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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"financial assets"”.
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Dynamic Interdependence in Consumer Demand for Financial Assets
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Three Essays on Modeling Financial Risk and Pricing Financial Assets
Essay three: Nonparametric estimation of multifactor diffusion processes and its applications to Heath-Jarrow-Morton interest rate models . This essay develops a nonparametric estimation framework for multifactor diffusion processes with multivariate diffusion functions and applies it to …
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A multivariate GARCH model for the non-normal behaviour of financial assets
… for portfolios composed by a large number of assets.
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Calculation of Zakat on Financial Assets for American Muslims: A Financial and Jurisprudential Approach
… framework for calculating Zakat on modern financial assets specifically tailored for American Muslims. As one of the five pillars of Islam, Zakat is an obligatory form of charity for those who meet specific wealth criteria. However, applying traditional Zakat principles to contemporary …
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Impacts of Parental Resources on Child Educational Outcomes: Assets and Mediating Pathways
… is still no consensus on how different types of assets contribute to children's educational outcomes. Also, asset effects on high school dropout are not examined to date, and mediating pathways of social-psychological characteristics are more investigated with educational achievement: e.g. …
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Economic security, household income and household characteristics
… adjusted and nonadjusted, were constructed from financial assets and household liabilities. Adjusted economic security was defined as the length of time (measured in months) a household can sustain a socially determined minimum consumption level drawing only on financial assets. Nonadjusted …
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Optimal intertemporal decisions in imperfect capital markets
… are derived for both, firms operating in perfect financial markets and those facing credit constraints, due to imperfect capital markets. However, as in these markets, saving and investment decision may not be separable, we obtain the optimal dynamic path of these decisions for agents that own …
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Three essays on financial markets and the macroeconomy
Financial markets are of vital importance to the overall economy: many market movements and phenomena have deep roots in and profound influences on macroeconomic activity. It is thus essential for policymakers seeking to maintain a healthy economy to understand the information conveyed by financial …
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Applications of Copula Theory and Regime Switching in Finance
… evidence that the dependence structure of financial assets is often characterized by considerable time variation. Financial markets are repeatedly subjected to episodes of rapid growth and dramatic decline of asset prices, and the recent financial crisis reinforced the need to model extreme …
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A Study of Conditional Volatilities in Financial Markets using Generalized Conditional Heteroscedasticity Jump Models
… that the fact that jumps are inherent in financial markets and have implications for the dynamics of volatilities and co-volatilities of financial assets over time. Jump augmented models provide a superior description of instantaneous market conditions and a promising avenue for future …
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Economic Empowerment of Young Women in Southern Uganda: An embedded mixed-methods Dissertation study
… can help them gain control over their financial future, break free from the vicious cycle of poverty and inequality, and achieve autonomy and agency over their lives. Guided by the asset theory and the theory of gender and power, this dissertation employed an embedded mixed-methods …
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Life cycle investment behavior, demographics and asset prices
… of aggregate demographic demand for housing, financial assets net of debt, and stocks in excess of bonds, which are then used to analyze the effects of demographically driven changes in aggregate asset demand on equilibrium asset prices over the period from 1946 through 1997. The results of …
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The impact of mobile money on macroeconomic development: insights from Côte d'Ivoire
Mobile money has contributed to financial inclusion across African countries. Indeed, mobile money has proven immense economic benefits to developing countries and is a driving force behind numerous economic activities. However, there are concerns that mobile money may perhaps weaken financial …
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Determinants of tourism in African countries: the market value of the economy, financial factors and country risk
… while the market value of the economy from financial theory is a stock variable that incorporates the effects of production costs, output value, depreciation and expected losses. Hence, the market value of the economy from financial theory is employed as a proxy for tourism income. The …
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Does the Permanently Reinvested Earnings Assertion Influence Perceptions of Credit Risk?
… reinvested earnings (PRE) assertion on the financial reporting environment has grown tremendously. Under Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 740, a firm making the PRE assertion is able to avoid recognizing residual U.S. taxes on earnings of its foreign subsidiaries so long as it …
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Civil Asset Forfeiture in the Fight Against Drugs (Policy Analysis)
… would continue illegal activities, unless their financial assets are removed. Thus, civil forfeiture intends to dismantle the economic infrastructure of drug trafficking networks. Civil forfeiture considers the property as guilty, rather than the owner, and it may exist even if there is not a …
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Examining Immigrant Experiences in Asset Building: Implications for Asset-Based Policies
… immigrants’ settlement, legal status, financial access, and wealth building, with analyses extending to the second generation. The dissertation consists of three papers. The first paper examines how initial legal status affects lawful permanent residents’ (LPRs) asset building by …
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The Structure of Production and Portfolio Decisions of Investment
… projects itself as the general form of money and financial assets. The present dissertation shows how the financial and the productive sides of the economy are inherently connected. Collective production requires division of labor. Division of labor requires the formulation of production …
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Farmland Risk-Return Characteristics and Fama-French 5 Factor Model
… especially when contrasted with conventional financial assets like stocks. Building on the foundational work of scholars such as Barry (1980), who utilized the CAPM model to ascertain the marginal risk farmland contributes to a diversified portfolio, this study aims to examine if latest …
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Financial stocks and political bonds: stock market participation and political behavior in the United States and Britain
… on political behavior. Some observers claim that financial assets—stocks and mutual funds—have a causal effect on political behavior. The “investor class theory” asserts that as people invest in the stock market their partisan attachments shift rightward. The “asset effect theory” claims that …
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