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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"open market"”.
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Open Market Share Repurchases in Europe: A Cross Country Analysis
This thesis addresses the topic of open market share repurchases in Europe over the period 1997 to 2006. This thesis strives to document and clarify the managerial motives as well as the market perception and respective reaction to open market share repurchases, in a cross country framework. …
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The rise and fall of open market emissions trading in New Jersey
… (NJDEP) promulgated rules governing its Open Market Emissions Trading (OMET) program. With a goal to provide industry with a greater degree of flexibility in meeting federal air compliance directives and simultaneously move the state towards the attainment of National Ambient Air Quality …
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Group decision making in a prototype engineering system : the Federal Open Market Committee
… a prototype Type 2 Group Decisions: the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) from 1970-1994 as a test case. One major advantage of studying the FOMC is the availability of data and relevant analytical published work. Our original empirical findings include: 1. Information ambiguity is the major …
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Prospective Reappointment and the Monetary Policy Preferences of the Federal Open Market Committee Members
… Bank Presidents at the meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). We have a hypothesis that the Bank presidents and Governors behave differently. We suppose that the governors of the FOMC which are completing a term of another governor and are eligible for reappointment change their …
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The Political economy of the Film Industry in Tanzania: From Socialism to an Open Market economy, 1961-2010
This study examines the film industry in Tanzania from the 1960s to 2010 and assesses how government policies, legislation, and cultural institutions have impacted filmmaking in Tanzania. By employing a critical political economy theoretical framework, the study explores succeeding administrations, …
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The value of human rights on the open market: Liberal economic policies and the achievement of personal integrity rights.
… aspects associated with globalization, trade openness, investment and IMF funding within a state. Liberal economic theory suggests that economic relationships should foster positive gains. Particularly, economic relationships engender economic prosperity, diffusion of norms and idea, as well …
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Three Essays on Trading and Banking
… The first essay, Short Sales in the NYSE Batch Open and NASDAQ Opening Cross, examines opening-trade short volume's relation to short volume for the rest of the trading day and to overnight, previous-day, and same-day price changes. We find that short volume in the batch open and opening cross …
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Economic factors influencing industrial landowner assistance programs on private forest land in the south
… strategies (i.e., fee land, leased land, and the open market). Over half (53%) of the firms reported that they had successfully purchased at least 90 percent of the desired timber put up for sale in their LAPs. In case studies of three company programs, a capital budgeting analysis showed that the …
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Essays in macroeconomics and corporate finance
… model, I show that maturity-lengthening open-market operations have no effect on long-term interest rates if agents in the economy ultimately receive the profits from the government's portfolio via lump-sum taxes or transfers. I then introduce limited participation - an assumption that …
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The buyback anomaly and using the undervaluation index on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
… excess returns following the announcement of an open market share repurchase. 454 share repurchases across 160 companies were included in the total sample over the period January 2003 to December 2021. Using event study methodology, the buyback anomaly survives the recently developed Fama and …
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An empirical study of equity repurchase decisions and market reaction
… behind corporate equity repurchases in the open market, via private repurchase, or through self tender offer. The hypotheses concerning motivations for stock repurchases investigated in this dissertation include (1) signalling undervaluation of stock prices; (2) free cash flows; and (3) …
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Towards the development of music as an intervention for Insomnia treatment: A research synthesis
… sleep-music products which are available on the open market. The thesis aims to compare research regarding the psychology of music and sleep, sleep sciences, music as an intervention for insomnia, music-assisted relaxation (PMR) for Insomnia, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBTi), and …
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Topics in Nonstationary Time Series
The press releases from the Federal Open Market Committee(FOMC) are one of the major inputs to the interest rate futures market. To estimate the impact associated with the FOMC announcements, the random intervention model is used for an empirical study on the Interest Rate Futures markets, using …
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Detecting Earnings Information in Repurchase Announcements using the Luck of the (Double) Irish
Previous studies disagree about whether open market repurchase announcements contain information about earnings expectations. Using a regulation that made tax haven-using firms’ repurchases more costly as a quasi-natural experiment, I find positive post-repurchase-announcement revisions in earnings …
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Financial Structure of Corn -Belt Cow -Calf Enterprises: The Impact of Alliance Participation on Producer Financial Position
… would likely be better off in the traditional open market.
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‘TOWARDS THE IMPROVEMENT OF CHINESE LABOUR LAW: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and South African Collective Labour Law’
With the expansion of the open market system and globalization, employees increasingly need more protection from the law. So how to properly and efficiently develop a labour law system is becoming an important question for many countries. China is one country facing this issue. Therefore, the …
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Towards the Improvement of Chinese Labour Law - A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and South African Collective Labour Law
With the expansion of the open market system and globalization, employees increasingly need more protection from the law. So how to properly and efficiently develop a labour law system is becoming an important question for many countries. China is one country facing this issue. Therefore, the …
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Valued Copies: Devotional Practice and Painting Workshop Production in the Burgundian Netherlands
… the need of workshops rapidly to produce for the open market.</p> <p> Part I treats the cultural and economic contexts of copying painting. The first chapter addresses the devotional culture of the Late Middle Ages which led to the widespread understanding of images as useful in personal and …
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Determinants of the Demand for and Supply of Money in Jordan: 1967-1980
… early stages of development in Jordan, namely, open market operations and the discount window. Evidently, such a situation will constrain our ability to formulate a reasonable money supply relationship based on free reserves.
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An assessment of knowledge use and knowledge management maturity among the micro, small and meduim enterprise sector in Zambia
… knowledge economy. Since the inception of the open market economy in Zambia in 1992 and the move to diversify Zambia's national economy from state control into private hands, the MSMEs still seem to be struggling with lack of innovation and competitiveness. Despite several attempts to boost the …
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