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Huang, Zhangkai. "Finance, investment and monetary policy." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270515.

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Studart, Rogério. "Investment finance in economic development /." London ; New York : Routledge, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37460424c.

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Hayes, Mark Gerard. "Investment and finance under fundamental uncertainty." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275518.

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Ahmed, Mohamed Ahmed Shaker. "Essays in behavioural finance and investment." Thesis, Brunel University, 2017. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/14882.

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This thesis is an attempt to bridge some research gaps in the area of behavioural finance and investment through adopting the three essays scheme of PhD dissertations. There is a widespread belief that the traditional finance theory failed to provide a sufficient and plausible explanation for (1) what motivates individual investors to trade, (2) the pattern of their trading and the formation of their portfolios, (3) the determinants of cross section of expected returns other than risk. Behavioural Finance, however, offers more realistic assumptions based on two building blocks; behavioural bia

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Vasileva, Kristina. "Foreign direct investment : a behavioural finance approach." Thesis, City University London, 2011. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/1185/.

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The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of corporate decision making regarding foreign direct investments (FDI) by applying two behavioural finance concepts, home bias and herding, to the analysis of FDI flows. I contribute to the literature by empirically testing for home bias and herding in an FDI context using a very broad panel dataset. I also contribute by examining the country policy implications of home bias on FDI flows between two countries by estimating the probability of an FDI relationship between two countries. In addition, I contribute by providing a generali

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Zhong, Yifei. "Essays on optimal investment in mathematical finance." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.556117.

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This thesis comprises four essays on optimal investment in mathematical finance. The first two are concerned with optimal stock buying/selling w.r.t. its global maximum (minimum). We first aim to determine an optimal selling time so as to minimize the expectation of the square error between the selling price and the global maximum. Then, we formulate four stock buying/selling problems by minimizing/maximizing the expectation of the ratio of the buying/selling price to the global maximum (minimum) price. These are optimal stopping problems that can be formulated as variational inequality proble

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Merdad, Hesham J. "Two Essays in Islamic Finance and Investment." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1467.

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The main purpose of this dissertation is to lessen the gap in the Islamic finance and investment literature by providing new answers to the most vital question raised in that literature: Is the adherence to the Shariah law associated with at any cost? The first chapter provides a primer on Islamic finance. It discusses several restrictions and necessary adaptations that must be made to have a Shariah-compliant product. The takeaway is that Shariah law mandates is related to fundamentals and, thus has a direct effect on the risk-return profile of all sorts of different products. This is referre

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Todorovic, Natasa. "Equity investment styles." Thesis, City University London, 2001. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/8399/.

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The aim of this thesis is to investigate the nature of determinants of equity returns as suggested by the CAPM model, in particular, alphas, betas and equity premium and to outline implications for investment managers that statistical and structural analysis of the aforementioned variables may suggest. The thesis contributes to the existing literature in the following areas. First, it addresses the question of predictive power of historical risk-adjusted portfolio performance measures on determining future equity returns in short and long term hoirsons. Second, it investigates the stability of

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Colombo, Jéfferson Augusto. "Essays in empirical corporate finance and macro-finance." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/158172.

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Esta tese é composta de três ensaios empíricos sobre finanças corporativas e macrofinanças, todos eles aplicados ao Brasil. O primeiro mostra como uma mudanças tributárias no nível do acionista podem afetar as decisões financeiras das empresas investidas, através da estrutura de propriedade. Os resultados sugerem que as empresas ajustam suas políticas financeiras para minimizar os gastos tributários totais (nível do acionista mais nível da firma). No segundo artigo, analisa-se a relação entre o investimento estrangeiro em carteira (EFPI) e o investimento agregado brasileiro. Os resultados most

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Herbert, Wilson Eziefule. "New forms of international investment : a study of alternative strategies to foreign investment." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1992. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6611/.

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This study is concerned with recent developments in international investment and the theory of the firm. The proposition that markets and hierarchies are alternative governance structures for completing related sets of transactions is less contentious. However, the view that foreign direct investment is the most efficient governance structure, in transaction-cost economizing terms, remains controversial. This research identifies with this contention. The premise of the study is that the governance structure of foreign transactions cannot be confined to or decided within the framework of hierar

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Barclay, Lou Anne. "Foreign investment in the Caribbean : multinational enterprise motivation, investment behaviour and corporate strategy." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1998. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4257/.

