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ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT TREATIES, INVESTOR-STATE DISPUTES AND DOUBLE TAX TREATIES
(2017-12-15)Chapter 1 explores the effects of international investment treaties on institutional quality. Capital importing countries use bilateral investment treaties (BITs) as a means to attract foreign investors who see these ... -
Euro-dollar interest rates /
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Evaluation of GNMA pass-through securities /
(1984)The equation derived is a step towards a general theory of security valuation. -
An examination of new ventures going through the initial public offering: The impact of firm capabilities and characteristics on performance.
(2004)Entrepreneurship as a field of study generally focuses on the pursuit of new opportunities and the activities of firms engaged in bringing new ideas to financial fruition. Due to their liability of newness, growth and ... -
Forecasting Natural Gas Prices in the United States Using Artificial Neural Networks
(2016-05-13)Prediction of the natural gas price is imperative to producers, suppliers, traders, market makers, and bankers involved in the natural gas exploration, production transportation, and trading. Additionally, consumers are ... -
Formulation and analysis of optimization models for planning capital budgets /
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The forward market for foreign exchange :
(1980)The findings of this study support others which examine financial markets. The time series distributions are not normal; they are stable Paretian. The forward market for foreign exchange is not random; but neither is it ... -
The Government Performance and Results Act and the Department of Defense: A view from the bottom.
(2004)At least five government-wide reform initiatives have been attempted since the end of World War II. The latest is the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) passed into law in 1993. A review of literature on government ... -
Hedging in the interest rate markets.
(1997)The suitability of GARCH and EGARCH models in a cross-hedging framework is also examined whereby a T-bill spot position is hedged with Eurodollar futures. The naive and risk-minimization models are also included in this ... -
Immunization, stochastic process risk, and optimal objective functions: Reexamination of the duration vector model with Monte Carlo sampling.
(1998)In Part One of this dissertation, the Chambers, Carleton, and McEnally (CCM) model is reexamined by two separate empirical designs. In the first, the CCM quarterly data test is replicated with a larger sample and with the ... -
Incidence of the retail sales tax as applied to Oklahoma.
(1981)The incidence, or distributional effect, of the retail sales tax has long been a concern of both economists and state legislators. Because the sales tax is added to consumer expenditures, and because households with lower ... -
The informational content of financial information on the Internet.
(2002)In summary, my results indicate there appears to be little new informational value available in the on-line financial information investigated in the following essays. While the Internet has a real impact on market efficiency ... -
Intra- and inter-commodity price relationships in electricity and natural gas spot and futures markets.
(2001)Essay 2 examines why electricity futures contracts are failing despite apparent need for hedging instruments. Consistent with my hypothesis, empirical results find that the hedging protection provided by electricity futures ... -
The leverage implication of the portfolio effect for multi-industry firms /
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The long-term consequences of debt issuance.
(1999)In addition, the equity returns of debt issuers are significantly lower than those of non-issuing firms. The duration of the underperformance rivals that of new equity issuers although the magnitude is much less than that ... -
Measurement alternatives for earnings, total assets, and total liabilities: The value-relevance of adjusting financial statement summary measures by a comprehensive financial reporting analysis.
(1997)A secondary research question of interest to this thesis is that of differential valuation by investors between recognized versus alternatively disclosed financial data. These results offer inconsistent evidence on this ... -
Money and banking in economic development /
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Multifactor valuation models of energy futures and options on futures.
(2003)The intent of this dissertation is to investigate continuous time pricing models for commodity derivative contracts that consider mean reversion. The motivation for pricing commodity futures and option on futures contracts ... -
Observations on the empirical capital asset pricing model in estimating a public utility's cost of equity capital.
(1998)The literature of the Capital Asset Pricing Model describes a fundamental bias in its empirical application. The most notable problem is that the Empirical Capital Asset Pricing Model produces betas which overestimate the ...