an empirical investigation of income convergence

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... range of techniques, from interpolation at either the count level or the model level (Bacchiani and Roark, 2003; Bacchiani et al., 2006) to using explicit models of syntax or semantics Hsu and ... regression thereof for GDLM, and raw discounts for MKNLM and KNLM The parameters of JMLM are initialized to constants independent of the data These initializations are all heuristic and not guaranteed ... tune, and test on three disjoint corpora We consider two different training sets: one of 110M words of NYT from 2000 and 2001 (NYT00+01), and one of 110M words of AFP from 2002, 2005, and 2006...

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... Acceptance cycle: An empirical investigation of human-human collaborative dialogues Submitted for publication William M Grove, Nancy C Andreasen, Patricia McDonald-Scott, Martin B Keller, and Robert ... t and Accept tags, the antecedent of the Accept 1°Becanse of our heuristics of tagging specific actions as ActionDirectives, these utterances are not Open-Options 1.2 When the antecedent of ... R van Hout 1993 Statistical Techniques for the Study of Language and Language Behaviour Mouton de Gruyter John R Searle 1975 Indirect Speech Acts In P Cole and J.L Morgan, editors, Syntax and...

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... Commercial Bank; (17) Fuhwa Commercial Bank; (18) Hua Nan Commercial Bank; (19) Jih Sun International Bank; (20) Land Bank of Taiwan; (21) International Bank of Taipei; (22) Ta Chong Bank Ltd.; ... developing an effective credit review process to measure the credit risk of bank loans, including secured and unsecured loans, for 28 banks in Taiwan The credit risk of bank loans was estimated and ... fixed and floating rate debt”, Journal of Finance, 50, pp.789-819 Lu, S L and C J Kuo, 2005 “How to gauge the credit risk of guarantee issues in Taiwanese bills finance company: an empirical investigation...

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... proportion of audit revenues derived from the client and the probability of a lawsuit and offer lack of auditor independence as an explanation for their finding On the other hand, Reynolds and Francis ... (2): 115-139 , and K Subramanyam 1998 Auditor changes and discretionary accruals Journal of Accounting and Economics 25 (1): 35-67 , K Raghunandan, and K Subramanyam 2002 Do non-audit ... violation and manipulation of accruals Journal o f Accounting and Economics 17 (1-2): 145-176 , and C.W Park 1997 Smoothing income in anticipation of future earnings Journal o f Accounting and...

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... a council-manager form of government is consistent with greater demand for external monitoring (Raman and Wilson 1994, Zimmerman 1977) and higher reporting quality than other forms of government ... R.R KING; and R SCHWARTZ An Experimental Investigation of Retention and Rotation Requirements.” Journal of Accounting Research 39 (2001): 93-117 EVANS, J H., and J M PATTON “Signaling and Monitoring ... of Auditing: The Effects of Audit Firm Size, CPA Examination Performance, and Competition.” Research in Accounting Regulation (1992): 39-77 RAGHUNATHAN, B., B.L LEWIS; and J.H EVANS III An Empirical...

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... good advice and guidance to upgrade the quality of my research work II I would also like to extend my thanks to my teammates, Tan Chuan Hoo, Yang Xue, and Wang Xinwei Their suggestions and encouragement ... adoption intention of an organization in an integrative fashion Given the increasing importance of intangible assets such as human capital in gaining competitive advantage for an organization through ... (Rajagopalan 1999; Heide and Weiss 1995; Williamson 1975) in organizational innovation adoption, the inner mechanism of how the two different types of human capital (internal and external to an organization)...

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... Journal of Economic Theory 39: 400-438 Altman, E I., (1968) ''Financial Ratios, Discriminant Analysis and the Prediction of Corporate Bankruptcy'', Journal of Finance, September Ammer, J and F ... Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 4: 201-228 Standard & Poor’s (2001), “Ratings Performance 2000” Weinstein, M, ''The effects of Rating Changes Announcement on Bond Prices'', Journal of ... Rating Changes'', Journal of Finance, 33: 29-44 Pinches, G E and K A Mingo (1973), ''A multivariate Analysis of Industrial Bond Ratings'', Journal of Finance, 28: 1-18 Pogue, T and R Soldofsky (1969),...

