Investment in a Global Economy:
Its Environment, Finance, and Economics
Edited by
Peter E. Koveos
ISBN: 968-960-6672-36-1, 421 pages, Hardback
First
published in 2008 by ATINER
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Table of
Contents
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1. |
Introduction Koveos,
P.E. |
1 |
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PART
I: The Environment: Money, Exchange Rates and Rating |
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2. |
Definitions and
Measures of Money: A Survey and
Interpretation Kurien, J. |
15 |
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3. |
A Reassessment of Technical Analysis: The Case of Exchange Rates Koveos, P.E. and Park, C.H. |
55 |
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4. |
An Analysis of the Use of Debt Default Calculations
and Standard and Poor’s Online Credit Ratings in Predicting Bankruptcy Brathwaite, F. |
71 |
PART II:
The Environment: Financial Markets
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5. |
Asset-Pricing
Model APT (Arbitrage Pricing Theory) on the Mexican Stock Exchange:
Extraction Methods of Pervasive Systematic Risk Factors Ladron de Guevara
Cortes, R. and Porras, S.T. |
85 |
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6. |
A Test of the
Free Cash Flow Hypothesis: Evidence from
Australian Tender Offers and Share Repurchases Tieleman, M.J.
and Mayall, P. |
97 |
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7. |
Bayesian Analysis of Deterministic Time Trend and
Changes in Persistence using a Generalised Stochastic Unit Root Model Yang, F. |
103 |
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8. |
Are Short Sales
Informative: Evidence from the Korea Stock Exchange Kim, J. |
125 |
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9. |
Rights Issues, Information Asymmetry and Equity
Overvaluation: UK Evidence Andrikopoulos, P. and Daynes,
A. |
137 |
PART III:
Investment and Finance
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10. |
Country Risk and its Impact on Foreign Direct Investment Decisions:
The Case of Bulgaria Mateev, M. And
Stayanov, I. |
193 |
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11. |
Capital
Acquisition Attitudes: Gender and Experience
Carter, R.B. and
Van Auken, H. |
205 |
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12. |
Foreign Direct Investment Analysis of Croatian Firms Dedi, L. and Orsag, S. |
219 |
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13. |
Do
Finance Constraints affect Inventory Investment Decisions of Firms? Evidence
for the Portuguese Manufacturing Sector Cunha, J. and Paisana, A. |
231 |
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14. |
Chairpersons,
Boards and Financial Performance in Greece Koufopoulos, D.N., Zoumbos, V.T. and Gkliatis, Y. |
247 |
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15. |
Informed
Decisions: Corporate Governance and the Auditor’s Responsibility Frenkel, D.A., Lurie, Y. and Yaari,
V.L. |
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PART IV: Investment in Human Capital
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16. |
How do Breaks in
Education Transmission Across Generations Affect Comparisons of Homogeneity
and Long-term Educational Prospects? The Case of Peru Yalonetzky, G. |
261 |
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17. |
Too much
Education and can we have it all? Liu, Q. |
271 |
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18. |
Microeconometric
Evaluation of Undergraduate Students’ Results: A Matching Methodology
Application to a Portuguese Polytechnic Nunes, A. and Fernandes, P. |
285 |
PART V: Industry Studies
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19. |
Valuing the Potential Health Benefits of Trans-fat Free Oil Malla, S. and Hobbs,
J.E. |
319 |
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20. |
The Biofules Industry: An Economic
Perspective on Growth, Government Intervention and Future Prospects Klein, K.K and LeRoy, D.G. |
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21. |
UK Textile
Imports: The Relative Performance of China and the Role of Exchange Rate
Volatility Xu, J. |
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