Contract Duration and Relationship-Specific Investments: Empirical Evidence from Coal Markets – Joskow 1994 This paper seeks to test empirically the importance of relationship-specific investments in determining the duration of coal contracts negotiated between coal suppliers and electric utilities. Once the investments are sunk in anticipation of performance‚ "holdup" or "opportunism" incentives are created ex post which‚ if mechanisms cannot be designed to mitigate the parties ’ ability to
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An Empirical Test of German Stock Market Efficiency A Master Thesis submitted by Lindsay Gillette (188816) to Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Härdle in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science C.A.S.E. – Center for Applied Statistics and Economics Institute for Statistics and Econometrics Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Berlin‚ Germany September 13‚ 2005 II Declaration of Authorship I hereby confirm that I have authored this master thesis independently and without
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A fiasco of corporate renaming and communications: An empirical evidence Somboon Kulvisaechana Thammasat Business School Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy‚ Thammasat University 2 Prachan Road‚ Bangkok 10200 Thailand Tel. 662-225-2107 E-mail: cambridge@cantab.net A fiasco of corporate renaming and communications: An empirical evidence ABSTRACT This paper examines the dynamic interplay between image and identity being communicated in a major UK distribution company‚ and focuses on the
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company’s equity beta. One way to do this is to treat the equity beta as an average of the betas of several different areas of proxy company activity‚ weighted by the relative share of the proxy company market value arising from each activity. However‚ information about relative shares of proxy company market value may be quite difficult to obtain. A similar difficulty is that the ungearing of proxy company betas uses capital structure information that may not be readily available. Some companies have complex
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GLOBALIZATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM NIGERIA By KELECHI IYOKO. Abstract The concomitant unequal distribution of the benefits of Globalisation and the fear expressed by most developing countries about the negative impact of globalization‚ has made the question on the relationship between globalization (characterized by foreign direct investment‚ economy openness and net capital flows) and Economic Growth both in developed and developing countries lie at the heart
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International Research Journal of Finance and Economics ISSN 1450-2887 Issue 7 (2007) © EuroJournals Publishing‚ Inc. 2007 http://www.eurojournals.com/finance.htm Empirical Evidence on Retail Firms’ Equity Valuation Models Anastasia Vardavaki 13 Epidavrou str.‚ Halandri‚ 152 33 Athens‚ Greece E-mail: anastasia_vardavaki@yahoo.gr John Mylonakis 10 Nikiforou str.‚ Glyfada‚ 166 75 Athens‚ Greece E-mail: imylonakis@panafonet.r Abstract This paper presents the theoretical framework for the process
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<b>Abstract</b> <br>According to the Efficient Market Theory‚ it should be extremely difficult for an investor to develop a "system" that consistently selects stocks that exhibit higher than normal returns over a period of time. It should also not be possible for a company to "cook the books" to misrepresent the value of stocks and bonds. An analysis of current literature‚ however‚ indicates that companies can and do "beat the system" and manipulate information to make stocks appear to perform above
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Discussion of the concept of market efficiency and empirical approaches to test for it Introduction This essay will have a brief discussion of the concept of market efficiency and empirical approaches to test for the market efficient‚ firstly this essay will discuss the source of efficient-market hypothesis and then continue to discuss the three kinds of efficient markets which are weak-form efficient market ‚semi-strong-form efficient market ‚and strong-form efficient market. Secondly this essay
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The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (SWH) states that there is a systematic relationship between the grammatical categories of the language a person speaks and how that person both understands the world and behaves in it. (Wikipedia) The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis was created by two American linguists‚ Edward Sapir and his student Edward Lee Whorf‚ in the early 1930s. It is considered to be a mould language theory‚ which represents language as a mould in terms of which thought categories are cast. (Bruner et
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Market Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis of KSE 100 Index Haroon Mahmood (Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology) haroonmahmood29@gmail.com Dr. Kashif ur Rehman Iqra University Abstract In an efficient market‚ the actions of the many competing participants‚ leads to actual prices already reflecting the effects of current information and the actual price of a security to wander randomly about its intrinsic value. The fact that the market is efficient is important
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