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تفعيل عملية تدقيق ورقابة الاداء على مؤسسات البلديات لتحقيق التنمية المستدامة بحث تطبيقي في مديرية بلديات محافظة المثنى, وعد هادي عبد الحساني Mar 2018

تفعيل عملية تدقيق ورقابة الاداء على مؤسسات البلديات لتحقيق التنمية المستدامة بحث تطبيقي في مديرية بلديات محافظة المثنى, وعد هادي عبد الحساني

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث الى معرفة ماهية التنمية المستدامة وعملية تدقيق ورقابة الاداء على المؤسسات العامة ومعايير التدقيق والرقابة التي تناولت الموضوع ، كما يهدف الى تطبيق عملية تدقيق ورقابة الاداء على عينة البحث لتحقيق التنمية المستدامة من خلال قياس اثر انشطة مؤسسات البلديات على ابعاد واهداف التنمية المستدامة ، ولقد توصل البحث الى اهم الاستنتاجات وهي عدم قيام المدقق الداخلي والمدقق الخارجي لمؤسسات البلديات في تفعيل عملية تدقيق ورقابة الاداء على انشطة البلديات لتحقيق التنمية المستدامة ، وضعف مؤسسات البلديات في اعداد وتنفيذ خطة لتحصيل ايراداتها السنوية اثر سلبا على نصيب الفرد من ( سكان الحضر ) الذي يمكن ان يحصل …


أثر عناصر المزيج الترويجي للخدمة التأمينية في تحقيق رضا الزبون دراسة تحليلية لآراء عينه من زبائن شركة التامين الوطنية / فرع الديوانية, لقاء ميري حبيب ميري حبيب Mar 2018

أثر عناصر المزيج الترويجي للخدمة التأمينية في تحقيق رضا الزبون دراسة تحليلية لآراء عينه من زبائن شركة التامين الوطنية / فرع الديوانية, لقاء ميري حبيب ميري حبيب

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

لقد تناول البحث الحالي احد العناصر الاساسية والحيوية في العمل التسويقي لشركات التأمين من خلال استعراض احد الانشطة المهمة والمؤثرة في تحقيق اهدافها التسويقية والمتمثل بالمزيج الترويجي الذي يشمل على اربعه عناصر هي (العلاقات العامة ،البيع الشخصي ، تنشيط المبيعات ،الاعلان ) يهدف البحث الى دراسة واقع المزيج الترويجي في شركات التأمين واعتمد البحث جمع البيانات من عينه زبائن شركة التامين الوطنية / فرع الديوانية ولتحقيق هدف البحث قامت الباحثة بتوزيع استبانه أعدت لهذا الغرض على مجتمع البحث المكون من الزبون وفي ضوء ذلك جرى تحليل البيانات واختبار الفرضيات باستخدام الاساليب الاحصائية الملائمة (الاوساط الحسابية والانحرافات المعيارية والارتباط (بيرسون والانحدار) …


توظيف سلوكيات القيادة البارعة لتعزيز سلوك العمل الابداعي دراسة استطلاعية لآراء عينة من أعضاء الهيئة التدريسية في كليات جامعة القادسية, صالح عبد الرضا رشيد Mar 2018

توظيف سلوكيات القيادة البارعة لتعزيز سلوك العمل الابداعي دراسة استطلاعية لآراء عينة من أعضاء الهيئة التدريسية في كليات جامعة القادسية, صالح عبد الرضا رشيد

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى التعرف على مدى تأثير سلوكيات القيادة البارعة لرؤساء الاقسام العلمية على السلوك الابداعي لأعضاء الهيأة التدريسية في كليات جامعة القادسية . وقد تم اختبار سلوكيات القيادة البارعة من خلال نوعين من السلوكيات هما السلوكيات المنفتحة والسلوكيات المنغلقة ، فيما تم اختبار السلوك الابداعي من خلال نوعين من السلوك أيضا هما السلوك الابداعي الاستكشافي ببعديه الفرعيين استكشاف الفرصة وتوليد الفكرة ، والسلوك الابداعي الاستثماري ببعديه الفرعيين الترويج للفكرة وتنفيذ الفكرة . وقد تم استطلاع آراء عينة من أعضاء الهيئة التدريسية في كليات الجامعة بلغ عدد أعضاءها (287 ) تدريسيا وتدريسية واعتمدت الدراسة الاستبانة أداة رئيسة للحصول على …


