Do you think men and women look for different characteristics when looking for long-term involvement with a partner? Yes‚ I think men look for different things than women. What characteristics and why? I think most men want women to have a life of her own. That means that means that she can take care of herself‚ pay attention to her personal style. I think it all boils down to attractiveness and their personality. Physical looks can get a lady’s initial interest‚ but it isn’t what builds attraction
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The Stock Market and Corporate Investment: A Test of Catering Theory Christopher Polk London School of Economics Paola Sapienza Northwestern University‚ CEPR‚ and NBER We test a catering theory describing how stock market mispricing might influence individual firms’ investment decisions. We use discretionary accruals as our proxy for mispricing. We find a positive relation between abnormal investment and discretionary accruals; that abnormal investment is more sensitive to discretionary accruals
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THE VIETNAMESE STOCK MARKET By Roberta S. Karmel Thirty years ago‚ I never imagined I would be visiting Vietnam and be warmly welcomed as an American‚ witnessing a nation enjoying economic growth and increasing prosperity‚ despite some of the lingering ill effects of Agent Orange in the countryside. Yet‚ last month‚ as part of a delegation from the Financial Women’s Association‚ I had the good fortunate to travel to Vietnam and meet with government officials and others and learn about business developments
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What are Yield to Maturity (YTM) and Yield to Call (YTC)? By calculating the present and future value of bonds‚ managers can make sound decisions about their potential strengths and weaknesses as investments. Answer the following questions in this week’s Discussion 2 thread: 1. What terms (or inputs) are needed to calculate yield to maturity (YTM)? How does this compare to calculating yield to call (YTC)? To calculate the YTM you will need to use Annual Interest‚ Par value‚ Market Price
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Journal of Banking & Finance 36 (2012) 2216–2232 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Journal of Banking & Finance journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jbf Are corporate bond market returns predictable? Yongmiao Hong a‚b‚ Hai Lin c‚d‚ Chunchi Wu e‚⇑ a Department of Economics‚ Cornell University‚ Ithaca‚ NY 14853‚ USA Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics and MOE Key Laboratory in Econometrics‚ Xiamen University‚ Xiamen 361005‚ China c Department of Accountancy
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in our current republican democracy in the United States there are term limits for the president‚ but not for congressmen. Members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms and are considered for reelection every even year. Senators‚ however‚ serve six-year terms and elections to the Senate are staggered over even years so that 1/3 of the Senate is up for reelection during any election. This system of nonexistent term limits for Congress is vulnerable to corruption‚ is close-minded‚ and
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customer base and gain competitive advantage over the competitors. • Develop strategic approach to grow market share in emerging markets like India. In India apple I phone is still ranked after android supported phones. Internal Business Processes objectives • Develop ethical suppliers for its products: Unlike Foxconn (the current supplier of I phone)‚ which usually suffers with labor unrest due to ill and unethical working conditions. In long run Apple should aim at replacing Foxconn with
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Did you know that for every cigarette you smoke you can lose eleven minutes off your life? Smoking can not only leave you with long term affects you may not be able to get rid of but it will leave you poor and maybe dead. Mankind first came in touch with tobacco approximately eighteen thousand years ago‚ when migrant Asiatic people first intersected the Bering Strait and extended across the continents today known as the Americas‚ where tobacco is native (Gately ‚2001). Mayan Indians of Mexico
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perpetual bond is currently selling for RS. 95/-. The coupon rate of interest is 13.5%. The approximate discount rate is 15%. The value of the bond and the YTM is: (a) Rs. 90/- and 14.2% Value is (13.5*15%=90) and YTM is ((13.5/95)*100=14.21%) (b) Rs. 100/- and 13.5% (c) Rs. 90 and 15% (d) Rs. 90/- and 13.5% 902. In 2001‚ Meridian Ltd. has issued bonds of Rs. 10‚000/-each due in 2011 with a 14% per annum coupon rate payable at the end of each year during the life of the bond. If the required
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WO R K I N G PA P E R S E R I E S N O. 3 5 9 / M AY 2 0 0 4 THE LONGER TERM REFINANCING OPERATIONS OF THE ECB by Tobias Linzert‚ Dieter Nautz and Ulrich Bindseil WO R K I N G PA P E R S E R I E S N O. 3 5 9 / M AY 2 0 0 4 THE LONGER TERM REFINANCING OPERATIONS OF THE ECB 1 by Tobias Linzert 2‚ Dieter Nautz 3 and Ulrich Bindseil 4 In 2004 all publications will carry a motif taken from the €100 banknote. This paper can be downloaded without charge from http://www
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