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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"empirical examination"”.
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An empirical examination of Value line options
A number of studies have investigated the performance of common stocks recommended in The Value Line Investment Survey. Little attention, however, has been given to the performance of call options recommended in Value Line Options. This study has two major purposes. The first is to determine …
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The corporate debt maturity choice : an empirical examination
… on the more general topic of capital structure, empirical research in the corporate debt maturity area is still scant. Related studies had formulated theoretical justifications for the observed cross-sectional multiplicity of debt maturities without a parallel concern in empirical research and to …
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Complementarity of Politics and Administration: An Empirical Examination
<p>This dissertation is designed to examine the impact of the complementarity of politics and administration on local governments' fiscal performance. The study adopts Svara's <em>Politics-Administration Complementarity Model</em>, which explains the mutual interdependence and reciprocal influence …
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Tiered Market Structures: an Empirical Examination of NASDAQ
This dissertation consists of two essays examining tiered market structures. We focus on the June 2006 restructuring of the NASDAQ Stock Exchange where the listing environment changed from two to three tiers, creating a top tier with the highest listing standards for any exchange in the world. The …
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An empirical examination of alternative measures of job performance
This research addresses the dual aims of selection research: the understanding and prediction of job performance. Two areas of research regarding criterion construct validity are examined and a research model is developed in an attempt to integrate this literature. This research model formalizes …
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Stochastic processes of common stock returns : an empirical examination.
Thesis. 1980. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.
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An Empirical Examination of Boundary Conditions of Relational Exchange
Current marketing channel literature overwhelmingly suggests that entering exchange relationships leads to positive outcomes for the exchange parties. Yet, not all exchanges employ relational exchange. Thus, research appears to lack an understanding of the boundary conditions of successful …
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An Empirical Examination And Metaevaluation Of The Impact Evaluation Process
<p>This dissertation empirically examines the Guerra-Lopez (2007a) Impact Evaluation Process (IEP), which is a prescriptive program evaluation model. Since there is no generally accepted process for arriving at final judgments about the usefulness, appropriateness, effectiveness, reliability, and …
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User information satisfaction (UIS) and user productivity: an empirical examination
In this research the relationships between user information satisfaction (UIS) and user productivity were examined. Two users groups were used to test the following hypotheses: H₁<sub>A</sub>: There is no relationship between UIS and perceptions of decision-making quality for academic department …
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Motivation for Sport Persistence: An Empirical Examination of Underlying Theoretical Constructs
… was placed on an independent and simultaneous examination of the theoretical constructs of achievement goal orientations, perceived ability, and perceived costs-benefits of involvement to explain short persistence/withdrawal with four general purposes. These included (a) an examination of the …
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An empirical examination of ethical decision making by corporate accountants in Taiwan
The recent accounting scandals, characterised by the Enron affair, have not been confined to the U.S.A., but have been a worldwide phenomenon, embracing Taiwan. Most of them have involved dysfunctional behaviour incorporating earnings management. The factors which encourage earnings management …
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An Empirical Examination of Service Dominant Logic: The Theory of the Network
… theory of a performance-oriented network; (2) empirical assessment of the S-D Logic literature; and (3) development of an inductively generated theory of S-D Logic to include constructs, relationships, outcomes, and hypothesis. This investigation provides an important set of research findings. …
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An empirical examination of Bloomberg's macroeconomic forecasts of the G-7 nations
Market participants expend considerable resources on forecasting services to improve their decision-making processes. One of the more popular sources of these services is that of Bloomberg. In recent years Bloomberg has regularly polled reputable experts on macroeconomic forecasts in many …
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An empirical examination of bilateral seaborne trade flows in the world economy
… forms, more commonly used in trade models. Empirical implementation of the model has resulted in elasticity estimates which are much higher than those estimated in earlier trade models. This indicates a high degree of competition in international markets. The pattern of these elasticities …
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Political development: a theoretical and empirical examination of the role of urbanization
… role of urbanization in major theoretical and empirical works on political development. The examination takes place at three analytical levels: meta-theoretical, theoretical, and empirical; it is conducted utilizing a framework resulting from a reconstruction of philosophical works on concept …
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An Empirical Examination of the Effect of the Accounting for Stock Distributions
The results of this study have implications both for the accounting rules concerning stock distributions and for the information displayed in the stockholders' section of the balance sheet. In terms of the accounting rules for stock distributions, the FASB should maintain the accounting rules for …
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The Pricing of Pharmaceuticals by Online and Traditional Retailers: An Empirical Examination
Unlike the previous research, the principal findings of this thesis support the premise that retail marketplace on the Internet is more competitive than the brick-and-mortar marketplace. For the retail pharmacy market, I found that online price levels were lower for both over-the-counter and …
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An empirical examination of price behavior on the Hong Kong stock market
This dissertation examines stock price behavior on the Hong Kong stock market in terms of normality of returns and the efficiency of that market. The results reveal that the Hong Kong stock market is efficient, although the degree of efficiency is somewhat different from what has been found for …
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An empirical examination of the marketing problems experienced by New Zealand service organisations
… the services marketing literature by providing empirical support for Silvestro et al's (1992) service classification scheme, and to service marketers in New Zealand by providing insight into the types of marketing problems experienced by New Zealand service organisations. Such insights have …
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