دور مراقب الحسابات في تقويم اداء المصارف الخاصة وبيان مدى تعرضها للتعثر المالي من خلال تطبيق نظام Sherrod دراسة تطبيقية في عينه من المصارف الأهلية العراقية, عقيل دخيل كريم Mar 2018

دور مراقب الحسابات في تقويم اداء المصارف الخاصة وبيان مدى تعرضها للتعثر المالي من خلال تطبيق نظام Sherrod دراسة تطبيقية في عينه من المصارف الأهلية العراقية, عقيل دخيل كريم

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تتعلم الأمم من تجاربها ومن تجارب الآخرين ومن أي عثرات تواجهها فمن هذه التجارب ينكون لديها خبرات للمستقبل ويعد تجاوز تلك العثرات منطلقاً للتقدم للأمام بكل قوة. لذا يقع على عاتق مراقبي الحسابات مسؤولية الافصاح عن مدى قدرة الوحدة الاقتصادية عن الاستمرار بمزاولة نشاطها ، والتنبؤ باحتمالات الفشل المالي للوحدة والابلاغ عن الشكوك في عدم قدرة تلك الوحدات تحت التدقيق على الاستمرار في نشاطها ، وهذا ما ركزت عليه معايير التدقيق المهنية ولهذا جاء هذا البحث متناولاً مشكلة القصور الواضح لدى مراقبي الحسابات وادارات الوحدات الاقتصادية في التزام بمسؤولياتهم اتجاه بيان قدرة الوحدة على الاستمرار وكذلك تحديد مسؤوليات مراقبي الحسابات …


التمكين النفسي وتأثيره على السلوك الابداعي دراسة تطبيقية في مديرية بيئة القادسية, خيريه عبد فضل الخالدي Mar 2018

التمكين النفسي وتأثيره على السلوك الابداعي دراسة تطبيقية في مديرية بيئة القادسية, خيريه عبد فضل الخالدي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تناول هذا البحث التمكين النفسي وتأثيره على السلوك الابداعي لعينة من العاملين في مديرية بيئة القادسية . اذ يضم متغير التمكين النفسي اربعه ابعاد متمثلة بـ (المعنى , المقدرة, الاستقلالية, التأثير) ,اما متغير السلوك الابداعي فتمثل أبعاده ( توليد الافكار , ترويج الافكار , تنفيذ الافكار) , وقد اعتمد هذا البحث على المنهج التحليلي للبيانات التي جمعت من آراء عينة مكونه من (124) موظف في مديرية بيئة القادسية واختبرت فرضيات البحث باستخدام معامل الارتباط البسيط و تحليل الانحدار المتعدد وعدد من الادوات الاحصائية الاخرى الملائمة لتحقيق اهداف البحث الحالي باستخدام برنامج SPSS.v.24)). وقد أثبتت النتائج التطبيقية للبحث صحة الفرضيات التي …


تحليل السيولة ، الربحية ، الرفع المالي في ضوء ادارة المخاطر المصرفية المصرف التجاري العراقي حالة دراسية 2005 – 2015, غسان طارق ظاهر Mar 2018

تحليل السيولة ، الربحية ، الرفع المالي في ضوء ادارة المخاطر المصرفية المصرف التجاري العراقي حالة دراسية 2005 – 2015, غسان طارق ظاهر

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تعد موضوعة السيولة والربحية والرفع المالي في ظل ادارة المخاطر المصرفية من الموضوعات التي تحظى باهتمام الاقتصاديين، من خلال البحث في طبيعة العلاقة بين تلك المتغيرات لتحقيق التوازن والموائمة في ادارة السيولة لجانبي الموجودات والمطلوبات للبنوك، فضلا عن تحقيق عنصر الأمان، وبالتالي تشكل تلك المتغيرات الأقطاب الثلاثة، والتي لا يمكن لأي بنك الاستغناء عنها، وتتلخص فكرة البحث في تحليل ادارة السيولة لجانبي الموجودات ومكوناتها فضلا عن ادارة جانب المطلوبات والذي تمثل بإجمالي القروض قصيرة الاجل، فضلا عن تحليل اثر الرفع المالي في ربحية البنك التجاري العراقي، للمدة 2005-2015، من خلال بناء نماذج قياسية للمدة موضوعة البحث، وخلصت الدراسة الى تطابق …


