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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"industry effect"”.
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Foreign exchange risk exposure of Canadian domestic, exporting and multinational firms : market and industry effects on bilateral and multilateral exchange rates
… may be limited. However significant exposure effects are found for the exporting sample. In general, these results do not suggest that there are any benefits from using the more (theoretically) appealing industry specific exchange rates and the purely domestic index in studying the exposure to …
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An empirical investigation of the cash flow predictability of historical cost, general price level, and replacement cost income models
… findings, and additionally, to consider possible industry and firm-size effects on the ability to predict cash flow from alternative incomes. A data base was compiled from COMPUSTAT tapes (historical cost), the Parker model restatement procedures (general price-level) and the Easman data base that …
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Study of business failure in the hospitality industry from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives
Business failures in the hospitality industry were examined in this study from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives. In the micro-level study, this paper developed a discriminant model for predicting bankruptcy of hospitality firms (lodging and restaurant firms). This model achieved a …
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Does CEO Duality Matter: An Integrative Approach
… control mechanisms. They choose the most cost effective means of addressing the problems they face. If split positions are more cost effective, then the firm should choose to split positions other things equal. The very high predictive power of the estimated logistic model confirms the …
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Investor Behavior Surrounding Trading Halts: Short Sales, Predation and Contagion Effects
… essay investigates if a short-selling contagion effect exists for contemporaries of firms experiencing a trading halt. Although trading suspensions represent a firm-specific event, they may be vieas 'contagious' in the sense that they possess information relevant to other firms in the same …
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The impact of credit rating watchlist and effect of underwriter reputation on IPO underpricing
… Linear Models (GLMs) with fixed and mixed effects are applied to describe how an issuer matches with an underwriter for an initial public offering (IPO). The study focuses on the issuer's preference over underwriter reputation. From GLM with fixed effects, we find that the issuer tends to …