an empirical study of ten transition economies

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20

... 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 ... 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 ... decisions in a transition market : empirical analysis of firms in Egypt Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting , 32, 211-233 33 Fama, E., and K French, 2002, Testing trade-off and pecking...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2013, 23:46

... List of Vietnamese Banks used in current study No Code Name of Bank Agribank Agriculture and Rural Development Bank ABBank An Binh Commercial Joint Stock Bank ACB Asia Commercial Bank VCB Bank ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2013, 23:50

... summaries consist of a) picking the first n sentences out of a set of selected documents (with different values for n and different sets of documents) and b) taking the full content of a few documents ... On the other hand, all baselines improve, and some of them (SentenceSim precision and perplexity) give better results than both ROUGE and NICOS Of course, no reliable conclusion can be obtained ... similarity metric that cannot distinguish manual and automatic reports cannot be a good metric Then, all we need is an estimation of how well a similarity metric separates manual and automatic reports...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 15:20

... conducted an empirical study of Chinese chunking We compared the performance of four models, SVMs, CRFs, MBL, and TBL 103 Heng Li, Jonathan J Webster, Chunyu Kit, and Tianshun Yao 2003a Transductive ... Huang, and Anthony Kroch 2000 The bracketing guidelines for the penn chinese treebank Technical report, University of Pennsylvania Hongqiao Li, Changning Huang, Jianfeng Gao, and Xiaozhong Fan ... chunking with another type of spec In The Third SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing Yuqi Zhang and Qiang Zhou 2002 Chinese basephrases chunking In Proceedings of The First SIGHAN Workshop...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21

... Towards an Information Visualization Workspace: Combining Multiple Means of Expression Human-Computer Interaction Journal Young, M R “Using Grice's Maxim of Quantity to Select the Content of Plan ... value tree and a set of component value functions, one for each primitive attribute of the entity A value tree is a decomposition of the value of an entity into a hierarchy of aspects of the entity2, ... subject, for k ranging from to –1 The constant k In the definition of s-notably-compelling?, the constant k determines the lower bound of scompellingness for an objective to be included in an argument...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 05:20

... FF3, and IE7 participants answered the same way 4.2.4 Impact of Reading and Understanding In each of the first two sections of the exit survey we asked participants if they “read the text of the ... certca.html [6] S Egelman, L F Cranor, and J Hong You’ve been warned: an empirical study of the effectiveness of web browser phishing warnings In Proceeding of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in ... at an equal rate to users of the FF2 and IE7 warnings Our single page warning was not significantly different than any of the other warnings The FF3 warning caused significantly more participants...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 19:20

... magazines, and textbooks It contains 208,000 sentences We selected randomly 20,000 sentences for training and Hiragana and katakana are phonetic characters which represent Japanese syllables Katakana ... between a kanji character and a hiragana character Of course, there are quite a few exceptions to this heuristics For example, some proper nouns are written in mixed hiragana, kanji and katakana The ... smaller one because the nal accuracy of the former is higher than that of the latter The variance ắ of a set of selected examples is dened ĩ Table 1: Variances of Selected Examples 16.87 16.66 Iteration...

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Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 01:20

... categories and subcategories on findings from an analysis of those data, and then tested them through an analysis of the authentic data Having established addition categories, I answered the third and ... process of decoding and re-encoding So, laypersons tend to think of interpreters as conduits, or as channels, through which prepared messages go back and forth Indeed interpreters often think of themselves ... number of words in a speaker’s original utterance to the number of words in the interpreter’s translation of his utterance In other words, if there seems to be a discrepancy between the length of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2014, 11:03

... An Empirical Study of Audit Quality in China From the Perspectives of Regulators and the Accounting Profession Certificate of Originality Abstract Acknowledgements i Table of Contents List of ... of many transitional and developing economies, means that the quality of audit services plays an important role in ensuring the proper functioning of the financial reporting systems, and helps ... Abstract An Empirical Study of Audit Quality in China From the Perspectives of Regulators and the Accounting Profession by Wong Man Kong, Raymond Doctor of Philosophy The effective functioning of securities...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:43

... environmental performance is a potential source for competitive advantage and following this are improvements in productivity, increased profitability and lower cost of compliance Theoretical and empirical ... litigation, and the intangible asset value of the Standard and Poor’s 500 list of Corporations This study demonstrated a significantly positive effect of these two environmental performances on ... measures of financial performance, e.g profitability For this assessment, this study analyzes the effect of air pollution control using a panel of Czech firms for the years 1996-1998 The analytical...