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... are grateful to participants of an ECB seminar, and in particular to FéØd éric Holm-Hadulla, Andrew Hughes Hallett, Ludger Schuknecht, Mathias Trabandt, Ad van Riet, and an anonymous referee for ... Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and ... the analysis: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain The table shows the estimated coefficients and their significance...

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... arise because of transaction costs, and because of the passage of time between the formation of a contract and its performance, are those associated with asymetric information and transaction-specific ... that are relevant and useful to the effective implementation of domestic ABS issues Of particular interest was the work by Gandhi and Crase (2009) on governance and the performance of water institutions ... substantial human/people interaction and involvement In this, addressing of issues/perceptions of fairness and justice becomes very important for sustainability and performance Where the rules of...

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... Research Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Lepetit, L et al., 2008, 'Bank income structure and risk: An empirical analysis of European banks', Journal of Banking & Finance, vol 32, no 8, pp ... Bank Eximbank Habubank Vietcombank Bank for investment and development of Vietnam Sacombank Asian Commercial Bank Lienvietpostbank Oceanbank Anbinhbank Mekong Housing Bank Phuongnambank Vietnam ... International Bank Vietnam Prosperity Bank Maritimebank Seabank Military Bank Housing Development Bank Saigon Commercial Bank DongABank Techcombank Navibank NamAbank Mekong Development Bank BacABank BanvietBank...

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... roughness pitch of to Kiml et al [5] reported that the rib roughness arrangement with an angle of attack of 60° shows better heat transfer performance compared to that of the 45° rib arrangement Lau ... performance of solar air heater They reported that the geometry of the rib namely shapes, height, angle of attack and pitch affects significantly the heat transfer and friction characteristics of ... the enhancement of heat transfer to correlate the flow field investigation with the mechanism of heat transfer Experimental setup Two experimental set-ups, one for heat transfer analysis and other...

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... economic yield can be considered to range between 0.75 and 2.00 kg/plant and 4.00 and 6.00 MT per hectare per year depending on agro-climatic zone and agriculture practices One hectare of plantation ... Jatropha plant in Energy park of Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya (R.G.P.V.) Jatropha plant bears fruits from second year of its plantation and the economic yield stabilizes from fourth and ... states of India have reserve a total of 1.72 million hectares of land for Jatropha cultivation and small quantities of Jatropha biodiesel are already being sold to the public sector oil companies...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... project financing, issue of longterm securities, financing of mergers, buyouts and so on One of the many objectives of corporate financial manager is to ensure the lower cost of capital and thus ... financial data of 88 companies are derived from the financial statements on the website of these companies Synthesis and analysis of qualitative data combined with statistical analysis of quantitative ... equity and debt: An empirical study Journal of Finance, 1982, vol.37, p 121-144 Modigliani, F., and M.H Miller, 1958, The cost of capital, corporate finance and the theory of investment, American...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2013, 23:46

... annually that provides an analysis and assessment of the trends of the past year An annual report can help one to understand the strengths and weaknesses of a certain company's business economy, ... accounting financial performance measure It shows profitability of bank Return on equity is an important measure of the profitability of a company Higher values are generally favorable meaning that ... Agrawal A and C.Knoeber (1996),"Firm performance and mechanisms to control agency problems between managers and shareholders", Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis,pp 377-397 [4] Angel...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2013, 23:50

... whole The mean value and standard deviation of price volatility in 2007 are 0.51 and 0.48 respectively The mean value and standard deviation of price volatility in 2008 is largest at 1.48 and 0.54 ... value of 0.04 and standard deviation of 0.04, which imply less volatility Meanwhile, mean value and standard deviation of payout ratio stay at 0.48 and 1.18 respectively Table 3.4 and table 3.5 ... 1.3 Methodology Our study engages in the analysis of a panel of 110 companies listed on Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange between 2007 and 2009 Our empirical analysis is conducted as follows - Descriptive...

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