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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is playing an increasingly important role in the economies of many less industrialised countries. The Caribbean, specifically Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad-Tobago are excellent examples of this phenomenon. The increased dependence of these countries on FDI calls to question the attractiveness of their business environment to the foreign investor. This study aims to provide answers to this research question. To this end, it examines the factors that influence the motivations, locational choices and market entry mode of multinational enterprises making investment

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Affleck, Arthur. "Community development finance : a form of social investment." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2011. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/3089/.

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This thesis aims to critically examine the development of Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) in the UK: organisations that lend to businesses unable to access finance from mainstream sources. The overall aim of the research is to capture the development of a proto-type sector into a recognisable and fully-fledged financial sector. The research found there was considerable interest in CDFIs in the late 1990s fuelled by research reports published by the New Economics Foundation. Ideas and influences were being transferred to the UK from North American CDFIs and from micro-finance

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Wang, Zhixiao. "Essays in corporate investment and finance in China." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30699/.

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This thesis extends the literature by adding new empirical evidence associated with firm’s decisions in fixed investment and capital structure, under the assumption of capital market imperfection. In Chapter 2, we combine a panel of over 95,000 Chinese manufacturing firms of different ownership types over the period 2000-2007 with the Marketization Index for China’s provinces during the same period and investigate whether or not, and how, the cross-regional differences in institutions and financial development can affect the firm level financing constraints. Our main results indicate that inst

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Muchinguri, Tawanda. "Investment Promotion; Foreign Direct Investment Determinants and Policy Framework Analysis for India: Lessons for Zimbabwe." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28389.

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Today Zimbabwe finds itself on the cusp of a new era, an inflection point which should set the country on a path towards recovery and sustainable economic growth, after years of being in a socio-economic quagmire yet extravagantly endowed with natural resources and extraordinary human capital. This study seeks to examine how best to unlock this untapped and embedded value for the emancipation of Zimbabwe’s people by looking at how other countries have extricated themselves from similar situations by the use of foreign direct investment. Pursuant to this cause, the author identified India as a

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Sairafi, Kamran, Karl Selleby, and Thom Ståhl. "Behavioral Finance : The Student Investor." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Administration, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-1500.

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<p>Bachelor thesis within Business Administration</p><p>Title: Behavioral Finance – The Student Perspective</p><p>Authors: Kamran Sairafi, Karl Selleby, Thom Ståhl</p><p>Tutor: Urban Österlund</p><p>Date: 2008-05-30</p><p>Background: History is full of examples on how humans can create investment</p><p>bubbles through speculation; from the Dutch tulip mania to the</p><p>Dot Com bubble humans have proven to be capable of creating</p><p>economical chaos. Classical economical theories hold the assumption</p><p>that individuals act rationally regarding decisions of an</p><p>economical nature. Sinc

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Moschetti, Gian Piero Philip. "Essays in applied finance." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326640.

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Klopfenstein, Ashley. "Investment Income in Life Insurance." Marietta College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1588419641715527.

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Luvhengo, victor. "Public pension funds and socially responsible investment in South Africa: a case study of the Public Investment Corporation." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29012.

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Socially responsible investment (SRI) and now commonly known as sustainable responsible investment is starting to gain a momentum in South Africa among asset owners and managers. Of a particular interest is that the leading public pension fund manager, the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) which invests on behalf of the Government Employee Pension Fund (GEPF) has a significant interest in driving this phenomenon in South Africa. In actual fact, GEPF was the first public asset owner in South Africa to subscribe to the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment in 2006. This is not su

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Oschlies, Melanie Katharina. "A Behavioral Finance Perspective on Sustainable Energy Investment Decisions." St. Gallen, 2007. http://www.biblio.unisg.ch/org/biblio/edoc.nsf/wwwDisplayIdentifier/02607455002/$FILE/02607455002.pdf.

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UGHETTO, Elisa. "Finance and innovation : essays on credit, investment and regulation." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Bergamo, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10446/58.

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Friedl, Gunther. "Real options and investment incentives." Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2007. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10161175.

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Nxumalo, Londa Selloane. "A fusion of charity and commercial investment principles to maximise social investment in South Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27403.

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South Africa faces a raft of social problems, the enormity of which make it impossible for the government to tackle alone. This has necessitated private sector involvement through socially responsible investments (SRI) and charity. Despite the growth of the SRI industry and years of charitable contributions, social investment into the high-impact areas that need it most remains far too low. This study seeks to understand what is holding back social investment, and how to address this. Using grounded theory methodology, the research finds that traditional SRI investors are inappropriate sources

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Nguyen, K. (Kim). "Time series risk factors of hedge fund investment objectives." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2013. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201311211905.

