Alternative explanations: evidence for internal developments?
Profitability of Momentum Strategies: An Evaluation of Alternative Explanations
... Conrad and Kaul (1993) point out that much of the evidence of long horizon mean reversion in DeBondt and Thaler (1985) is due to the inclusion of low priced stocks. We screen out these l[r] ...
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THE DARFUR GENOCIDE: Comparing Alternative Explanations with Geographic Information Systems
... “there is no or little evidence from surveys to support … that the attacks have been directed at rebel groups as a counter-insurgency strategy.” 61 In a study of a small region in Darfur, he observes that sites of ...
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Alternative explanations of under-pricing of Chinese initial public offerings
... market, but in practice most IPO new shares are on average priced relatively lower than their subsequent trading price in the secondary market. Apart from conjectures of market imperfection (Benveniste and Spindt 1989 ...
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PLS-Based Model Selection: The Role of Alternative Explanations in Information Systems Research
... “best” selection criteria values. Model selection criteria offer empirical guidance while comparing models. If a single model emerges as a clear winner, then inference can proceed based on that model. When there exist ...
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An empirical analysis of competing explanations of urban primacy: Evidence from Asia and the Americas
... countries. Evidence is presented, however, that more dictatorial regimes are associated with greater primacy and that increases in urbanization can lead to greater ...
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Wage inequality in the Netherlands: Evidence, trends and explanations
... As they are vastly overrepresented in the higher percentiles, this change in labour marked composition results in higher wages at higher percentiles of the aggregate wage distribution, even when inequality within ...
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Alternative Internal Audit Structures and Perceived Effectiveness of Internal Audit in Fraud Prevention: Evidence from Jordanian Banking Industry
... insource internal audit, Fraud, as discussed by corporate fraud literature, is difficult to detect for several reasons; first, perpetrators may be familiar with accounting procedures, and they have the ability to ...
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Financial developments and the rate of growth of output: An alternative approach
... new evidence on the relationship between financial developments and the long run growth rate or the ...financial developments are significant but seem to be smaller than found by many studies and the ...
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Multifactor Explanations of CAPM Anomalies: An Evidence for Indian Stock Market
... Then ranking is revised in June, 1998 and this process is repeated till end of the study period. Next we estimate the mean excess return 5 on each portfolio from July, 1997 to June, 2012. The similar procedure is adopted ...
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Fiscal Explanations for Inflation: Any Evidence from Transition Economies?
... indirect evidence of the presence of a fiscal-dominant regime, if fiscal policy influ- ences the development of the price level in the ...fiscal developments, it is fair to conclude that this would support ...
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Mat-courtyard housing in Auckland : an alternative typology for intensification developments
... larger developments, and it is not clearly described whether it is the net residential density or a gross ...including internal streets and half the width of the access ...the internal public spaces ...
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Theory and evidence in internal labor markets
... increases associated with promotions. In this interpretation promotions and the associated higher compensation serve as prizes and lower level workers increase their effort levels because doing so increases the ...
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Theory and evidence in internal labor markets
... An alternative approach is to use a log-wage specification explored in a large literature starting with Mincer (1974) (see Willis (1986) and Card (1999) for ...
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New Developments in the Restitution of Cultural Property: Alternative Means of Dispute Resolution
... 21. There are several possible explanations for the recent developments in claims for restitution, and in the terms on which it is granted. Above all, new sovereign- ties are emerging and becoming ...
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New modes of governance and the Irish case: finding evidence for explanations of social partnership
... between alternative networks to a common independent variable, for if this cannot be done the comparative utility of network analysis is ...the evidence collected cannot be claimed by opposing theoretical ...
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Evidence Examples And Explanations
... other evidence unless the act to be proved has some relevance to the case that is independent of its bearing on ...text evidence using the RACE Strategy with this adorable Beach Themed Bulletin Board by the ...
Alternative Explanations of the Money-Income Correlation
... (3.6) is a reduced form aggregate demand equation, which relates output to military spending (a major component of fiscal policy, chosen because it should be relatively exogenous) and wh[r] ...
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Trade and wages: choosing among alternative explanations
... I have examined the question of trade explanations at great length in Bhagwati and Dehejia (1994), and the issue has been extensively treated in Bhagwati and Kosters (1994). My conclusion is that the trade ...
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Child penalties across countries: evidence and explanations
... provides evidence on the relationship between child penalties and elicited gender ...This evidence, while not necessarily causal, is consistent with a potentially important role for gender ...
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Income and happiness: Evidence, explanations and economic implications
... 2.1 Cross-Rater Validity It is presumed that asking A how happy she is will provide information about her unobserved real level of happiness. A simple validity check is then to ask B whether he thinks A is happy. Many ...
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