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The Gettysburg Economic Review, Volume 8, Spring 2015

Gettysburg Economic Review

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Nominal Gdp Targeting: A Policy Recommendation To Meet The Fed’S Dual Mandate, R. Shaw Bridges

Gettysburg Economic Review

This paper was written in early December 2014 in response to the Federal Reserve Challenge Team’s argument for a regime change in the Federal Reserve to nominal GDP targeting as the appropriate policy to return the U.S. economy to long-term sustainable economic growth. After the 2007 recession, the FOMC took extraordinary measures to minimize the collateral damage caused by bank balance sheets weighed down with mortgage-backed securities and other below-investment grade assets. The periodic “stress tests” and use of emergency lending facilities were historically unprecedented, however, the economy six years later was still growing slowly in part due to market …

The Cost Of Float To A Firm: Commercial Banking Treasury Management Analysis Case Study, Patricia R. Robertson

Faculty Articles

This case is ideal for an upper-level finance course that has an emphasis on short-term financial management. Despite significant advancements in electronic payment systems, most U.S. firms continue to pay invoices with paper checks mailed to suppliers. So long as the checks are received by the due date, firms are in compliance with supplier credit terms. However, paper checks must be processed and recorded by the supplier, deposited in the supplier’s bank, and cleared against the payer’s bank before the cash is transferred from the payer’s checking account to the supplier’s checking account. This delay in the conversion of a …

Mortgage Crisis: Exploring Incentives Prevalent During The Boom And Bust Of The 2001–2007 Mortgage Market, Justin P. Nowicki

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this thesis is to explain the mortgage market's behavior from 2001 through the first quarter of 2007 by discussing the economic incentives key market participants faced. By exploring incentives faced by key participants, a multifaceted yet logical explanation for the aggressive economic expansion and contraction appears. Throughout this paper I argue that the simultaneous acting upon of such incentives was fundamental to the market behavior and that the actions of each participant are, for the most part, understandable given the incentives that each faced. The paper will describe the monetary and cultural incentives underlying this behavior and …

The Evolution Of The Federal Reserve's Mandate In Response To The Global Financial Crisis: The Case For Financial Stability, Laurel Celastine Mazur

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis looks at the evolution of the Federal Reserve’s mandate and regulatory responsibilities as a result of the Global Financial Crisis. The onset of the crisis exposed the financial system to risks that had yet to be identified by the traditional microprudential regulatory framework, necessitating a rapid and unconventional response in order to prevent widespread financial collapse. Now, in 2015, as most of the scourges of the crisis are in the recent past, practitioners are beginning to not only pick up the pieces but attempting to reform the system to increase resilience in the future. One of the proposals …

A Comment On Christofferson, Jacobs, And Ornthanalia (2012), "Dynamic Jump Intensities And Risk Premiums: Evidence From S&P 500 Returns And Options", Garland Durham, John Geweke, Pulak Ghosh

Finance

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Nova Southeastern University 2015 Annual Report, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Annual Reports

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تأثير المزيج الترويجي للخدمات المصرفية في تحقيق رضا الزبون دراسة تحليلية لأراء عينة من الزبائن في بعض المصارف الاهلية في مدينة الديوانية, حيدر حمزه صالح

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

لقد تناول البحث الحالي احد العناصر الاساسية والحيوية في العمل التسويقي للمنظمات المصرفية من خلال استعراض احد الانشطة المهمة والمؤثرة في تحقيق اهدافها التسويقية والمتمثل بالمزيج الترويجي الذي يشتمل على خمسة متغيرات هي ( الاعلان، البيع الشخصي، تنشيط المبيعات، العلاقات العامة والنشر) وهدف البحث الى دراسة واقع المزيج الترويجي في المصارف الاهلية . واعتمد البحث جمع البيانات من عينة شملت (5) مصارف اهلية في مدينة الديوانية ، ولتحقيق هدف البحث قام الباحث بتوزيع استبانة عدت لهذا الغرض على مجتمع البحث المكون من الزبائن التابعة لهذه المصارف وشملت (78 ) زبون. وفي ضوء دلك جرى جمع و تحليل البيانات و اختيار …

Three Essays On Bond Trading, Brittany Cole

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In Part 1, we study the impact of bond exchange listing in the US publicly traded corporate bond market. Overall, we find that listed corporate bonds have lower bid-ask spreads than unlisted corporate bonds. We specifically show that listed bond spreads are $0.14 lower than unlisted bond spreads. We find that execution venue matters for listed bonds, and that listed bond trades that execute on the NYSE have higher trading costs than listed bond trades that execute off-NYSE. We show that listed bonds are more volatile than unlisted bonds. Lastly, we study bond trading around earnings announcements. We find no …