إدارة المصارف الإسلامية ودورها في تحقيق التنمية الاقتصادية بعض المصارف الإسلامية العربية إنموذجاً للمدة 2006- 2013, صباح رحيم مهدي الاسدي Mar 2018

إدارة المصارف الإسلامية ودورها في تحقيق التنمية الاقتصادية بعض المصارف الإسلامية العربية إنموذجاً للمدة 2006- 2013, صباح رحيم مهدي الاسدي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

ان الغاية من انشاء المصارف الاسلامية، هي مواجهة التحديات التي تواجه المسلمون من خلال تعاملاتهم المالية والاستثمارية، وما لها من علاقة بالمصارف التجارية، لان اغلب المعاملات التجارية تحتاج الى ايداع وسحب وأتمان مصرفي، وخوفا من الوقوع بدائرة الحرام من خلال التعاملات الربوية (التعامل بالفائدة). فجاءت فكرة انشاء المصارف الاسلامية ترسيخا لمبادئ التعاليم الاسلامية وادراكا لحجم التحديات التي تعاني منها الامة الاسلامية في مجالها الاقتصادي، لذا كان من الضروري ايجاد آلية فاعلة للتصدي لتلك التحديات، من خلال تكوين مؤسسات مصرفية تنموية هدفها الابتعاد عن التعامل بالفائدة، وفي الوقت نفسه العمل على دعم التنمية الاقتصادية والتقدم الاجتماعي للشعوب والمجتمعات الاسلامية وفقا لمبادئ …


Estimation Of Cost Efficiency Without Cost Data, Levent Kutlu, Ran Wang Mar 2018

Estimation Of Cost Efficiency Without Cost Data, Levent Kutlu, Ran Wang

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

One of the advantages of conduct parameter games is that they enable estimation of market power without total cost data. In line with this, we develop a conduct parameter based model to estimate the firm specific “marginal cost efficiency” and conduct without using total cost data. The marginal cost efficiency is an alternative measure of efficiency that is based on deadweight loss. We illustrate our methodology by estimating firm-route-quarter specific conducts and marginal cost efficiencies of U.S. airlines for Chicago based routes without using route-level total cost data.


What Do Outside Directors Actually Do? Evidence From Their Voting Activities, Wonseok Choi, Monika K. Rabarison Mar 2018

What Do Outside Directors Actually Do? Evidence From Their Voting Activities, Wonseok Choi, Monika K. Rabarison

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

Prior studies on the monitoring role of outside directors tend to be based on the assumption of interest differences between agents and principals and adhere to arbitrary definitions of board independence or quality. Using a unique dataset of individual outside directors’ voting activities on items proposed by managers of Korean public firms between FY2010 and FY2014, we investigate whether outside directors play an effective role in mitigating agency problems, without such assumption and arbitrary definitions. We find that outside directors can provide effective monitoring by expressing strong dissension, such as disagreeing, withdrawing their votes, or holding their votes on managers’ …


Managerial Incentives And Changes In Corporate Investments Following The Inception Of Credit Default Swap Trade, Hyun A. Hong, Ji Woo Ryou, Anup Srivastava Mar 2018

Managerial Incentives And Changes In Corporate Investments Following The Inception Of Credit Default Swap Trade, Hyun A. Hong, Ji Woo Ryou, Anup Srivastava

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

A credit default swap (CDS) enables a lender to hedge its risk exposure on a loan given to reference client. The lender then reduces the monitoring of the client’s activities as well as aiding the distressed client. Two contrasting predictions can be made about how the borrower would respond to the altered lender-borrower relationship. (1) The borrower reduces risky investments to lower its vulnerability to financial distress. (2) The borrower pursues volatility-enhancing projects to increase the value of call options built into its shareholder investments. We find that a borrower shifts to a more conservative policy when its managers have …


Empirical Evidence On The Relationship Between Audit Probability And Internal Revenue Service Budget Levels, Akinloye Akindayomi, Gideon T. Akileye, Adeduro A. Ogunmakin Mar 2018

Empirical Evidence On The Relationship Between Audit Probability And Internal Revenue Service Budget Levels, Akinloye Akindayomi, Gideon T. Akileye, Adeduro A. Ogunmakin

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

Despite a large literature on tax avoidance strategies by individuals and the IRS ability to curb them, how the agency’s audit/examination activities respond to tax expenditures within the individual taxation context is not well understood. We hypothesize that IRS audit probability of individual tax returns will positively respond to the magnitude of different tax expenditure drivers if the agency has a shot at curtailing them. We find that while the probability of IRS audit increases as the agency’s budget on enforcement activities increases, tax expenditures do not appear to prompt IRS enforcement activities in many of the tax expenditures drivers.


