Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Singapore, : World Scientific, c2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (270 p.)
Disciplina	332 657.48
Altri autori (Persone)	LeeCheng F
Collana	Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance & Accounting
Soggetto topico	Finance Finance - Mathematical models Accounting Accounting - Mathematical models
ISBN	1-281-93398-8 9786611933982 981-279-169-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Chapter 1 Collateral Constraints, Debt Management, and Investment Incentives Elettra Agliardi and Rainer Andergassen""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The Model""; ""2.1. Time 2""; ""2.2. Time 1""; ""2.3. Benchmark""; ""3. Optimal Hedging""; ""4. Conclusion""; ""Appendix""; ""References""; ""Chapter 2 A Concave Quadratic Programming Marketing Strategy Model with Product Life Cycles Paul Y. Kim, Chin W. Yang, Cindy Hsiao-Ping Peng and Ken Hung""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The Linear Programming Marketing Strategy Model"" ""3. A Concave Quadratic Programming Model of the Marketing Strategy Problem""""4. Critical Evaluations of the Marketing Strategy Models""; ""5. Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3 Evaluating the Robustness of Market Anomaly Evidence William D. Brown Jr., Erin A. Moore and Ray J. Pfeiffer Jr.""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Background""; ""3. Description of the Research Design""; ""3.1. The effects of passive deletion""; ""3.2. The effects of extreme returns""; ""3.3. The forecast-to-price anomaly""; ""3.4. The accruals anomaly""; ""4. Results"" ""4.1. Investigating the effects of passive deletion""""4.2. Investigating the effects of extreme returns""; ""5. Summary and Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""References""; ""Chapter 4 Why is the Value Relevance of Earnings Lower for High-Tech Firms? B. Brian Lee, Eric Press and B. Ben Choi""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Contemporaneous Association between Returns and Earnings""; ""3. Background and Model Development""; ""3.1. Expense mismatching (earnings lack of timeliness) versus noise for high-technology firms""; ""3.2. Model development""; ""3.3. Noise from uncertain benefits"" ""4. Empirical Results""""4.1. Expense mismatching""; ""4.2. Noise""; ""5. Conclusions""; ""APPENDIX""; ""References""; ""Chapter 5 Thirty Years of Canadian Evidence on Stock Splits, Reverse Stock Splits, and Stock Dividends Vijay Jog and Peng Cheng Zhu""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Literature Review""; ""3. Sample Description and Methodology""; ""4. Empirical Results""; ""4.1. Stock price trend""; ""4.2. Stock return trend""; ""4.3. Earnings per share trend""; ""4.4. Systematic risk (beta) trend""; ""4.5. Trading volume trend""; ""4.6. Transaction number trend"" ""4.7. Possible changes in shareholder composition""""4.8. Post-split dividend behavior""; ""4.9. Valuation impact""; ""4.10. Post-split corporate governance environment""; ""5. Summary and Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Chapter 6 Intraday Volume volatility Relation of the DOW: A Behavioral Interpretation Ali F. Darrat, Shafiqur Rahman and Maosen Zhong""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. A Behavioral Interpretation""; ""3. Empirical Results""; ""4. Concluding Remarks""; ""References"" ""Chapter 7 The Pricing of Initial Public Offerings: An Option Approach Sheen Liu, Chunchi Wu and Peter Huaiyu Chen""
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific Publishing, c2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (344 p.)
Disciplina	332 657
Altri autori (Persone)	LeeCheng F
Collana	Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance & Accounting
Soggetto topico	Finance - Mathematical models Accounting - Mathematical models
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-91197-6 9786611911973 981-277-221-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Chapter 1 The Least Cost Super-replicating Portfolio for Short Puts and Calls in The Boyle-Vorst Model with Transaction Costs Guan-Yu Chen, Ken Palmer and Yuan-Chung Sheu; 1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. General Contingent Claims in the Two-Period Case; 4. Least Cost Super-replicating Portfolios for Short Puts and Calls in the Two-Period Case; 5. An Example with Path-Dependent Least Cost Super-replicating Portfolios; References Chapter 2 Testing of Non-stationarities in the Unit Circle, Long Memory Processes, and Day of the Week Effects in Financial Data Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Luis A. Gil-Alana and Mike Nazarski 1. Introduction; 2. Testing of Nonstationarities in the Unit Circle; 3. A Monte Carlo Simulation Study; 4. Two Empirical Applications; 4.1. The Eurodollar rate; 4.2. The Dow Jones index; 5. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3 Equity Restructuring via Tracking Stocks: Is there any Value Added? Beni Lauterbach and Joseph Vu; 1. Introduction; 2. Why Issue Tracking Stocks? 2.1. Information explanations 2.2. The diversification discount motive; 2.3. Investor clientele; 2.4. Agency perspectives; 2.5. Other motivations; 3. Market Response to Tracking Stock Announcements; 4. The Long-Term Response of Parent Stocks; 5. Summary and Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 4 Stock Option Exercises and Discretionary Disclosure Wei Zhang and Steven F. Cahan; 1. Introduction; 2. Prior Literature; 2.1. Disclosure; 2.2. Disclosure and option grants; 2.3. Disclosures, option exercises, and privation information; 3. Hypothesis; 4. Method 4.1. Measurements of main variables 4.2. Model specification; 5. Results; 5.1. Sample and descriptive statistics; 5.2. Regression results from partitioned samples; 5.3. Results from regressions with interactions; 6. Discussion and Conclusion; References; Chapter 5 Do Profit Warnings Convey Information About the Industry? Dave Jackson, Jeff Madura and Judith Swisher; 1. Introduction; 2. Related Literature and Hypotheses; 2.1. Related literature; 2.2. Factors that could influence industry effects; 3. Sample Selection; 4. Descriptive Statistics; 5. Industry Effects 5.1. Industry effects partitioned by pre- and post-RFD5.2. Industry effects partitioned by SIC classification; 5.3. Industry effects partitioned by size of the surprise; 5.4. Industry effects partitioned by the revaluation of the warning firm; 5.5. Industry effects partitioned by size of the warning firm; 5.6. Industry effects partitioned by analyst coverage of the warning firm; 6. Multivariate Analysis; 6.1. Multivariate model; 6.2. Results of multivariate analysis; 6.3. Results of the multivariate analysis applied to pre- and post-RFD periods; 7. Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References Chapter 6 Are Whisper Forecasts more Informative than Consensus Analysts' Forecasts? Erik Devos and Yiuman Tse
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Autore	Pompian Michael M. <1963->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, c2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (415 p.)
