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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Merrill Lynch"”.
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Calling spirits from the deep : competing for and through sophisticated customers
… position and firm capabilities" and asks why Merrill Lynch succeed in building a leading investment-banking practice while rival brokerage firm Paine Webber tried and failed. The two firms' experiences and previous research are used to specify a model of competition among professional services …
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Islamic finance: a low risk, value-adding alternative
… the Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index and the Merrill Lynch Global Bond Index were compared to the Dow Jones Sukuk Index. In respect of the global and South African equity and the global fixed income, a sample set of Shariah compliant funds were compared to the respective conventional indices. …
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Extraction of ontology and semantic web information from online business reports
… outlook. A Semantic Web was created from Merrill Lynch reports, 107,533 rows of data, and displays information regarding mergers, acquisitions, and business segment news between 2007 and 2009. User testing of CAINES resulted in recall of 85.91%, precision of 87.16%, and an F-measure of …
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Changing capital markets industry structures : the Internet challenge to incumbent leaders
… proprietary material was also provided by Merrill Lynch, Inc. The academic literature referenced herein focuses on the legacy of work in innovation in technology and includes most notably Porter's work on competitive advantage and industry analysis, particularly the famous "five forces"; …
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Essays on the US Public Equity and High Yield Bond Markets as a Source of Finance for Shipping Companies
… yields on the 10-year US Treasury bonds and the Merrill Lynch single-B index. This chapter contributes to the existing ship finance literature in the following ways: first, it attempts to model the changes of yield premia on shipping high yield bonds in the secondary market, which is of interest …
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Three Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing
The financial crisis of 2007-2008 led to extraordinary government intervention in firms and markets. The scope and depth of government action rivaled that of the Great Depression. Many traded markets experienced dramatic declines in liquidity leading to the existence of conditions normally assumed …