An Empirical Investigation of Arbitrage Pricing Theory: A case Zimbabwe Petros Jecheche University of Zimbabwe ABSTRACT This study investigates the Arbitrage Pricing Theory for the case of Zimbabwe using time series data from 1980 to 2005 within a vector autoregressive (VAR) framework. The Granger causality tests are conducted to establish the existence of causality among the variables like inflation‚ exchange rate and Gross Domestic Product. The VAR estimates as shown by the impulse response
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Pricing Decisions and Profit Analysis Chapter 5 6/1/12 ANSWERS TO END-OF-CHAPTER QUESTIONS 5.1 a. A hospital that is a price setter has some degree of market dominance and hence can‚ more or less‚ dictate the prices that it sets on its services. Conversely‚ if the hospital is one of a large number in its service area and is not in a position to distinguish its services from other hospitals‚ it is a price taker. This means that it will have to “take” the prices set in the marketplace without having
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Question: Discuss how an increase in the value of each of the determinants of the option price in the Black-Scholes option pricing model for European options is likely to change the price of a call option. A derivative is a financial instrument that has a value determined by the price of something else‚ such as options. The crucial idea behind the derivation was to hedge perfectly the option by buying and selling the underlying asset in just the right way and consequently "eliminate risk"
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research topic: The implication of conditional betas on the Fama-French three factor model Introduction CAPM has been an active area of research over the past half century since the introduction of Sharpe development of the capital asset pricing model. Much progress has been made in the early years on the linear relationship between expected return and beta(Black‚ Jensen and Scholes 1972 and Fama and MacBeth 1973). Later studies however show weak empirical evidence on these relationships
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IACSIT Press‚ Singapore Competitive Pricing Strategies of Low Cost Airlines in the Perspective of Game theory Lim Seng Poh+ and Mohd. Ghazali bin Mohayidin Open University Malaysia Abstract. Price is the weapon of choice for many low cost airlines in the competition for market share. Regional low cost airlines’ pricing strategy for market stimulation is issuing free tickets and competing in ticket prices setting. It has been assumed as an effective strategy in influencing customers’ purchasing
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A Proposal for M. Phil Research Study ‘Costing and Pricing of Poultry products in Bangladesh – An Evaluation’ 1. Introduction: Agriculture plays an important role in economic development of Bangladesh. Poultry is one of the important subsectors of agriculture. Poultry is domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of producing eggs‚ meat‚ and/or feathers. Now a day‚ poultry is another growing industry in Bangladesh. Chickens‚ ducks‚ quails and turkeys‚ pigeons are included in poultry
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Page 1 Transfer Pricing Trident University ACC501- Accounting for Decision Making Professor – Dr. Tara Murphy Date – 4/20/2013 Page 2 Trident University ACC501- Accounting for Decision Making Professor – Dr. Tara Murphy Date – 4/20/2013 Transfer Pricing 1. Calculate the increase or decrease in profits for the three divisions and the company as a whole (four separate computations) if the agreement is enforced. Explain your thought
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Task 2 For this project I have compared prices of the return flight to Dublin from London Luton airport in August‚ September and November low-cost airlines company called Ryanair. I was looking for the closest times I could get for 7AM‚ 1PM and 6PM leaving the following day‚ in 30 days time and leaving in 3 months time. Date affect from 10 th of January 2014. Results are presented in table and chart below. London Luton to Dublin Dublin To London Luton August 16th‚ Saturday 06:35 - 07:50
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CHAPTER 8 APT 1.In a factor model‚ the return on a stock in a particular period will be related to _________. A. firm-specific events B. macroeconomic events C. the error term D. both a and b E. neither a nor b 2.Assume that stock market returns do follow a single-index structure. An investment fund analyzes 500 stocks in order to construct a mean-variance efficient portfolio constrained by 500 investments. They will need to calculate ________ estimates of firm-specific variances and ________
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ABSTRACT This paper demonstrates a particular model for making the pricing decisions associated with hotel booking. Implementing such pricing decisions that are designed to optimize the profitability of the hotel forms part of a policy commonly referred to as yield management. The model utilizes fore casts of demand in individual market segments to capitalize on the willingness of people in one segment to pay more than people in another segment. The procedure for doing this is necessarily time-based
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