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Financial Crisis, Bank Acquisitions, And Value Creation: The Case Of Bank Mergers For The Past Five Years, Sarina Ar-Loc Ng Jan 2010

Financial Crisis, Bank Acquisitions, And Value Creation: The Case Of Bank Mergers For The Past Five Years, Sarina Ar-Loc Ng

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This paper will focus on the bank acquisitions of the United States and Europe. It will specify the most highly regarded cause of the financial crisis and consider what all the components might explain about perception of consumers in the United States and in Europe. This paper also uses a commonly used event study methodology to understand the market reaction in these bank acquisition announcements.


Emerging Stock Markets In Europe, The Middle East, And Asia, Man Ching Ko Jan 2005

Emerging Stock Markets In Europe, The Middle East, And Asia, Man Ching Ko

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The purpose of this research is to evaluate the performance of the emerging stock markets in three regions. The regions chosen as our testing targets are Europe, The Middle East, and Asia. Performance for 2002 to 2004 will be compared to the U.S. stock market.


The Capital Structure Puzzle: On The Existence Of An Optimal Capital Structure, Mohamed Lahiani Jan 2003

The Capital Structure Puzzle: On The Existence Of An Optimal Capital Structure, Mohamed Lahiani

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Corporate finance researchers have long been puzzled by low corporate debt ratios given debt's corporate tax advantage. What makes the capital structure debate especially intriguing is that the different theories represent such different, and in some ways almost diametrically opposed, decision-making processes.


Management Buyout In China, Wei Dai Jan 2003

Management Buyout In China, Wei Dai

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China's different economic environment, government infrastructure, and legal system might cause different management buyout procedures and results from management buyout procedures in the United States. Management buyout was originally created to increase efficiency and reduce agency cost in the United States in the 1960s; but management buyout in China is merely a tool to provide incentive programs for current management teams and reduce state-owned corporate shares.


Portfolio Optimization Analysis Of Federation Of Euro-Asian Stock Exchances (Feas), Selim Larlar Jan 2003

Portfolio Optimization Analysis Of Federation Of Euro-Asian Stock Exchances (Feas), Selim Larlar

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The results of this thesis suggest that investors should invest in portfolios consisting of the Standard and Poor's 500, the Ten Composite Index and the ten founding stock exchanges, rather than only invest in either the ten founding stock exchanges or Standard and Poor's 500.


Net-Present-Value Return On Marketing Investment Model For Arrowhead Credit Union, Tracy Jay Judy Jan 2001

Net-Present-Value Return On Marketing Investment Model For Arrowhead Credit Union, Tracy Jay Judy

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