firm-specific approach to FDI behaviour, it provides a two-stage analyses to find out (1) the …
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Economic growth and financial development: a legal explanation
… through which the legal system affects firm investment behaviour. The study suggests that a well-functioning legal system will benefit financial development; consequently access to external finance in the financial sector will be easier, thus firms are less sensitive to internal financing. …
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Legal regulations of inward investment in the UK and China
Inward investment is vital to the economic life of both the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China. By injecting capital from overseas, it generates exports, creates jobs, and brings advanced technology and new management styles. Legal regulations and government policies in this regard …
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CRM in the Banking Industry in Bahrain
… up freezing their cash reserves and avoiding investment. The research examined the extant literature, in particular, six fields of study: 1) relationship marketing 2); customer relationship management (CRM); 3) CRM activities; 4) CRM challenges; 5) HNWIs’ investment behaviours; 6) and HNWIs’ …
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The economics of the United Kingdom pension funds.
… This is necessary to gain the insight into the behaviour of the pension funds and their operational environment that enables a model of their actual behaviour to be accurately constructed. The earlier chapters—Chapters One to Four—examine the institutional context of British pension fund …
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Regulatory risk constraints and investment decisions: unintended consequences for the financial system.
… framework is more accurate in forecasting investment behaviour in risky assets of the Italian banks than the ordinary mean-variance framework. In the third essay, I investigate the role of uncertainty, whose relevance has been deeply investigated by several papers. By adding uncertainty to …
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Identifying Zimbabwean institutional investor's intentions to invest in ipps: evidence from the theory of planned behaviour
… ideally suited to do so. The theory of planned behaviour was used as a theoretical framework to dissect factors that influence the intention to invest in IPPs and identify the determinants of the actual behaviour. Structural equation modelling was employed to analyse attitudes, subjective norms, …
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The effects of financialization on investment in Europe
… of financialization on non-financial firms’ investment in Western European countries. First, we start by clarifying the nature of ‘rent’ in advanced capitalist economies, thus reviewing the key contributions within the history of economic thoughts about the relationships between different …
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Foreign direct investment from China: implications for British business partners
… economies have been reshaping the global investment landscape since the early 2000s. In particular, companies from China have become increasingly significant outward investors. In fact China is currently the third largest outward investor in the world (UNCTAD 2013). As a relatively new …
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L2 Investment in African languages: a multiple case study of successful white learners of African languages in post-apartheid South Africa
… among others. As an overall framing device, an investment metaphor was reconceptualised for the purposes of this study as the ‘L2 Investment’ framework – inspired, but divergent, from Norton’s (1995) construct of investment and later investment model (with Darvin, 2015). Six core cases were …
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Rethinking the Cape Town Property Developer: Understanding the local developer's perspective of the City of Cape Town Municipality and comparing this perspective to local Transit-Orientated Development policy constructs of the developer
… was undertaken to understand institutional and behavioural economic frameworks, how each framework relates to the property market, and how to use the frameworks to assist in defining a developer. Further research was conducted to consider the property development process from the perspective of …
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The impact of the global financial crisis on the cash flow sensitivity of investment: some evidence from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange listed non-financial firms
The relationship between a firm’s investment behaviour, financial constraints and the level of internally generated cash flows has been a subject of extensive discussion in finance literature. The discussion revolves around the effectiveness of investment cash flow sensitivity (ICFS) as a measure …
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Is there a case for an augmented Tobin’s Q model of R&D investment? Investigating the role of market structure, knowledge spillovers and corporate governance quality
The determinants of R&D investment at firm-level have been a topic of interest for economists for a long time. However, our knowledge of the firm’s R&D investment behaviour remains somewhat fragmented. In this thesis, I postulate the idea of an augmented Tobin’s Q model, in which several different …