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Human Capital Contracts: "Equity-Like" Instruments For Financing Higher Education
White Papers This paper discusses the shortcomings of fixed-payment student loans and the reasons that "equity-like" instruments are better suited for students' needs. The paper describes human capital contracts, discusses their major advantages, and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The Long-Run Performance Of Global Equity Offerings
White Papers This study investigates the long-run return performance of non-U.S.firms that raise equity capital in U.S.markets. Overall, our sample of 333 global equity offerings with U.S.depositary receipt (ADR) trenches from 35 countries in Asia, Latin...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Will Pay Equity Close The 'Pay Gap' Between Men And Women?
White Papers The government recently announced the establishment of a taskforce to progress pay and employment equity between men and women in the public sector. This paper seeks to analyse the underlying issues around pay equity.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Housing, House Prices, And The Equity Premium Puzzle
White Papers Many recent papers have claimed that when housing services are treated separately from other forms of consumption in utility, a wide range of economic puzzles such as the equity premium puzzle can be explained.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Thought Equity Delivers Film And Video Content Four Times Faster With Sun StorageTek T10000 Tape Drive
White Papers Thought Equity Management, Inc.is the worldwide leader in motion imagery licensing and management for the entertainment, creative and corporate production industries. Thought Equity added a high-capacity, high-throughput Sun StorageTek tape drive...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
An Examination Of The Equity Market Response To The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Across Commercial Banking, Investment Banking, And Insurance Firms
White Papers To conclude, it is shown that life insurance firms to be the biggest equity beneficiaries followed by the other three groups. This paper investigates the stock market impact of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
A Further Equity Premium Puzzle
White Papers Mehra and Prescott (1985) point out that it is difficult to reconcile certain empirical facts about equity and debt returns and the process of consumption growth with reasonable assumptions about the relative rate of risk aversion and the pure...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Home Equity Handbook
Downloads The Home Equity Handbook contains very useful information on getting the Best Home Equity Loans, Fixed Rate Home Equity Loan, Home Equity Lines of Credit, Loan Calculator, Loan Companies, Interest Rates, Comparisons, Refinancing, Tax Deductions...
[October 31, 2006, 5:46]
Tough Problems Solved: IBM Customer Equity & Lifetime Management (CELM)
White Papers IBM's Customer Equity and Lifetime Management (CELM) is a powerful analytical customer retention management solution developed by an IBM ODIS team. Small companies often have the luxury of recognizing their customers by sight, and knowing their...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Home Equity Loan
Downloads Home Equity Loan calculator helps you to calculate loans and mortgages repayments and create amortization schedule. Home Equity Loan includes the ability to easily calculate amortization schedules for American, Canadian and UK mortgages, personal...
[August 31, 2005, 2:01]
Gravitas Technology Case Study: Leading Equity Long/Short Hedge Fund
White Papers The client is a U.S.equity long/short hedge fund. The challenge was to design, implement, and support disaster recovery solutions for their email and high-volume trade order management system. Gravitas Technology designed and implemented a complete...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The Impact Of Japan's Financial Stabilization Laws On Bank Equity Values
White Papers Using an event study framework, this paper examines the evidence in equity markets concerning the anticipated impact of the regulatory reforms. In the fall of 1998, two important financial regulatory reform acts were passed in Japan.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Avaya Sells Out To Private-equity Firms
News Avaya has been sold to two private-equity firms. The private-equity firms snatched Avaya away at the last minute from a likely purchase by its rival Nortel. The struggling VoIP equipment manufacturer announced the $8.2bn (£4.1bn) acquisition of its...
[June 5, 2007, 13:01]
Equity Rider Standard Edition
Downloads Equity Rider is an advanced stock charting and trading systems analysis software for many markets: stocks, and futures. It allows you to create custom indicators, derive indicators based on standard ones, and plot them on charts Real-Time or...
[November 3, 2006, 14:01]
Private-equity Firm Buys Into Palm
News Palm is selling a 25 percent stake to private-equity firm Elevation Partners for $325m (£163m) and is bringing in Jon Rubinstein, who formerly ran the iPod division at Apple, as executive chairman of the board.
[June 4, 2007, 17:20]
Private Equity Snaps Up O2 Airwave
News After months of speculation, private equity has finally snapped up O2 Airwave, the mobile operator's emergency services digital radio network. Guardian Digital Communications will take over Airwave. The company is owned jointly by two of Australian...
[April 23, 2007, 11:48]
Alternative Methods For Projecting Equity Returns: Implications For Evaluating Social Security Reform Proposals
White Papers In particular, correlations between equity returns and market fundamentals (such as the dividend price ratio) are weak at annual frequencies, which has led some to conclude that a random returns (fixed mean and variance) model is the preferred...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Forsythe Technology Case Study: A Small Home Equity/Mortgage Lender
White Papers A recent audit had revealed that a small home equity/mortgage lender was at risk of incurring penalties for violating state and federal regulations regarding business continuity planning. Not only could a crisis potentially put them out of business...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Collaborative Online/Offline Sales & Marketing: Enhancing Brand Equity, Decreasing Customer Defection, Diminishing Channel Conflict
White Papers As a marketer, the brands you represent depend on you for strategies that protect and enhance them.eCommerce can present peril or prodigy to brand equity & positioning. Brand control is at great risk in this Internet age where the lines of...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Evidence Of Excess Returns On Firms That Issue Or Repurchase Equity
White Papers At the aggregate level Fama and French (1988) and Poterba and Summers (1988) find that stock returns are serially correlated.This paper presents evidence that the stock of those firms that repurchase equity outperforms the stock of those firms...
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