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Indebtedness And Subjective Financial Wellbeing Of Households In Indonesia, Dwini Handayani

Economics and Finance in Indonesia

Indebtedness is an element to foresee household financial wellbeing. This vulnerability could be determined objectively and subjectively. Objective financial vulnerability is the objective ability to make ends meet that is analyzed using household income and characteristics. Measurement in subjective welbeing is determined by household perceptions in their ability to make ends meet. Household behavior with different perceptions will behave differently. Indebtedness is analyzed using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) 5 with the Ordinary Least Square method. The inferential shows that both objective and subjective financial wellbeing influence household indebtedness. Kedalaman hutang merupakan elemen untuk mengetahui kesejahteraan finansial rumah tangga. …

Local Investment And The Relationship Between Prices And Earnings, Michael Hyman

Dissertations - ALL

This paper examines how local stock ownership influences the relationship between stock prices and future earnings. Prior finance literature has found that local investment leads to superior returns and has suggested that these returns are a result of an informational edge for those who invest locally. However, the literature has yet to examine which types of information local investors have access to and how that impacts the informativeness of stock prices. This paper shows that local investors have access to earnings-relevant information which results in stock prices which better lead future earnings for companies with larger local ownership bases. This …

Lumpy Investment, Lumpy Inventories, Ruediger Bachmann, Lin Ma

Research Collection School Of Economics

The link between the microenvironment (frictions and heterogeneity) and the macroeconomic dynamics of general equilibrium macromodels is influenced by exactly how general equilibrium closes the model. We make this observation concrete using the recent literature on how nonconvex capital adjustment costs influence aggregate investment dynamics. We introduce inventories into a two-sector lumpy investment model and find that nonconvex capital adjustment costs dampen and propagate investment impulse responses, more so than without inventories. With two means of transferring consumption into the future, fixed capital and inventories, the tight link between aggregate saving and fixed capital investment is broken.

2015 Statistical Bulletin: Domestic Production, Consumption And Prices, Central Bank Of Nigeria

CBN Statistical Bulletin

Statistics of Gross Domestic Product and Expenditure at current Purchaser's prices for the year 2015.

The Role Of Central Banks In Assisting Regional Economic Policy Making, Randall W. Eberts

Presentations

No abstract provided.

An Event Study Of Patent Verdicts And Judicial Leakage, Bryan Engelhardt, Zachary Fernandes

Economics Department Working Papers

To check for the impartiality of the United States judicial system, we investigate whether judicial decisions are leaked prior to their public release. Utilizing an event study methodology, we test for leaked information by analyzing the effect of patent infringement verdicts on the stock prices of the firms involved before and after the public release of the verdict. We find evidence that at least some of the decisions are leaked prior to their public release.

The Integrity Of Financial Analysts: Evidence From Asymmetric Responses To Earnings Surprises, Rui Lu, Wenxuan Hou, Henry Oppenheimer, Ting Zhang

Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

This paper investigates the integrity of financial analysts by examining their recommendation responses to large quarterly earnings surprises. Although there is no significant difference in recommendation changes between affiliated and unaffiliated analysts in response to positive earnings surprises, affiliated analysts are more reluctant than unaffiliated analysts to downgrade stock recommendations in response to negative earnings surprises. The evidence implies that conflicts of interest undermine the integrity of financial analysts. We further examine the effects of reputation concern and the Global Research Analyst Settlement as informal and formal mechanisms, on restoring analysts’ integrity. The results show that the positive bias in …

Mexico Consensus Economic Forecast, Volume 19, Number 3, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Adam G. Walke

Border Region Modeling Project

No abstract provided.

Institutional Ownership Stability And Real Earnings Management, Hamid Sakaki, Dave Jackson, Surendranath Jory

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

We examine the relationship between institutional ownership stability and real earnings management. Our findings indicate that firms held by more stable institutional owners experience lower real activities manipulation by limiting overproduction. We further examine how the stability in the shareholdings of pressure-sensitive and insensitive institutional investors affect target firms’ use of real earnings management, respectively. Unlike pressure-sensitive institutional investors, the stability in the share ownership of pressure-insensitive institutional investors (i.e., investment advisors, pension funds and endowments) mitigates target firms’ use of real earnings management. Overall, our results are consistent with the view that institutional investors presence acts as a monitor …