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In this thesis, I find eight common time series risk factors among all hedge fund investment objectives, including: equity market factor, equity size spread factor, bond credit spread factor, emerging market factor, equity trend following factor, Fama-French value factor, time series momentum factor and currency risk factor. The selected statistical model constructed from the eight risk factors provides higher adjusted R squared and lower pricing errors than Fung-Hsieh model. In addition, I find that small hedge funds outperform large funds with alpha spread of 3.43 percent annually.

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Gold, Martin Lionel. "Fiduciary finance and the pricing of financial claims a conceptual approach to investment /." Access electronically, 2007. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20070927.131807/index.html.

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Al-Motairi, Hessah. "Models for investment capacity expansion." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2011. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/232/.

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The objective of this thesis is to develop and analyse two stochastic control problems arising in the context of investment capacity expansion. In both problems the underlying market ﬂuctuations are modelled by a geometric Brownian motion. The decision maker’s aim is to determine admissible capacity expansion strategies that maximise appropriate expected present-value performance criteria. In the ﬁrst model, capacity expansion has price/demand impact and involves proportional costs. The resulting optimisation problem takes the form of a singular stochastic control problem. In the second model,

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Zhang, Yu. "Three Essays on Household Life-Cycle Investment Decisions." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1532090430374447.

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Yang, Pei. "Essays on the theory of investment subsidy." Thesis, University of Essex, 2016. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/17869/.

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In this thesis, we investigate a firm's investment timing decision and choice of market entry mode under uncertainty and irreversibility. We investigate how a host country can affect the firm's investment decisions through providing investment incentives. The real options approach to valuation is applied, and three main theoretical contributions are provided in this thesis. First, we derive the optimal form of subsidy package and find that the optimal subsidy package should always compensate the firm for giving up the investment opportunity and making the investment immediately. By making a tr

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Barwick-Barrett, Matthew. "The performance of socially responsible investment portfolios." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2015. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/77707/.

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A recent trends report estimates that the total value of US-domiciled assets under management using socially responsible investment (SRI) strategies is $6.57 trillion. This represents more than one out of every six dollars under professional management in the United States (Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment, 2014). In Europe, a recent report by the European Sustainable Investment Forum reports that the total value of European assets under management using SRI strategies is in excess of €6.9 trillion (Eurosif, 2014). Consequently, the importance of SRI to financial practitioners

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Yläinen, E. (Emilia). "Evaluation of alternative capital investment projects:authoring a fictional teaching case." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201706062569.

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The aim of this thesis is to create a framework to analyze capital investment projects. The teaching case was designed as a byproduct of this thesis which is targeted to be used as a teaching material in a university level investment management course. The goal of the fictive teaching case is to encourage students to become enthusiastic about making investment decisions and in all challenge the process. The case should help students to generally observe problems around investment decision-making, and make it easier to analyze investment projects. This thesis presents a solution approach to con

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Anastasov, Martin Anastasov. "Modelling investment strategies : Bayesian learning, regime switches and evolutionary finance." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10149/.

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In this research project we endeavour to model a financial marketplace dominated by a few interacting large institutional investors and draw conclusions about the financial market dynamics that this interaction gives rise to. More specifically, we study the problem of institutional investors, such as pension funds and life assurance companies, which operate in an environment of uncertain cash inflows and uncertain payouts with a minimum threshold. Investment strategies are taken as model primitives and an artificial financial market is populated by multiple investor types. Trading and investme

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Yu, Jingbo. "Essays on Corporate Finance." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/405229.

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Business Administration/Finance<br>Ph.D.<br>Much of the literature on investment-cash flow sensitivity examines only manufacturing firms, uses capital expenditure as a measure of investment, and uses operating cash flow as a measure of internal funds. Over the last several decades, due to outsourcing, the importance of manufacturing firms in the U.S. economy and the importance of capital expenditure as the primary type of investment have declined. The introduction of the Nasdaq exchange allowed smaller, less-profitable, and more human-capital intensive firms to become public, lowering the impo

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Lei, Angela Xuying. "Essays on investment, financing, and institutions in China." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2012. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/480/.

