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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"developed markets"”.
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The research and design of a low cost, all terrain, mechanically advantageous wheelchair for developed markets
… mechanically advantageous wheelchair design for developed markets such as the United States.
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Corporate Social and Environmental Disclosure in Emerging Securities Markets: China as a Case Study
… (CSE disclosure) has been increasing greatly in developed markets since 1990s. Accordingly, most of the relevant literature focuses on the development of CSE disclosure in developed markets; little attention has been paid to emerging markets. CSE disclosure in fact may have important implications …
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The managerial and organisational approaches for marketing imported fruit and vegetables within the UK
… inter- country competition. (ii) The demands of developed markets for high quality specifications, continuity of supply, branded and promoted products coupled with the physical attributes of fresh produce in terms of perishability, seasonality and the difficulty to differentiate as between …
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Can a proxy for international investor sentiment towards emerging markets be identified?
… of the research is based on linkages between developed markets or between developed markets and emerging markets. Emerging markets have only been a feature of research for periods of crisis and contagion such as the emerging market crisis of 1997 and 1998. The common argument used to explain …
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Comparison of sovereign risk and its determinants
… position of South Africa compared to Emerging Markets as well as in comparison to Developed Markets is considered. Particular interest is taken in how the South African Sovereign Risk environment, and its associated determinants, differs and conforms to that of other Emerging Markets. This …
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Relationship between mutual fund flow and fund performance : a study in China
… by using Chinese market data will be compared to developed markets, for example, the U.S. market, see if similar patterns appear in both markets.
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Essays on Financial Market Interdependence
… spillover and correlations among national stock markets, and the structure of dependence between stocks and commodity futures. It consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 briefly reviews the literature background of financial market interdependence and summarizes the contribution of the thesis. …
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Media Coverage and the Cross Section of Stock Returns A Probe into the JSE
… and individual, mass media coverage of stocks markets can alleviate financial information frictions and consequently affect the valuation of securities even when it does not present genuine news. The empirical objective of this research is to investigate this hypothesis by studying media …
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An assessment of the style and performance of South African institutional fund managers
… classification and benchmarking research in developed markets by extending such analyses to the South African context. ... A differentiating feature of this study is both the style indices used and the sample of fund manager return data in the South African context. The style indices used …
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A comparison on the execution of variables that determine successful mergers and acquisition activity in emerging markets : differences between emerging market multinational and developed market multinational corporations
… in two contexts, one focusing on those from the developed, and the other on those from the developing economies (Buckley et al.2008). According to (Panond, 2007), internationalization of Emerging Market Multinational Corporations (EMMNCs) has appeared in two waves, the first wave, which emerged …
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Competencies, capabilities, and relational factors in buyer-supplier Business-to-Business networks
… of concepts, ideas and measures conceived in developed markets to explain business marketing phenomena in non-western contexts. Moreover research has attributed this gap in the literature on the relative absence of Business-to-Business marketing research from emerging, non-western countries …
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Modelling Equities with a Stochastic Volatility Jump Diffusion
… volatility surfaces, and its usefulness in developed markets is well documented. However, there is a lack of research assessing its applicability to developing markets. Additionally, research surrounding its usefulness for hedging long term liabilities is limited, despite its frequent use …
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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
… foreign owned service firms with headquarters in developed 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 …
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An investigation of firm specific and macroeconomic variables and their influence on emerging market stock returns
… on the growing area of asset pricing research in developed markets by extending such analyses to those nations considered to be emerging. Of late the accuracy of a previously established cornerstone of asset pricing theory, namely the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) has been questioned. The …
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A Study of the Individual Pension Funds Allocation Strategy in China
… study investigates individual pension funds in developed markets, with a particular emphasis on the development of target date funds and target risk funds. The study also employs Monte Carlo simulations to compare the market performance and utility performance of various strategies in order to …
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Analysis of South African listed real estate to serve as an inflation hedge versus other asset classes
… been researched to the same extent as other more developed countries. In addition, the South African property sector has been excluded from international studies owing to its underdevelopment and inconsistent legislative environment. However, post 2013 the new SA REIT legislation was promulgated …
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Emerging Market Small and Medium Enterprises Internationalisation: A Meta-Analysis
… Corporations), often from the perspective of developed markets. However, recent research has examined the role of SMEs within developed markets, MNCs from emerging markets, and recently began to acknowledge the important role which emerging market SMEs have. It is important to study emerging …
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Essays in international finance
… on monthly exchange-rate returns for four developed and four emerging countries across different horizons. I implement a rolling window approach to the estimation and forecasting of the models, and construct an encompassing forecast. I also assess the economic value of the out-of-sample …
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Well-to-wheel greenhouse gas emissions and energy use analysis of hypothetical fleet of electrified vehicles in Canada and the U.S.
… many unanswered questions. It is unclear whether developed markets will have the infrastructure in place to support and successfully implement them. To date, limited effort has been made to comprehend if the energy and transportation solutions that work well for one city or geographic region may …
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Comparative analysis of market-based health delivery models in rural India
… new business models to serve these underserved markets. Increasing competition in developed markets and an impending "patent cliff' add pressure to derive innovative approaches to opening new revenue channels. To do so in base of the pyramid markets, firms will need to overcome substantial …
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