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2015, 08:42

... discrepancy Hence, the determinant variable was still able to explain the variance of purchase intent of luxury goods Table 4.8 ANOVA of simple regression analysis Sum of Model df Squares Mean Square ... that can maximize opportunities and minimize obstacles This -7- study with deep understanding of consumers‟ intent to buy luxury goods can help the luxury firms‟ managers have a higher chance ... consumers when there are many and many people can afford to buy a luxury product The difference between this kind of goods and other kinds of commodities is that luxury goods are often very expensive,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/04/2015, 16:29

... Gupta and Pawan Pandey, for helping me decide between an enticing industry job offer and a PhD Those who assisted me in the data gathering and entering process – Sumeet Nagdev, Shivajee Dewangan, ... detailed review of the concept of information Information Need ‘consists of the process of perceiving a difference between an ideal state of knowledge and the actual state of knowledge’ (van de Wijngaert, ... understanding of those needs we are able better to understand what meaning information has in the everyday life of people; and by all of the foregoing we should have a better understanding of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:07

... information management in organizations In the USA, for example, there are ten thousand of newspapers and magazines, more than 100,000 new book titles published every day, and over 60 billion pieces of ... perceived content quality and perceived content understandability, a pilot study was conducted and exploration factor analysis was applied to empirically confirm the independent dimensionality of the ... production of print, film, optical, and magnetic content would require roughly 1.5 billion gigabytes of storage This is the equivalent of 250 megabytes per person for each man, woman, and child...

Ngày tải lên: 28/09/2015, 13:21

... AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF DATA MODEL AND QUERY LANGUAGE ON NOVICE USER QUERY PERFORMANCE XIANG LIAN (B.Mgt Wuhan University,China) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ... opportunity to thank Dr Ooi Beng Chin and Dr Huang Zhiyong for all their guidance and caring in both my study and personal life during my stay in the school of computing of NUS My special thanks go to ... an experiment on the effect of data model and query languages on query performance (Chan et al., 1999), as well as the development of new conceptual query languages (Owei and Navathe, 2001) and...

Ngày tải lên: 28/09/2015, 13:21

... Regression of No of Auctions) 54 Table 5-5 : Results of Model (Poisson Regression of No of Bids) 56 Table 5-6 : Results of Model (Poisson Regression of No of Auctions) 57 Table 5-7 : Results of ... Burnham et al., 2003) Hannan and Freeman (1984) explain the linkage of structural inertia and organization change using switching costs Their results suggest that even under unpleasant situation customers ... still be reluctant to give up what they are doing with the existence of switching costs Similarly, switching cost of an information system can affect the retention of customers and explain the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 21:33

... merits of tender, auction and quotation modes as a solution to abusive and corrupt land use.11 For instance, an article by Zhang Yanhua, deputy general director of the Department of Land and Resources ... Assignment and Transfer of the Right to the Use of the State-owned Land in the Urban Areas and the Provisional Regulations of the PRC on Granting and Transferring the Right to the Use of State-Owned land ... practices Zhang, Xu and Wang (2011) conducted an empirical study to examine the effects of central-local contentions on corruption Using panel data of land law violations between 1999 and 2007,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2015, 15:54

... governance is more efficient than hierarchical firm governance structure because of the benefits of competition, and such acceptance is often called the production cost advantages of the market (Coase, ... practical and a good forecaster for service quality measurement (Sureshchandar, Rajendran, & Anantharaman, 2002) However, no model can be said to be faultless and SERVQUAL model is not an exemption and ... issues, and drivers of consumer satisfaction with and preference for the online game Customer satisfaction can be evaluated through an assessment of the quality of efficiency, content and service...

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2015, 15:38

... (1984) Organisational Behavior and Management Boston: Kent Publishing Company Locke, E A (1968) Toward a theory of task motivation and incentives Organizational behavior and human performance, 3(2), ... Management, 21, 445-445 Viswesvaran, C., Deshpande, S P., & Joseph, J (1998) Job satisfaction as a function of top management support for ethical behavior: A study of Indian managers Journal of ... Work and Support Network Satisfaction Journal of Employment Counseling, 23, Morgan, R., McDonagh, P and Ryan, T (1995) „Employee Job Satisfaction: an Empirical Assessment of Marketing Managers...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2013, 11:44