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China’s unique approach to the market economy during its transitional phase has provoked widespread interest among researchers. While the Western literature can certainly not be directly applied under Chinese economic conditions, it offers important theoretical grounds on which we can build our understanding of different behaviour of firms and banks in China. In the first chapter, we employ a unique set of data on financial information of over 6,000 firms and study the lending pattern of banks in China at a firm level. We find that in addition to common factors such as profitability, size, and

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Hayley, S. "Cognitive error in the measurement of investment returns." Thesis, City University London, 2015. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/13172/.

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This thesis identifies and quantifies the impact of cognitive errors in certain aspects of investor decision-making. One error is that investors are unaware that the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is a biased indicator of expected terminal wealth for any dynamic strategy where the amount invested is systematically related to the returns made to date. This error leads investors to use Value Averaging (VA). This thesis demonstrates that this is an inefficient strategy, since alternative strategies can generate identical outturns with lower initial capital. Investors also wrongly assume that the l

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Fan, Weiwei. "Household savings, relationship banking, and urbanization : three essays in economic development and finance /." View Abstract or Full-Text, 2003. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?ECON%202003%20FAN.

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Hrouda, Jiří. "Leveraged acquisition finance." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-74068.

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Main interest of this diploma thesis is a transaction known as leveraged acquisition. The goal is to provide detailed overview of these transactions starting from history and development of leveraged acquisitions, key market participants, acquisition financing, leveraged acquisition market and its current trends and analysis of a fictional transaction using advanced financial model. Due to the limited extent of the thesis not all aspects of debt financing and modeling could have been covered in the text.

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Im, Hyun Joong. "Essays in corporate finance." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2f865e57-ff55-4198-a2b5-2a4f48e3d201.

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This thesis contributes to the empirical literature on how firms meet exceptional financing needs in relation to “investment spikes” or years with unusually large investment activities. In the earlier part of the thesis, I show that the financing of investment during an investment spike is very different from that at other times. I have done this using data for publicly traded US firms over the period 1988 to 2007 and a filtering procedure suggested by Bond et al. (2006). Specifically, external finance, in particular debt finance, is very important in financing investment in years categorized

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Almeida, Serra Costa Vitoria Pedro Miguel. "Topics on forward investment theory." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:158e9239-1385-4314-b337-3eed27c76dfc.

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In this thesis, we study three topics in optimal portfolio selection that are relevant to the theory of forward investment performance processes. In Chapter 1, we develop a connection between the classical mean-variance optimisation and time-monotone forward performance processes for infinitesimal trading times. Namely, we consider consecutive mean-variance problems and we show that, for an appropriate choice of the corresponding mean-variance trade-off coefficients, the wealth process that is generated converges (as the trading interval goes to zero) to the optimal wealth process generated by

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Dube, Tinashe Alison. "Ex-ante evaluation of investment performance fees using spread options." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27070.

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This dissertation analyses ex-ante asymmetric performance fee structures used by South African Mutual Funds and estimates performance fees some time before the fees are paid. Certain parties might benefit from having a reasonable estimate of its value. We use spread option theory to value ex-ante performance fees. The data consist of monthly benchmark and fund gross returns from December 1999 to October 2014. The theoretical value of ex-ante performance fees is a function of spread volatility, therefore high spread volatilities give rise to high ex-ante performance fees. Ex-ante performance fe

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Hossain, Mahzabeen Natasha. "Hedge fund of funds investment process : a South African perspective." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8528.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>The objective of this dissertation is to develop and test an investment process for hedge fund of funds (HFoFs) in South Africa. The dissertation proposes a three tiered process, adapted from the works of Lo (2008). Step one of the proccess involves the categorisation of hedge funds into broadly defined groups based on predefined factors. Two classification methodologies are examined herein to determine optimal category definitions. These are 1) an adaption of the classification developed by Schneeweis and Spurgin (2000), based on the correlation of

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Tang, Yin Chiu. "Optimal entry and exit strategies of an investment project : compound American options /." View Abstract or Full-Text, 2002. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?MATH%202002%20TANG.

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Karagodsky, Igor. "Essays in Corporate Finance." Thesis, Boston College, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107406.

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Thesis advisor: Thomas J. Chemmanur<br>Thesis advisor: Arthur Lewbel<br>The dissertation aims to investigate the role of asymmetric information in capital structure, investment, compensation of mortgage servicers, and bond and equity returns. Specifically, I evaluate the impact of credit ratings on debt issuance and investment of private and public firms, as well as the effect of asymmetric information on compensation of loan servicers in the mortgage backed securities market. Further, I study the relationship between ratings issued by investor and issuer-paid credit rating agencies and equity

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Rancan, Michela. "Social Networks in Finance." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3427391.