Are Volatility Expectations In Different Countries Interdependent? A Data-Driven Solution To Structural Var Identification For Implied Equity Volatility Indices, Timothy De Silva Mar 2018

Are Volatility Expectations In Different Countries Interdependent? A Data-Driven Solution To Structural Var Identification For Implied Equity Volatility Indices, Timothy De Silva

Undergraduate Economic Review

Over the past couple of decades, the number of volatility indices has increased rapidly. Although the dynamics of realized volatility spillover have been studied extensively, very few studies exist that examine the spillover between these implied volatility indices. By using DAG-based structural vector autoregression, this paper provides evidence that implied volatility spillover differs from realized volatility spillover. Through solving the well-known VAR identification problem for these indices, this paper finds that Asia, more specifically Hong Kong, plays a central role in implied volatility spillover during and after the 2008 financial crisis.


Entrepreneurship Education Empowers Youth To Change Their Lives, Marianna Brashear, Jason Riddle Mar 2018

Entrepreneurship Education Empowers Youth To Change Their Lives, Marianna Brashear, Jason Riddle

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) aims at equipping Title 1 schools with free, hands-on, engaging materials that any teacher can facilitate either individually or in a classroom setting with no background in entrepreneurship necessary. These versatile lessons, courses, and workshops teach the entrepreneurial mindset optimizing opportunities for grades 8-12 students no matter which life/career path they choose.


Tests Of Racial Discrimination In A Simple Financial Market: Managers In Major League Baseball, Rodney Paul, Andrew Weinbach, Justin Mattingly Mar 2018

Tests Of Racial Discrimination In A Simple Financial Market: Managers In Major League Baseball, Rodney Paul, Andrew Weinbach, Justin Mattingly

Finance and Economics

This study tests for racial discrimination against minority managers in Major League Baseball using financial-market imbalances as it relates to the wagering marketplace for the sport. Using detailed betting data on the percentage bet on the favorite from Sports Insights, we test for prejudice against minority mangers using an ordinary least squares multiple regression model. The results reveal that bettors have a clear preference for the favored team as the percentage bet on the favorite increases with the odds on the favorite. In addition, they prefer road favorites by an even greater margin. In terms of minority managers, there is …


Institutions: Key Variable For Economic Development In Latin America, Andre Vianna, André Varella Mollick Mar 2018

Institutions: Key Variable For Economic Development In Latin America, Andre Vianna, André Varella Mollick

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

This article examines economic development from 1996 to 2015 for 192 countries and specifically Latin America. Evidence shows that each 0.1-point increase in institutions impacts a 3.9% improvement in Latin American per capita output versus a 2.6% effect on world development. This new evidence from Latin America shows a missing opportunity to develop at higher annual pace than the 2.14% average, mainly due to the deterioration in rule of law. We conjecture the efficiency of monetary/fiscal policies will improve if policymakers emphasize projects that foster improvements to institutional quality, such as transparency, public spending quality and fiscal responsibility.


The Plough, Gender Roles, And Corruption, Gautam Hazarika Feb 2018

The Plough, Gender Roles, And Corruption, Gautam Hazarika

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

Cross-country empirical studies of corruption using ordinary least squares commonly find that nations in which women play a greater role in economic and public life suffer less corruption. This has been a controversial finding since measures of women’s participation in the economy and politics are likely endogenous. This study uses an aspect of national ancestral geography as a novel instrumental variable in the estimation of the true causal effects of gender upon corruption. It thereby finds that ordinary least squares estimates of the effects of gender upon corruption are biased. This conclusion is upheld in time-series fixed-effects estimation.


