investigating the relationships among oil prices, bond index returns and interest rates

investigating the relationships among oil prices, bond index returns and interest rates

investigating the relationships among oil prices, bond index returns and interest rates

... stimulates our interest to examine the relationship among oil price changes, bond prices, and interest rate /interest rate volatility, and list the Hypothesis 1 as follows: Hypothesis 3: The interest ... as the relationship between oil price changes and bond returns, the relationship between oil price changes and the growth of interest rates, and...
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Assessing the relationships among information technology flexibility, IT-business strategic alignment, and information technology effectiveness An investigation of business intelligence implementation

Assessing the relationships among information technology flexibility, IT-business strategic alignment, and information technology effectiveness An investigation of business intelligence implementation

... of the central research question and the sub-questions for this study, and placed the study findings in context with the existing body of knowledge. The third section provided conclusions and ... align their effort on doing the right things that is effectiveness and doing things right which is efficiency. They should strive to strike the optimum balance between the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Kininogen-derived peptides for investigating the putative vasoactive properties of human cathepsins K and L docx

Báo cáo khoa học: Kininogen-derived peptides for investigating the putative vasoactive properties of human cathepsins K and L docx

... standard. However two specific cleavage sites were identified, one at the Gly384- Phe385 bond and the other at the Arg389-Ser390 bond, which is consistent with the unique ability of cathepsin K among ... hydrolyzed the N-BK peptide mainly at the Lys380-Arg381 bond (i.e., bradykinin-releasing site), and to a lesser extent ( 20%) at the Met-Lys bond (Fig. 2B). The h...
Ngày tải lên : 31/03/2014, 07:20
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The relationship between default risk and interest rates: An empirical study research insight

The relationship between default risk and interest rates: An empirical study research insight

... quality bonds and significant for low quality bonds. Duffee also test the correlation between callable bonds and interest rates using Moody’s and Lehman Brothers bond indices. Callable bonds show ... on the correlations between the levels of credit spread and interest rates using Moody’s bond indexes from 1960–1997. They find that corporate rates are co- integrate...
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Monetary Policy Surprises and Interest Rates: Evidence from the Fed Funds Futures Market doc

Monetary Policy Surprises and Interest Rates: Evidence from the Fed Funds Futures Market doc

... to ask is whether the response of bill and bond rates to the two components differs — or indeed whether rates respond at all to predictable changes. This can be done within the Cook and Hahn-style ... target rate changes and other interest rates. For example, in applying the Cook and Hahn event-study approach to the 1987–1995 period, Roley and Sellon (1995) found...
Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 02:21
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WORKING PAPER SERIES NO 748 / MAY 2007: FINANCIAL DOLLARIZATION THE ROLE OF BANKS AND INTEREST RATES docx

WORKING PAPER SERIES NO 748 / MAY 2007: FINANCIAL DOLLARIZATION THE ROLE OF BANKS AND INTEREST RATES docx

... reflecting the optimal hedging strategy of firms as regards to the real return on their investments. On the one hand, if the real return is p ositively correlated with the real exchange rate then choosing ... period 1 the firm will get MV at period 2, where M is the real return on the project and is stochastic. We further assume that the firm has no funds in period 1 and hen...
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Impact of high oil prices on the economy potx

Impact of high oil prices on the economy potx

... higher in 2011 than 2009 as a result of higher international oil prices & oil- indexed gas prices Cost of net imports of oil and gas in the European Union EU’s net import bills % Share of GDP ... of high oil prices on the economy © OECD/IEA 2012 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 2009 2010 2011 Billion USD Gas Oil 2.1% 2.7% 3.3% Europe: rising energy prices c...
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Budget Impasse Hinges on Confusion among Deficit Reduction, Tax Increase, and Tax Reform: An Economic Analysis of Dual Capacity and Section 199 Proposals for the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry ppt

Budget Impasse Hinges on Confusion among Deficit Reduction, Tax Increase, and Tax Reform: An Economic Analysis of Dual Capacity and Section 199 Proposals for the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry ppt

... simultaneously increase the economic benefits enjoyed by the public and increase Federal tax revenue: in other words, they expand the economic pie. Significant oil and gas reserves lie under the U.S. Outer ... business activity and economic growth. They therefore achieve the worst of both worlds: they hurt the economy while exacerbating the federal budget deficit....
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Time and performance   a three part study examining the relationships of job experience, organizational tenure, and age with job performance

Time and performance a three part study examining the relationships of job experience, organizational tenure, and age with job performance

... Discussion and Limitations. The meta-analytic results support the hypotheses. The finding that all three relationships are moderated by the average level of the temporal variable in the sample ... reviewed literature and the study’s hypotheses. However, as the range of values may have an effect on the magnitude of the observed relationship, the standard deviati...
Chapter 6 The Single Index Model and Bivariate Regression

Chapter 6 The Single Index Model and Bivariate Regression

... variability of the market index and if β i,M < 1 then adding the security will decrease the variability of the market index. The intuition behind the single index model is as follows. The market index ... 2. The mean monthly returns on IBM and the market index are 0.9617% and 1.3992% per month and the sample standard deviations are 5.9024% and 6.835...