Three Essays On Financial Econometrics, Jiang Liang

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

This dissertation develops several econometric techniques to address three issues in financial economics, namely, constructing a real estate price index, estimating structural break points, and estimating integrated variance in the presence of market microstructure noise and the corresponding microstructure noise function. Chapter 2 develops a new methodology for constructing a real estate price index that utilizes all transaction price information, encompassing both single-sales and repeat-sales. The method is less susceptible to specification error than standard hedonic methods and is not subject to the sample selection bias involved in indexes that rely only on repeat sales. The methodology employs a model …

Essays On High-Frequency Financial Data Analysis, Yingjie Dong

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

This dissertation consists of three essays on high-frequency financial data analysis. I consider intraday periodicity adjustment and its effect on intraday volatility estimation, the Business Time Sampling (BTS) scheme and the estimation of market microstructure noise using NYSE tick-by-tick transaction data. Chapter 2 studies two methods of adjusting for intraday periodicity of highfrequency financial data: the well-known Duration Adjustment (DA) method and the recently proposed Time Transformation (TT) method (Wu (2012)). I examine the effects of these adjustments on the estimation of intraday volatility using the Autoregressive Conditional Duration-Integrated Conditional Variance (ACD-ICV) method of Tse and Yang (2012). I find …

إشكالية العلاقة بين التنمية الاقتصادية وعدم الاستقرار السياسي في البلاد النامية (العراق أنموذجا), رشيد باني الظالمي, غسان طارق ظاهر

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تناول موضوع البحث إثبات العلاقة القوية بين مشاريع التنمية والوضع السياسي في أي بلد. إن البلدان التي تعيش استقرارا سياسياً يمكنها أن تطبق برامج تنموية ناجحة، أما البلدان التي تعيش فوضى سياسية فإن مشاريعها التنموية سوف يصيبها الفشل وهذا ما تم إثباته في العراق من خلال البحث.منذ تأسيس الدولة العراقية والانقلابات العسكرية والحرب الأهلية لم تعرف الركود، وكانت فترة الحرب العراقية الإيرانية وحرب الكويت حتى هذا اليوم من أسوء الفترات التي عاشها المجتمع العراقي. إن عدم الاستقرار السياسي في العراق يعني غياب القانون وفوضى الأمن وتبديد الثروة، وهجرة أصحاب رؤوس الأموال، وكذلك يعني كما جاء في البحث غياب الخطط والبرامج …

التمكين النفسي: ثروة لتعزيز السلوك الريادي دراسة تحليلية لآراء عينة من تدريسي جامعة المثنى, كمال كاظم طاهر الحسني

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تهدف الدراسة الى تمييز الدور الذي يمارسه التمكين النفسي في السلوك الريادي . تضمن التمكين النفسي اربعة ابعاد هي : المقدرة، المعنى، الكفاءة الذاتية والاثر. تمثلت عينة الدراسة بـ (80) تدريسي في ثلاث كليات في جامعة المثنى . اظهرت نتائج الدراسة وجود مستوى جيد من التمكين النفسي المدرك من قبل عينة الدارسة في كل الكليات المبحوثة وكانت القيمة العليا للتأثير ، المقدرة ، المعنى والاستقلالية . السلوك الريادي ايضا بلغ مستوى عالي للمتوسط الحسابي . اما اهم الاستنتاجات التي توصلت لها الدراسة هو وجود تأثير مهم للتمكين النفسي على السلوك الريادي .

The Reality Of Human Development In Iraq And Ways Of Treatment With An Indication Of Service Of Reality Environmental And, Haider Talib Musa

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

The human development the subject at the present time is one of the most important topics of concern to the community in any part of the world delayed human development efforts and lack of interest in singling does not affect them, but it also affects the march of an entire people and restrain progress, pushing for the dependence of policies and programs that are correct and rational to draw conclusions and recommendations Scientific efforts to promote and develop human development success of any society and its development depends basis primarily on the individual development of )healthy،educational subsistence(. interest in these …

أثر ضبابية المعلومات المالية في جودة القرارات الإدارية (نموذج مقترح في ظلِّ دراسة حالة عملية), عباس نوار كحيط الموسوي, أسماء حسين علي الموسوي