Microfinance And The Decision To Invest In Children’S Education, P.V. Viswanath Feb 2018

Microfinance And The Decision To Invest In Children’S Education, P.V. Viswanath

Faculty Working Papers and Articles

Although one of the primary objectives of microfinance has been the reduction of poverty through the provision of credit for income-generating purposes, evidence of its impact on poverty has been mixed. Even if there is no direct impact of microfinance, there may be an indirect positive impact through the effect of microcredit availability on families’ decisions to invest in their children’s education. In this paper, I describe a study undertaken to gauge the impact of microcredit availability on education expenditures for children of clients of a South Indian microfinance institution. I first look at some determinants of the demand for …


Bayesian State Space Representation Model: Applications To Macroeconomics And International Finance, Hiroshi Morita Feb 2018

Bayesian State Space Representation Model: Applications To Macroeconomics And International Finance, Hiroshi Morita

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation develops three new econometric models using Bayesian state space representation model in order to apply to macroeconomics and international finance. It consists of 3 chapters. Chapter 1 develops a Markov mixture model of macroeconomic fundamentals to analyze the short-run dynamics of foreign exchange rates. In our model, foreign exchange rates are simultaneously determined by three parities: the interest rate parity, the inflation rate parity, and the equity return rate parity. Using four exchange rates: the U.S. dollar price of the British pound, the German mark, the Japanese yen, and the Canadian dollar, the findings are: (1) Our model …


What Factors Determine Thesubsidiary Mode Of Overseas R&D By Developing-Country Mnes? Empirical Evidence From Chinese Subsidiaries Abroad, Yanyu Wang, Wei Xie, Jizhen Li, Chenxi Liu Feb 2018

What Factors Determine Thesubsidiary Mode Of Overseas R&D By Developing-Country Mnes? Empirical Evidence From Chinese Subsidiaries Abroad, Yanyu Wang, Wei Xie, Jizhen Li, Chenxi Liu

PhD Student’s Publications Collection

This study examines the determinants of the subsidiary modes of overseas research anddevelopment (R&D) by Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs). Based on resource-based view and absorptive capabilities, we propose that financial resources and technologi-cal resources have different effects on the selection of overseas R&D subsidiary modes,which are competence-exploiting mode or competence-creating mode. This is supportedby the empirical results in this paper using data from a survey of 40 Chinese overseasR&D subsidiaries. The results demonstrate that the parent firms with richer financialresources and more R&D expenses prefer the competence-exploiting mode, while the par-ent firms with more R&D personnel favor the competence-creating mode. …


Estimating Efficiency In A Spatial Autoregressive Stochastic Frontier Model, Levent Kutlu Feb 2018

Estimating Efficiency In A Spatial Autoregressive Stochastic Frontier Model, Levent Kutlu

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

The spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier model of Glass et al.(2016) is based on distributional assumptions on two-sided and one-sided error terms. After estimating the model parameters, the efficiency estimates need to be corrected due to the presence of spatial autoregressive term in their model. Glass et al.(2016) estimate the corrected efficiencies by employing ideas from a distribution-free method on the efficiency estimation, which may be sensitive to outliers. We propose an alternative way to correct efficiency estimates that is in line with the distribution-based methods.


A Distribution-Free Stochastic Frontier Model With Endogenous Regressors, Levent Kutlu Feb 2018

A Distribution-Free Stochastic Frontier Model With Endogenous Regressors, Levent Kutlu

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

We provide a guideline for estimating a distribution-free panel data stochastic frontier model in the presence of endogenous variables. In particular, we consider variations of the within estimator of Cornwell et al. (1990) to allow endogenous regressors.


Peer Influence On Payout Policies, Binay K. Adhikari, Anup Agrawal Feb 2018

Peer Influence On Payout Policies, Binay K. Adhikari, Anup Agrawal

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

Using a large sample of US public companies, we find robust evidence that firms’ payout policies, i.e., dividends and share repurchases, are significantly influenced by the policies of their industry peers. To overcome endogeneity problems, we employ instrumental variable techniques based on peers’ stock price shocks. Peer influence on payouts is more pronounced among firms that face greater product market competition and operate in better information environments. With regards to dividends, firms, especially smaller and younger firms, are more sensitive to industry peers that are similar to them in size and age. However, mimicking repurchases is concentrated among large and …


Thinking Finance - The Comic Book, Dimitrios V. Siskos Jan 2018

Thinking Finance - The Comic Book, Dimitrios V. Siskos

Publications

Thinking financially results in the best possible outcome and establishes a secure foundation for the future as an independent man. In contrast, thinking emotionally leads to short-sighted financial decisions and usually, deep regrets. However, thinking financially is not pleasant for the people around us. This comic book presents a guy, whose dream is to become an accountant. When he finally succeeds in this, he realizes that thinking financially may be effective for his boss but it is irritating for everyone else, even for his family.


