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Pre-funded Coupon and Zero-Coupon Bonds: Cost of Capital Analysis
Pre-funded coupon bonds have been developed and sold by investment bankers in place of zero-coupon bonds to raise funds for companies facing cash flow problems. Additional bonds are issued and proceeds are dep...
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The Le Chatelier Principle of the Capital Market Equilibrium
This chapter purports to provide a theoretical underpinning for the problem of the Investment Company Act. The theory of the Le Chatelier principle is well known in thermodynamics: The system tends to adjust i...
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A Critical Evaluation of the Portfolio Performance Indices Under Rank Transformation
This chapter analytically determines the conditions under which four commonly utilized portfolio measures (the Sharpe index, the Treynor index, the Jensen alpha, and the adjusted Jensen alpha) will be similar ...
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How Consistent Are the Judges of Portfolio Performance?
This analysis tests whether the rank ordering of a set of portfolios, with varying number of assets, differs depending on the performance measure used. To test this hypothesis, we construct a Friedman test ove...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
The Le Chatelier Principle of the Capital Market Equilibrium
This entry purports to provide a theoretical underpinning for the problem of the Investment Company Act. The theory of the Le Chatelier principle is well known in thermodynamics: The system tends to adjust its...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
How Consistent Are the Judges of Portfolio Performance?
This analysis tests whether the rank ordering of a set of portfolios, with varying number of assets, differs depending on the performance measure used. To test this hypothesis, we construct a Friedman test ove...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
A Critical Evaluation of the Portfolio Performance Indices Under Rank Transformation
This paper analytically determines the conditions under which four commonly utilized portfolio measures (the Sharpe index, the Treynor index, the Jensen alpha, and the adjusted Jensen alpha) will be similar an...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
The Le Châtelier Principle of the Capital Market Equilibrium
This chapter purports to provide a theoretical underpinning for the problem of the Investment Company Act. The theory of the Le Chatelier principle is well known in thermodynamics. The system tends to adjust i...
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Optimal Asset Allocation Under VaR Criterion: Taiwan Stock Market
Value at risk (VaR) measures the worst expected loss over a given time horizon under normal market conditions at a specific level of confidence. These days, VaR is the benchmark for measuring, monitoring, and ...
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Determinations of Corporate Earnings Forecast Accuracy: Taiwan Market Experience
Individual investors are actively involved in stock market and are making investment decision based on publicly available and nonproprietary information, such as corporate earnings forecasts from the managemen...
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Multi-Risk Premia Model of US Bank Returns: An Integration of CAPM and APT
Interest rate sensitivity of bank stock returns has been studied using an augmented CAPM, a multiple regression model with market returns and interest rate as independent variables. In this paper, we test an a...
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Dynamic Interactions Between Institutional Investors and the Taiwan Stock Returns: One-Regime and Threshold VAR Models
This paper constructs a six-variable VAR model (including NASDAQ returns, TSE returns, NT/USD returns, net foreign purchases, net domestic investment companies (dic) purchases, and net registered trading firms...
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Effect of Merger on the Credit Rating and Performance of Taiwan Security Firms
The effect of a merger on credit rating is investigated by testing the significance of change in a firm’s rank based on comprehensive performance score and synergistic gains. We extract principle component fac...
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Article
Cointegration and causal relationships among steel prices of Mainland China, Taiwan, and USA in the presence of multiple structural changes
Variation in the price of steel is an important factor to take into consideration when discussing cost control and management decisions in the construction industry. We employ various conventional and advanced...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Pre-funded Coupon and Zero-Coupon Bonds: Cost of Capital Analysis
Pre-funded coupon bonds have been developed and sold by investment bankers in place of zero-coupon bonds to raise funds for companies facing cash flow problems. Additional bonds are issued and proceeds are dep...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
The Le Chatelier Principle of the Capital Market Equilibrium
This paper purports to provide a theoretical underpinning for the problem of the Investment Company Act. The theory or the Le Chatelier Principle is well-known in thermodynamics: The system tends to adjust its...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
A Critical Evaluation of the Portfolio Performance Indices Under Rank Transformation
This paper analytically determines the conditions under which four commonly utilized portfolio measures (the Sharpe index, the Treynor index, the Jensen alpha and the Adjusted Jensen alpha) will be similar and...
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Article
A Note on Allen’s Arc Elasticity with Arithmetic, Geometric and Harmonic Means
Discussion and debate on the application of Allen’s arc elasticity has continued into the 21st century. This note demonstrates three points. First, perceived differences between Allen’s geometric mean elastici...
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Mouse Models for Colorectal Cancer
A large number of mouse models have been developed for colorectal cancer (CRC). In this chapter, we describe the initial knockout models made by insertional mutagenesis for the Adenomatous polyposis coli gene (Ap...
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Chapter
The Le Chatelier Principle in the Markowitz Quadratic Programming Investment Model: A Case of World Equity Fund Market
Due to limited numbers of reliable international equity funds, the Markowitz investment model is ideal in constructing an international portfolio. Overinvestment in one or several fast-growing markets can be d...