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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"market activity"”.
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A Statistical Investigation of Stock Market Activity and Instances of Financial Crime
… statistical relationship between the stock market and incidences of financial crime in Illinois, Texas, and Utah through big data analysis techniques using data from the FBI’s Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) database. By analyzing the …
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The Market for Forward Contracts on Oil in Iceland. An assessment of market activity
… thesis is to make an assessment of the Icelandic market for forward oil contracts and answer a few questions about its state as of the year 2014. The market is compared to the spot market, important participants are examined, other oil price risk management tools and techniques in use are named, …
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Modeling the impact of transaction costs and alternative supply sources on water market activity in the western U.S.
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The analysis of limit orders using the Cox proportional hazards model with independent competing risks
… increases in volume on the sell side of the market and market activity. The probability of cancellation increases with increases in the liquidity demand and market activity for buy orders, volume on the same side of the market and absolute market activity for sell orders. Finally, the …
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The Rise and Fall of Markets Along Bluefields Bay, Jamaica
… data to explore the rise and fall of rural markets along Bluefields Bay, Jamaica, particularly the community of Belmont. The objective of this study is to answer the following questions: (1) When, why, and how did market activity in Belmont begin? (2) Why did market activity decline? (3) How …
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INVESTOR ATTENTION AND SENTIMENT
… disentangles these two potential drivers of market behaviour by studying how investors react to sports outcomes, weather conditions and merger and acquisition announcements. Firstly, a new dataset of medals for major participating countries and sponsor firms over four Summer Olympic Games is …
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Impact of Egypt's economic reform programme on the stock market performance
… this programme has affected Egypt's stock market performance. Using 18 years of data, which covered the period 1980/8 1 to 1997/98 and incorporates time periods prior to and after adopting the economic reform programme, the thesis empirically investigates three main issues. Firstly, there …
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Impact of culture on stock market development and corporate governance
… relationship between cultural values and stock market development in the United Kingdom, during the period 1991- 2004. Cultural values are represented by the cultural model of Hofstede (1980) which consists of five dimensions, which are: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism, …
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Demand for non-life insurance: Evidence from select insurance markets in Africa
The impact of insurance market activity within financial development is gaining more attention in academia, as the sector experiences growth within emerging markets. This paper aims to understand which macro-economic and social variables impact the growth or decline of the non-life insurance sector …
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Social Mobility and Crime Rates, 1970 - 2010: Applying the Cycles of Deviance Model to Violent and Economic Crime
… demographic factors, police size, illicit drug market activity, and firearm availability. Results show moderate support for the cycles of deviance model in predicting rates of homicide and burglary. However, social mobility\'s influence with respect to drug use appears to vary with the size of …
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Secondary Mortgage Markets & Place-Based Inequality: Space, GSEs and Social Exclusion in the Philadelphia Region
Secondary Mortgage Markets and Place-Based Inequality: Space, GSEs and Social Exclusion in the Philadelphia Region Michael H. Norton Temple University, 2015 Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair: Dr. Anne Shlay In 2015 virtually the entire US mortgage market is subsidized by US taxpayers. When the …
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Econometric analysis of the historical growth and volatility trends of various metals
… impact technological change and advance has on market activity. By studying historical production and price trends, boundaries of feasible growth can be determined and, dependent on a firm's goals, materials that may require added recyclability, substitution, or engineering efficiency …
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Investor Behavior Surrounding Trading Halts: Short Sales, Predation and Contagion Effects
… trading halts and short selling activity in the financial markets. In the first essay, the behavior of short sellers is examined surrounding interruptions in trading to determine if informed short sellers alter their trading patterns prior to and/or following a trading halt. This …
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Essays on repurchase agreements, bailouts, and the macroeconomics effects of bank failures
… of crisis with special attention paid to money market mutual funds (MMMF) and their use of repurchase agreements ("repos"). Repos play a significant role in global credit market activity. Yet, research regarding the underlying components of repos remains nascent. In the first chapter, I examine …
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On The Causes and Consequences of Divorce
… of three papers that investigate the labour market activity of women following a divorce and discuss the possible causes of divorce from theoretical and empirical perspectives. One of the consequences of divorce for women with dependent children who are not fully employed in labour market, is …
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Three Essays On Bond Trading
… listing in the US publicly traded corporate bond market. Overall, we find that listed corporate bonds have lower bid-ask spreads than unlisted corporate bonds. We specifically show that listed bond spreads are $0.14 lower than unlisted bond spreads. We find that execution venue matters for listed …
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The social bases of climate skepticism: Risk perception, ideology, and the creation of carbon publics
… environmental regulation with attacks on free markets, refusing to accept scientific authority as a legitimate form of expertise regulating market activity. Likewise, conservative politicians equate hydrocarbon energy with the creation of wealth itself, strategically allowing them to oppose …
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The role of information asymmetry and the level of market trading activity in shaping the time-to-maturity pattern of futures return volatility
I consider two explanations for the mixed empirical results on the Samuelson effect, which postulates that futures return volatility increases closer to maturity when the futures price becomes more sensitive to information flows. First, I empirically investigate Hong’s (2000) theoretical suggestion …
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The Gulag and Soviet Society in Western Siberia, 1929-1953
… Illicit interaction included widespread black-market activity, the smuggling of correspondence, sexual affairs, and, surprisingly, even instances of locals sneaking into the camps to use camp facilities. Condoned interaction took place at the level of local economic planning (the transfer of …
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