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Showing 1 to 20 of 160 for “"country-specific"”.
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Does Country-Specific Globalization Impact Private Loan Contracts?
… study I investigate the impact that operating in specific foreign countries has on the bank loan contracts of multinational companies. While previous research has shown that increased firm globalization leads to a lower cost of bank debt, I find that this relationship is attenuated when firms …
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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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Tracking and trading commercial real estate through REIT-based pure-play portfolios : The European Case
… by constructing various demonstration sets of country and sector indices for the major European real estate markets. We used data for the three-year period 2010-2012. We find that the pure-play methodology yields reasonable results for the European-wide office, retail, residential, industrial …
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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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Investigating the Transfer of Service Culture through Internal Service Quality: A Case of Subsidiary Hotels in an Emerging Market like Nigeria
… markets transfer their service culture into a country with an emerging market like Nigeria. This study is motivated by the need to understand this process considering the unique features of these markets, and the expansion into countries with emerging markets by service firms located in …
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Financing Education: Improving Financial Transfer Mechanisms in Developing Countries
… of the study, mainly the lack of data for country-specific analysis and the potential difficulties in implementing these recommendations in the developing world, the study provides alternative solutions for the basic problems of inefficiency and inequity in schooling in developing …
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Intra-Industry Trade in Agricultural Products Between the United States, NAFTA and European Union Trading Partners
… provides an overview of trends and identifies country-specific determinants of intra-industry trade (IIT) between the United States (U.S.), the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) trading partners. We analyze the food and live animal industry at the Standard …
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Essays on institutional evolution and economic development: evidence from Nigeria
… most of sub-Saharan Africa; and the paucity of country specific studies - the majority of the empirical evidence have mainly focused on cross-country analysis. While extensions from cross-country analysis to country specific analysis is growing, empirical studies focused on sub-Saharan Africa …
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Quality service delivery in tertiary institutions in Ghana: a comparative study of public and private universities
… milieu, measurement of service quality using country-specific scales would speedily help identify problems, adequately improve service performance, better evaluate consumer satisfaction and enhance competitive advantage. However, there is a dearth of empirical investigations in Ghana’s …
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International Evidence on Product Market Competition and Firm Value
… positive and negative capital market effects. Specifically, research suggests competition reduces agency costs, but also reduces profitability. I examine the relation between product market competition and firm value in an international setting, focusing on how the relation varies with firm- …
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The effect of capital flows on the Kenyan economy
… in the economic development of the recipient country as they fund investments and promote growth. However, the size and composition of such inflows are determined on the basis of country specific requirements. The study investigates the impact of capital inflows on the economy of Kenya at a …
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Foreign direct investment in Uganda and Rwanda : a cross-country analysis
… written to delineate motivational factors and country-related opportunities and constraints of foreign investors who run a subsidiary in Rwanda or Uganda with the intention of discussing why foreign entities are investing in either of the two countries and what market entry modes and strategies …
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The market reaction to convertible bond issues and the determinants of bookrunner selection
… I regress the stock price reactions against firm-specific, issue-specific, market-specific, country-specific and investor protection-specific factors. I examine the determinants of domestic, regional and reputable bookrunner selection by regressing them on firm-specific, issue-specific and …
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French for refugee service providers
… for the integration of refugees into the host country. Specific attention is given to the South African situation. This study then provides a review of the literature outlining the most pertinent issues with regards to the domain of teaching French as a Foreign Language (TFFL) and French for …
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Financial Literacy across the Commonwealth of Independent States: a Comprehensive Cross-Country Analysis with a Focus on Gender Disparities
… my study aims to provide a comprehensive, country-specific analysis of how socio-economic characteristics correlate to financial outcomes, including financial literacy, knowledge, and well-being. My thesis replicates previous estimates by the OECD, highlighting limitations in their model …
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Changing institutional environment, Chinese company characteristics, and climate-change reporting
… of this thesis is to investigate how China’s country-specific context influences climate-change reporting by Chinese companies. Specifically, the thesis theoretically and empirically examines factors that influence climate-change reporting in China’s changing political and economic …
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A systematic analysis of the literature related to tax and corruption
… for study, predominantly written from multiple-country perspectives and others not country-specific. A vast majority of the journals were written from an Economics perspective and mainly employed the use of a simulation method of research.
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Economic Adjustment in Small Open Economies to External Shocks Arising from the Carry Trade, Trade Liberalisation and Remittance Flows
… the results show a different picture for country specific bilateral export growth. Almost all countries have had mixed fortunes in their bilateral export growth in adopting the two RTAs. Notwithstanding, post-2006, intra-regional exports have significantly benefitted from openness to trade …
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Economic Adjustment in Small Open Economies to External Shocks Arising from the Carry Trade, Trade Liberalisation and Remittance Flows
… the results show a different picture for country specific bilateral export growth. Almost all countries have had mixed fortunes in their bilateral export growth in adopting the two RTAs. Notwithstanding, post-2006, intra-regional exports have significantly benefitted from openness to trade …
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National Defense University: an integrated higher defense educational institute for democratization of civil-military relations in Nepal
… of and recommends establishing a unique, country-specific, and interagency integrated higher defense educational institute that promotes PME, civil defense education, and national security education programs under one national institutional umbrella like NDU.
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