Long-Run Equilibrium Shift And Short-Run Dynamics Of U.S. Home Price Tiers During The Housing Bubble, Damian S. Damianov, Diego Escobari

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

We use vector error correction models to examine the interdependence between the high and the low price tiers during the latest housing market boom and bust. For 118 of the 364 US statistical areas analyzed, the tiered price indexes are bound by a long-run relationship. In general, low tier homes appreciated more than high tier homes in the past two decades. In contrast to previous periods of high volatility, however, low tier homes appreciated more during the boom and lost more value during the bust of the market. We find a shift in the long-run equilibrium during the bubble —the …

Reducing Asymmetric Information In Venture Capital Backed Ipos, Diego Escobari, Alejandro Serrano

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to model asymmetric information and study the profitability of venture capital (VC) backed initial public offerings (IPOs). The mixtures approach endogenously separates IPOs into differentiated groups based on their returns’ determinants. The authors also analyze the factors that affect the probability that IPOs belong to a specific group.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors propose a new method to model asymmetric information between investors and firms in VC backed IPOs. The approach allows the authors to identify differentiated companies under incomplete information. The authors use a sample of 2,404 US firms from 1980 through 2012 to …

"Gravity Models" Applied To Projections For New Casinos: Techniques And Results, Will E. Cummings

International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking

All developers of new casinos prepare, or have prepared for them, projections for the likely gaming-revenue performance of those casinos; in many cases; regulatory authorities in North America also require or commission independent third-party assessments of such performance. These projections are very frequently based on "gravity models," applying techniques pioneered by Reilly and Huff to analyze other retail activities in relation to the geographic distribution of competitors and potential customers. In this paper, I review roughly 80 examples of such applications from recent casino-licensing procedures in the U.S., and compare their results.

Self-Correcting Kelly Strategies For Skeptical Traders, Aaron C. Brown

International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking

The Kelly criterion gives the appropriate bet size in idealized situations with known parameters. In financial trading situations parameters are generally unknown and the mathematical assumptions underlying the Kelly proof are not met precisely. Moreover a risk manager typically must cooperate with a trader who may be skeptical about both the Kelly criterion specifically and the concept of mathematical optimization of bet size in general.

This presentation tackles the problem of designing a Kelly-based system for setting trade risk management parameters that is both self-correcting (the system delivers good results even if initial parameter are misestimated or parameters change) and …

الملكية والدولة الاقتصاد المتناغم أم المتناقض…؟ العراق انموذجا مع اشارة لبعض الدول مقارنة للمدة 2003-2014, غسان طارق ظاهر

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تواجه الاقتصادات النامية ضغوطا على الانفاق التشغيلي، لتلبية متطلبات البنية التحتية العامة فضلا عن ان قيود التمويل في هذه البلدان أكثر حدة منها في الاقتصادات المتقدمة، مما يجعلها عرضة لعجز دائم في موازناتها العامة، لذا دعت المنظمات الدولية الدول النامية الى ضبط الانفاق العام واحترام الحدود الموضوعة للضرائب والاقتراض بما يتناغم مع الية الرأسمالية الجديدة، فقد فرضت معاهدة الاستقرار والنمو التي عقدها الاتحاد الاوروبي “على جميع الاقتصادات غنية كانت أم فقيرة، أن توزع مواردها المحدودة بين احتياجاتها المتنافسة بما يحقق التوازن بين الاستثمار المادي والاستثمار في رأس المال البشري كالتعليم والرعاية الصحية والقطاعات الاجتماعية الاخرى مع التأكد من كفاية الموارد …

فرض الاستمرارية وإمكانية استخدام بعض المؤشرات المالية للإبلاغ عن التعثر المالي في الشركات العامة “دراسة تطبيقية في الشركة العامة للإسمنت الجنوبية”, علي عباس كريم

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يعتبر فرض الاستمرارية أحد الفروض الأساسية في إعداد القوائم المالية. ويعني فرض الاستمرارية النظر إلى المنشاة على أنها مستمرة في مزاولة نشاطها في المستقبل القريب، وان المنشاة ليست مضطرة-كما لا يوجد لديها النية_ لتصفية او تقليص حجم أعمالها أو البحث عن وسائل للحماية من الدائنين بما يتوافق مع القوانين أو اللوائح. ويجب على المراقب دراسة مدى ملائمة تطبيق الإدارة لفرض الاستمرارية عند إعداد القوائم المالية، مع مراعاة انه إذا كان هناك شك كبير في قدرة المنشاة على الاستمرارية ان يتم الإفصاح عن ذلك في القوائم المالية .وقد جاءت هذه الدراسة لتسلط الضوء على الإلية التي يجب ان يعتمد عليها مراقب …

