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Showing 1 to 20 of 2050 for “"empirical evidence"”.
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Aspects of exchange rate determination : empirical evidence
… number of exchange rate models and assess their empirical performance. Using the data from the Group-S members in the post Bretton Woods period, we investigate the presence of the risk premium among different models. Our results are remarkably satisfactory.A 'new' random walk model is tested. It …
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Germany as an Immigration Country : Empirical Evidence
… is far from reality. This thesis provides ample evidence for this hypothesis and contributes to the received literature in economic migration research for the case of Germany. It analyzes the determinants of welfare dependence among immigrants from different generations living in Germany and the …
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International franchise distribution: Theory and empirical evidence
The objective of this study is to determine how US franchisors in the food service, hotels/motels, and business services industries choose between owning the wholesaler or contracting with an independent wholesaler to distribute their franchise system in host countries. US franchisors own the …
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Empirical evidence of utility sponsored conservation programs
… household gas consumption. Therefore, empirical evidence cannot support the NEB claims. The evidence does show that, on an average annual basis, participants are consuming less than non-participants.
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Empirical Evidence of Pricing Efficiency in Niche Markets
… months Bermudan CDs (1Y NC 3M CDs), provides evidence of market efficiency. The 1Y NC 3M swap and 1Y NC 3M CD markets efficiently reflected unexpected economic information. The 1Y NC 3M swaption premiums also followed the European one-year into three-month (1Y into 3M) swaption volatilities. …
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Corporate accountability in a globalizing environment : empirical evidence
For many years, there have been vigorous arguments between supporters of the shareholder and stakeholder models as to which system is more effective in enhancing corporate values and disciplining managements. What view one takes of course very much depends on political viewpoint and national …
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"Successful fiscal adjustments" : empirical evidence from South Africa
From 1973 to 1997 South Africa's fiscal stance has undergone large fluctuations. The primary balance of the general government recorded a surplus of 3.8% of GDP in 1990 and a deficit equivalent to 4.5% of GDP in both 1977 and 1994. This paper identifies ten episodes of fiscal adjustment, defined as …
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CPPI for fixed income securities : empirical evidence in Canada
Portfolio Insurance (PI) is a trading intensive strategy that attempts to protect a portfolio from falling below a prespecified level in an adverse market and to add return in a favourable environment. The primary objective of this research is to see whether or not portfolio insurance (PI) can be …
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Does CEO Compensation Encourage Risk-Taking? Empirical Evidence from FTSE350.
… listed as a part of the FTSE index. We performed empirical analysis using random effect, generalized linear model (GLM), generalized method of moments (GMM), and Robust panel regression. We find that performance-related compensation reduces corporate risk-taking. We also find that based (fixed) …
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Determinants of dividend policy: empirical evidence from Nigerian listed firms.
… based on the theoretical predictions and empirical findings from the literature reviewed, in order to explain the determinants of dividend payouts of non-financial firms in Nigeria. This study used a quantitative method design based on a positivist paradigm to draw its conclusions. …
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Performance of privatised and private firms : empirical evidence from Egypt
… continue to target it for both theoretical and empirical work. The objective of this thesis is to evaluate the Egyptian experiment concerning its privatisation programme, and to determine whether this programme has affected the performance of privatised firms. Using 15 years of data, which cover …
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Public and private investment in Brazil: Empirical evidence about complementarity
… economy. However, historical observation and empirical evidence indicate that the state has lost some of its dynamic properties in the last decade. Overall, our results corroborate the long-run complementarity hypothesis for the Brazilian economy in the period in question. The provision of …
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Migrant labor and farm technical efficiency: Empirical evidence from Lesotho
The study estimates and tests for differences in technical inefficiencies for farms with and without migrant workers in Lesotho. It also considers farm size and gender implications for inefficiencies. The stochastic production frontier and logit models are estimated using maximum likelihood …
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Public debt and economic growth: empirical evidence from South Africa
This study seeks to investigate the relationship between public debt and economic growth in South Africa for the period 1977 – 2019. This study also seeks to review economic theories related to public debt and economic growth namely: Neoclassical, Ricardian and Keynesian theory. To achieve the …
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Financial development, remittances and economic growth : empirical evidence from Egypt
The relationship between remittances, financial development, and real growth in recent years has increasingly become a topic of interest for scholars and practitioners alike. With the ever presence of globalization, the migratory patterns have fundamentally changed. The migration of people no …
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Individual Skill Flexibility and Turnover: Empirical Evidence from Hotel Employees
… through improved job satisfaction. However, the empirical association between employee skill flexibility and turnover at the individual level has remained unexplored in the HR literature. This study fills in this research gap by drawing on the theoretical framework of employee skill flexibility …
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Redefining discipline in a contemporary school setting: Empirical evidence from Kasulu
… discipline in a contemporary school setting with empirical evidence from Kasulu District. In order to achieve this purpose, the study was guided by three research objectives. The first objective in this study was to determine the way stakeholders define discipline in a school setting in Kasulu …
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International Trade in a Competitive World: Empirical Evidence from the UK
… the trading firms. The second chapter provides evidence for the parameter heterogeneity in firm-level service exports and imports in a gravity context. According to the findings, the impact of typical gravity variables is influenced by the firm characteristics and differs along the distribution …
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