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

تَعمَلُ المعلوماتُ المحاسبيةُ المتوفرةُ عَنْ الفرصِ في مواطنِ اتخاذ القرارات على تعزيزِ موقف متخذي القرارات الإدارية ليتمكنوا مِنْ الاستفادةِ مِنَ المعلوماتِ عَنْ الفرصِ المتوافرةِ في حالةِ تعدد طرائق التقييم وتعارض نتائجها, فعندَ إعداد الموازنات الاستثمارية مثلاً, توجد عدة طرائق لتقييم المشاريع، وإنَّ كلًّ مِنْ هذهِ الطرائق يوصل إلى نتيجة تبينَ أنَّ مشروعاً ما هو الأفضل مِنْ بينِ المشاريع الأخرى, أي إنَّ كلًّ مِنْ هذهِ الطرائق تعطي نتيجة مخالفة لنتيجة الطريقة الأخرى، وهذا ما يُعرَفُ بـ النظرية الضبابية (Fuzzy Theory), إذْ تَحصلُ الضبابية في حالةِ نقص المعلومات وعدم وضوحها ولاسيما المعلومات المالية, إذْ أنَّ هذهِ النظرية توفر أكبر استفادة ممكنة مِنَ …

Reverse Line Movements In Nfl Gambling: Parallels To Financial Market Biases And The Imitation Of Informed Bettor Strategies, Philip S. Crawford

CMC Senior Theses

Participants in the NFL gambling market can largely be divided into two distinct groups: informed bettors (“Sharps”) and uninformed bettors (“Squares”). Empirical and anecdotal evidence suggest that the dynamic between Sharp and Square bettors is very similar to that between institutional and retail investors. Professionals tend to be far better informed and utilize rational betting/investing strategies while individuals exhibit biases which perpetuate irrational strategies and therefore pricing inefficiencies. This study finds that uninformed participants in financial markets and the NFL betting market do share similar biases, and that these biases can be exploited by informed participants to generate positive excess …

Promoting Bold Investment In Renewable Energy Research And Development, Melanie C. Paty

CMC Senior Theses

This thesis discusses the potential for private investment to fund ambitious renewable energy research and development to help mitigate climate change. I begin by discussing the threat of global warming and a brief history of renewable energy development in the United States. Next, I discuss existing avenues for private investment in renewable energy, potential methods of increasing corporate participation, and the belief that businesses must maximize only financial profits. Then I perform an in-depth case study of pension funds that have incorporated a social or environmental mission, existing environmentally focused mutual funds, and liquidated clean energy mutual funds. Finally, I …

Sustainable Microfinancing: Improving Microenterprise's Traditional Measures Of Success, Stephen R. Watson

Graduate Research Papers

Microfinance has over three decades of experience serving the needs of the poor on earth. Unfortunately, academia and the secular world are divided on its effectiveness to lift the impoverished from the bottom of the economic pyramid. India is the focus of this paper, but measures of microfinace success are essentially universal. This paper examines the metrics used to evaluate programs and their benefit to India's poor. Current estimates find 2.8 billion people survive on less than $2 per day. Subsistence living impacts nutrition, shelter, sanitation, transportation and access to healthcare and education. India's caste system creates discrimination and overpopulation …

Stock Market Theories, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Stock market theories folder notes by Anwar Shaikh, PhD (23-34_Stoc... p. 1)
• Interest rate nominal & real manuscript notes by Anwar Shaikh, PhD (23-34_Stoc... p. 4)
• Interest rates & inflation manuscript notes by Anwar Shaikh, PhD (23-34_Stoc... pp. 6, 9)
• Capitalism: real competition, turbulent dynamics, and global crises book outline and draft chapters by Anwar Shaikh, PhD (23-34_Stoc... pp. 11-12, 14, 16, 19)
• The new palgrave: a dictionary of economics excerpt by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman (23-34_Stoc... p. 29)
• Warranted price-earnings ratio charts and notes by Anwar Shaikh, PhD (23-34_Stoc... p. 42)
• Faculty course …

Three Essays On Merger Outcomes: Corporate Strategy, Bargaining Power, And Valuation Waves, Stephen N. Jurich

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation consists of three essays on merger outcomes. In the first essay I classify mergers as value-increasing, neutral, or value-decreasing by measuring the change in the combined wealth of acquiring- and target-firm shareholders at the merger announcement date. I then test the role that strategic objectives and negotiation procedures play in driving value-increasing mergers. The results indicate that geographic expansion creates the largest combined increase in wealth. One-on-one negotiations correspond to greater increases in combined wealth, when compared to mergers that begin with auctions, third-party bids, or mutual discussions. The results of my study support both the strategic-alignment and …