Disciplina	305.5/234 332
Collana	Wiley finance
Soggetto topico	Rich people Investments - Decision making
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-68259-8 9786612682599 1-118-26785-0 0-470-48349-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Who are the ultra-affluent? -- Understanding the mindset of the ultra-affluent client -- Wealth attitudes, aspirations, and investor behavior of ultra-affluent clients -- Noninvestment best practices -- Practices of the best investment organizations -- Asset allocation considerations for ultra-affluent clients and family offices -- Domestic and international equity -- Domestic and international bonds -- Private equity -- Hedge funds -- Real assets -- Selecting an advisor -- Selecting a custodian and investment vehicle structure -- Considerations for creating a family office -- Wealth transfer planning -- Concentrated equity reisk management -- Family governance -- Risk management and asset protection -- Philanthropy -- Multigenerational asset allocation strategies.
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Pubbl/distr/stampa	Washington, D.C., : IOS Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina	332
Altri autori (Persone)	MordiniE (Emilio) De HertPaul
Collana	Ambient intelligence and smart environments
Soggetto topico	Aging - Social aspects Aging Older people
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	6612880473 1-282-88047-0 9786612880476 1-60750-615-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Title page; Foreword by Lambert van Nistelrooij MEP; About the Authors; General Introduction; Contents; Chapter One. The EU and the e-Inclusion of Older Persons; Introduction; Building the Information Society (1993-1997); Building the Information Society for Us All (1996); Introduction; Data, Information, and Knowledge; Social Constructivism v. Technology Determinism; Policy Challenges: Social Exclusion, Literacy, Virtuality, and Flexible Organisation; Towards Lisbon (1997-2000); The Rolling Action Plan for the Information Society (1997); The European Employment Strategy and Elderly People The Lisbon Agenda (2000)The Lisbon Strategy, Ageing Population, and ICT; e-Europe and the Choice for Access as Pivotal Principle; Demographic Ageing Drives the EU 'Towards a Europe for all Ages'; Demographic Ageing, Information Society and Elderly People; The Reviewed Lisbon Agenda and the Emergence of e-Inclusion for Elderly People (2005-to Date); A More Integrated Approach; The Socio-Economic Challenges of Ageing Societies: A New Appraisal; i2010 European Information Society: Enters e-Inclusion; The Riga Declaration (2006); The Bled and Vienna Summits (2008); Towards EU 2020 Active Ageing on the EU AgendaReferences; Chapter Two. Ageing in the Information Society; Introduction. e-Inclusion, Vulnerability, and Active Ageing; Diversity and Commonalities; Diversity; ... and commonalities; Passing of Time and Power Relations; Passing of Time; Ageing and Power; Ageing, Wisdom, Wealth and Democratic Systems; On Wisdom; On Wealth; Notes on the Idolatry of Youth (in Historical Memory and Democratic Systems); The Expectancy of Death; On Death; On Contrasting Ageing; Narrative; Science; Crossing Lines; Active Ageing: A Blessing for the Aged?; References Chapter Three. The EU Legal Framework for the e-Inclusion of Older PersonsIntroduction; Human Rights and the Elderly; The International Framework on Ageing; The Rights of Elderly People in Positive Human Rights Law in Europe; The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR); Article 3: Prohibtion of Torture, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; Article 5: Right to Liberty and Security; Article 8: Right to Respect for Private and Family Life; The Revised European Social Charter; Article 23: The Right of Elderly Persons to Social Protection; The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights Article 25: The Rights of the ElderlyArticle 14: The Right to Education; Old Age and Discrimination; Legal Framework; Discrimination on the Ground of (Old) Age; Reasonable Accommodation; Legal Areas Relevant to e-Inclusion; e-Health; e-Government; Corporate Social Responsibility; Consumer Protection; Product Safety and Liability for Defective Products; e-Commerce; Intellectual Property Rights; Standardization of ICT Products and Services; Standards and Interoperability; e-Accessibility; Universal Service and Users' Rights; Broadband Access; ICT Implants; Clinical Trials; Ethical Guidelines References
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910459168003321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	[Washington, D.C.], : U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, Office of Financial Stability, 2009-
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (volumes)
Disciplina	332
Soggetto genere / forma	Periodicals.
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Periodico
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910693412603321