1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910142020203321

Autore

Ertel Suitbert

Titolo

Factor analysis : healing an ailing model / / Suitbert Ertel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Göttingen : , : Universitätsverlag Göttingen, , [2013]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 pages ) : illustrations

Soggetti

Factor analysis

Psychology - Mathematical models

Social sciences - Mathematical models

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-160).

Sommario/riassunto

Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is a statistical tool for digging out hidden factors which give rise to the diversity of manifest objectives in psychology, medicine and other sciences. EFA had its heyday as psychologist Leon Thurstone (1935 and 1948) based EFA on what he called the “principle of simple structure” (SS). This principle, however, was erroneous from the beginning what remained unrecognized despite subsequent inventions of more sophisticated statistical tools such as confirmatory analysis and structural equation modeling. These methods are highly recommended today as tolerable routes to model complexities of observation. But they did not remove the harmful errors that SS had left behind. Five chapters in this book demonstrate and explain the trouble. In chapter 2 the ailment of SS is healed by introducing an unconventional factor rotation, called Varimin. Varimin gives variables of an analysis an optimal opportunity to manifest functional interrelations underlying correlational observations. Ten applications of Varimin (in chapter 2) show that its results are superior to results obtained by the conventional Varimax procedure. Further applications are presented for sports achievements (chapter 3), intelligence (chapter 4), and personality (chapter 5). If Varimin keeps on standing the tests new theoretical building blocks will arise together with conceptual networks promoting a better understanding of the



domains under study. Readers may check this prognosis by themselves using the statistical tool (Varimin) which is provided by open access in the internet.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910516093403321

Titolo

JOC week

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[New York], : JOC Group, 2000-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

330

Soggetti

International trade

Commerce

Periodicals.

United States Commerce Periodicals

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from home page (viewed July 26, 2000).



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910254893403321

Titolo

Bank Funding, Financial Instruments and Decision-Making in the Banking Industry / / edited by Santiago Carbó Valverde, Pedro Jesús Cuadros Solas, Francisco Rodríguez Fernández

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9783319307015

3319307010

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XX, 284 p. 20 illus., 6 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions, , 2523-3378

Disciplina

658.15

Soggetti

Business enterprises - Finance

Financial services industry

Capital market

Financial engineering

Finance, Public

Corporate Finance

Financial Services

Capital Markets

Financial Engineering

Public Finance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1) Does earnings management affect banks' cost of funding? An empirical investigation across an European sample; Federico Beltrame, Daniele Previtali and Alex Sclip -- 2) Volatility linkages and Co-movements between international stocks and the Sukuk market; Alberto Dreassi, Stefano Miani, Andrea Paltrinieri and Alex Sclip -- 3) Bank-specific, macroeconomic or structural variables: which explains bank enterprise lending? The evidence from transition countries; Ewa Miklaszewska and Krzysztof Kil -- 4) Bank-specific, macroeconomic or structural variables: which explains bank enterprise lending? The



evidence from transition countries; Santiago Carbó-Valverde, Pedro J. Cuadros-Solas and Francisco Rodríguez-Fernández -- 5) New Financing Instruments to Bridge the Funding Gap: The Lesson from Italy; Elisa Giaretta and Giusy Chesini -- 6) Microfinance Impact Investments: How Far Are They from OECD Social Impact Investment Definition; Mario La Torre and Helen Chiappini -- 7) Intellectual Capital Disclosure and IPO Results: Is it a Matter of Classification?; Christiana Cardi, Camilla Mazzoli and Sabrina Severini -- 8) The Drivers of Dividend Policies in Europe; Giusy Chesini and Elisa Giaretta -- 9) Long-Range Financial Decision-Making: The Role of Episodic Prospection; Gianni Brighetti, Caterina Lucarelli, Nicoletta Marinelli and Giulia Giansiracusa.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides insight into current research topics in finance and banking in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Expert authors authoritatively analyse how banks finance their activities and resolve funding issues. Chapters specifically discuss financial instruments such as corporate bonds, IPOs, sukuks and microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs) in light of the importance of institutional funding gaps. The decision-making process within the banking industry with regard to long-range financial decisions and dividend policies is also discussed.