Bank Net Interest Margins, The Yield Curve, And The 2007–2009 Financial Crisis, Peter V. Egly, David W. Johnk, Andre V. Mollick Jan 2018

Bank Net Interest Margins, The Yield Curve, And The 2007–2009 Financial Crisis, Peter V. Egly, David W. Johnk, Andre V. Mollick

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

Using quarterly call report data from 2000 to 2016, we reexamine the relationship between net interest margins (NIM) and the yield curve for more than 5,500 U.S. commercial banks. In the full sample, yield curve and RGDP growth have positive effects on NIM, while inflation and deposit‐to‐loan ratios (D/L) have negative effects. Splitting the sample around the 2007–2009 crisis, we show the impact of yield curve and RGDP growth on NIM increasing during the “recovery” (2009Q3 to 2016Q4), and inflation and D/L changing signs. Positive effects of yield curve on profits vary with bank size and change over time.


The Purloined Letters: A Collection Of Mail Robbery Reports From Ohio Papers, 1841-1850, Marc Cibella Jan 2018

The Purloined Letters: A Collection Of Mail Robbery Reports From Ohio Papers, 1841-1850, Marc Cibella

Nineteenth-Century Ohio Literature

Marc Cibella’s essay introduces and explains why nineteenth-century Americans got excited about newspaper reports of mail robbery.


The Economic Impact Of Natural Gas Capital Expenditures In West Virginia, Eric Bowen Jan 2018

The Economic Impact Of Natural Gas Capital Expenditures In West Virginia, Eric Bowen

Bureau of Business & Economic Research

No abstract provided.


Duratable Enterprises Inc., Spencer D. Evans, Hal B. Heaton Jan 2018

Duratable Enterprises Inc., Spencer D. Evans, Hal B. Heaton

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

In late 2017, DuraTable received a number of unsolicited inquiries regarding its interest in selling out in a going private transaction, mostly from private equity firms. Since the chairman of the board and founder, Gary Reynolds, was approaching retirement age and the largest single shareholder who had provided the seed capital to start the company was over 80 years old, Mr. Reynolds was willing to consider a sale and provided information to four or five of them to prepare bids. DuraTable was a closely held company with relatively few individuals holding the vast majority of shares. As such, DuraTable’s shares …


Rop Distribution, Anwar Shaikh Phd Jan 2018

Rop Distribution, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

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    Shaikh, A. (2018). NA-24-09. Department of Economics, New School for Social Research.This item is a folder cover label that marks research materials on historical asset returns and macroeconomic data.
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Resources, Financial Sector Development, Governance And Growth In South Africa: A Time Series Analysis, Kehinde Abiodun Jan 2018

Resources, Financial Sector Development, Governance And Growth In South Africa: A Time Series Analysis, Kehinde Abiodun

Masters Theses

We examine the impact of financial sector development - proxied by domestic credit and market capitalization - mineral rent, and quality of governance on economic growth in South Africa. The novelty of this thesis lies in the introduction of an interaction term between mineral rent and quality of governance, which is iterated along with the other afore-mentioned variables in a five-model estimation. Two other variables: trade and government expenditure are also added to the mix.

We developed five models to test the impacts of the different variables using the error correction model. In all five models, we find, consistently, a …


Three Essays On Insurance Asset Management, Xin Che Jan 2018

Three Essays On Insurance Asset Management, Xin Che

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The insurance industry manages a large amount of financial assets. In recent years, a growing number of investment companies are providing insurance asset management solutions, and the use of external asset management by the insurance industry is increasing over time. Therefore, understanding insurance asset management is important for academics and practitioners in both insurance and general finance. In the first essay, we investigate industrial portfolio tilt (referred to as “industry bias”) in the U.S. property liability insurers’ comstock portfolios. We find that U.S. property-liability insurers exhibit a negative industry bias by tilting their portfolios away from their own industry. We …