Daniel Defoe’S Literary Economies: The Shifting Role Of Narrative Uncertainty, Speculation, And Providence In Robinson Crusoe And Roxana., Terese J. Swords

Lawrence University Honors Projects

In my honors project, I analyze how Daniel Defoe’s first novel, Robinson Crusoe (1719), and his last, Roxana (1724), offer shifting economic commentary regarding England’s emerging 18^th century credit economy. This shift does not come as too much of a surprise, as his first and last novel straddle the historic moment of the South Sea Bubble’s burst. Therefore, Defoe’s works, when analyzed sequentially, capture the evolving attitude towards value and credit that was occurring throughout all of England.

In my first chapter, “Crusoe’s Post Facto Journal Editing: ‘How wonderfully we are delivered when we are aware of it,’” I …

دور المقارنة المرجعية الداخلية في تشخيص فجوة الأداء والتحسين المستمر ( دراسة حالة في معهد الإدارة / الرصافة ), يوسف دولاب يوسف

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

في ظل التطور السريع لمستوى التعليم تسعى المنظمات التعليمية لتحسين أدائها من اجل البقاء وتحقيق الميزة التنافسية وهذا ما دفعها الى اعتماد وتطبيق معايير للأداء التعليمي لضمان الجودة للحصول على الاعتماد الاكاديمي، وهنا تبرز الحاجة الى اعتماد أساليب وتطبيقات ادارية حديثة ومنها أسلوب المقارنة المرجعية بوصفه احد الأدوات المهمة في قياس وتحديد فجوة الأداء ومن ثم اعتماد عجلة الجودة لإجراء التحسينات التدريجية المستمرة لتقليص الفجوة أو ردمها ، وينبغي على المنظمة التعليمية اعادة اجراء المقارنة المرجعية وتقويم التحسينات باستمرار للوقوف على مدى التقدم الذي احرزته. وقد توصل البحث الى مجموعة من الاستنتاجات كان أهمها الآتي:اثبتت نتائج البحث ضعف التزام الاقسام …

Overview Of Development Financing: The Case Of Central Bank Of Nigeria, M. A. Olaitan

Bullion

This study highlighted the functions of Central Bank under development finance and economic development, and it also went further to state the mandate of the development finance Department which is the development and implementation of policies, programmes and schemes aimed at the effective, efficient and sustainable delivery of financial services to the real sector of the Nigerian economy. The objective of the mandate are to increase the flow of financial resources to the real sector, create wealth and jobs, reduce poverty and so on.

The Place Of Collateral Registry In Credit Delivery Services, Muhammad Mainasara

Bullion

Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are the main engines of economic growth. The sub-sector constitutes on integral part of the economy, providing products and services to Nigeria's teeming population, yet they are grossly underfunded. The huge financing gap, which characterized the MSMES, inhibits their development, thus having a telling effect on the economy.

أثر العمق المالي و معدل سعر الصرف على التضخم في العراق للمدة (1970- 2014 ), حيدر عباس دريبي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تهدف الدراسة لبيان اثر العمق المالي مقاسا ب ومعدل سعر صرف الدينار العراقي مقابل الدولار الامريكي على معدل التضخم في العراق للمدة (1970-2014). من جهة اخرى استخدمت طريقة Engle-Granger ذات الخطوتين وطريقة Johanson and Juselius لاختبار التكامل المشترك بين المتغيرات، ولتحديد اتجاه العلاقة السببية في الاجلين القصير والطويل بين المتغيرات أستخدم نموذج تصحيح الخطأ VECM. النتائج اشارت الى وجود تكامل مشترك بين العمق المالي وبين معدل التضخم وكذلك بين معدل سعر الصرف و معدل التضخم، وان هناك علاقة سببية تتجه من العمق المالي ومعدل سعر الصرف الى معدل التضخم في الاجلين القصير والطويل. وعليه، يجب التحكم في عرض النقود وايجاد …