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The main purpose of the present thesis is to shed light on the role of social networks in finance. The interest in this subject is motivated by the fact that social networks influence beliefs, choices and behaviors of agents. Moreover, nowadays financial markets are increasingly interdependent and financial actors are highly interconnected. Nevertheless, according with a traditional approach competition is a standard assumption modelling financial markets. Hence, this work was inspired by the scientific curiosity to investigate whether social interactions may be a channel of information exchan

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Schuster, Joel D. "Business aircraft investment and financial performance." Thesis, Capella University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3714060.

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<p> This research was an attempt to replicate, yet expand previous empirically supported, qualitative gray literature research conducted by NEXA (2010). The primary difference between this study and the NEXA study is adding significance testing in a quantitative study, to substantiate previously reported positive organizational financial performance associated with business aircraft investment. The outcome contradicted the previous study by providing evidence there were no significant differences in financial performance between those companies that own business aircraft and those companies

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Kornmann, Lauren. "Evaluating financial risk with investment guidelines." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/34149.

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Master of Agribusiness<br>Department of Agricultural Economics<br>Allen M. Featherstone<br>Cash management practices for corporate treasurers are in a state of instability in recent years. Events during the credit crisis of 2008 have had an impact on how organization’s cash positions are managed. This has led corporate treasurers to juggle unprecedented amounts of cash across multiple bank counterparties and invest these funds based on previous investment policies with potentially inflexible limits. Many regulations have been passed to strengthen domestic and global financial systems, yet

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Wang, Pan. "Essays on China's outward foreign direct investment, 1991-2009." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12502/.

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China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) grew from a very limited scale prior to the 1990s to reach an annual average growth rate of 67% between 1991 and 2009, placing China as the largest FDI source country among the developing countries, and the fifth largest FDI source country in the world in 2009. China’s experience is particularly interesting because it serves to help us further understand OFDI in general and the emergence of investments from the developing countries in particular. This thesis aims to answer a series of unexplored questions about China’s OFDI, including its underl

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Ratanabanchuen, Roongkiat. "Demographic transition, pension schemes' investment, and the financial market." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2013. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/701/.

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There have been lots of theoretical and empirical debates about the impact of demographic transition on the financial market. The main economic theory that is often cited to explain the causality is the lifecycle hypothesis. Since this hypothesis suggests that a lifetime saving pattern of individuals will have an inverted U-shape profile, there is a widely concern for the ‘market meltdown scenario’ whereby the stock market might collapse following the retirement of baby-boomers who will begin to dissipate their accumulated wealth. However, the actual dissaving rates of retired households appea

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Mikušová, Lucie. "Osobní finance, investiční možnosti a zvyklosti v ČR." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-4844.

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We are living in the era of financial uncertainty and high volatility on financial markets. According to some experts, these circumstances will have a significant impact on the investment conventions of Czech investors in the future. Economists are afraid of even stronger conservatism and skepticism on the field of investment tools. The gab between the yield of Czech and American or Australian family portfolio will be most probably deepen thanks to this. My master thesis has the goal to briefly define financial products which are available for Czech investors. Furthermore I also explain reason

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Guirguis, Michel. "A multifactor model of investment trust discounts." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2005. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/346/.

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A closed-end fund, known as an investment trust in the UK and closed-end fund in the US, is a collective investment company that invests in shares of other companies. This study attempts to describe and explain the persistence of the excess discount return on UK investment trusts and US closed-end funds. The ability to identify which factors best capture return variation is central to applications of multifactor pricing models. So the main purpose of this thesis is the application of a multifactor risk model that will explain the-existence of the excess discount return. Hence, the title of the

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Lai, Chaoqun. "Essays on Investment Fluctuation and Market Volatility." DigitalCommons@USU, 2008. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/200.

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This dissertation includes two different groups of objects in macroeconomics and financial economics. In macroeconomics, the aggregate investment fluctuation and its relation to an individual firm's behavior have been extensively studied for the past three decades. Most studies on the interdependence behavior of firms' investment focus on the key issue of separating a firm's reaction to others' behavior from reaction to common shocks. However, few researchers have addressed the issue of isolating this endogenous effect from a statistical and econometrical approach. The first essay starts wit

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Cheng, Cheuk-sang Arnold. "Government finance and capital formation in Hong Kong since 1945." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1986. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42574067.

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