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• Spillovers From Foreign Direct Investment: A Meta Analysis

  BNET - 2005-12-03

  The extensive empirical literature analyzing productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment to local firms provides inconclusive results. Some studies find that foreign presence has a positive impact on the productivity of domestic firms, while others find no evidence or a negative effect. Differences in the results may be attributable to...

  Tags: Result, Spillover, Analysis, Foreign Direct Investment, University Of Reading, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Finance

• An Analysis Of The Relevance Of OBS Items In Explaining Productivity Change In European Banking

  BNET - 2003-11-12

  The 1990s have witnessed a significant growth in bank income generated through non-traditional activities especially for large EU universal institutions. Using the non-parametric Malmquist methodology this paper analyses the importance of the inclusion of Off-Balance Sheet OBS business in the definition of banks output when estimating total factor productivity change...

  Tags: Analysis, University Of Reading, Total Factor Productivity

• Is there a "Case for Property" all the Time

  BNET - 2002-11-04

  This paper discusses "case for property" in the mixed-asset portfolio, which is a topic of continuing interest to practitioners and academics. Such an analysis typically is performed over a fixed period of time and the optimum allocation to property inferred from the weight assigned to property through the use of...

  Tags: Property, Analysis, University Of Reading

• A Meta Analysis of Real Estate Fund Performance

  BNET - 2002-05-13

  This paper provides evidence regarding the risk-adjusted performance of 19 UK real estate funds in the UK, over the period 1991-2001. Using Jensen's alpha the results are generally favorable towards the hypothesis that real estate fund managers showed superior risk-adjusted performance over this period. However, the paper then utilizes the...

  Tags: Performance, Analysis, University Of Reading, Real Estate, Performance Management, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management

• Continental Shift? An Analysis of Convergence Trends in European Real Estate Equities

  BNET - 2002-05-13

  This paper investigates the effects of this 'event' on the behavior of stock returns in European real estate companies. A range of statistical tests is applied to the performance of European property companies to test for changes in segmentation, co-movement, and causality. The results suggest that, relative to the wider...

  Tags: Analysis, Convergence, University Of Reading, Performance Management, Real Estate, Investment, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Finance

• Persistence of UK Real Estate Returns: A Markov Chain Analysis

  BNET - 2000-10-01

  The persistence of investment performance is a topic of perennial interest to investors. The problem has been of particular interest to investors in real estate; not least because reported returns from investment in real estate are serially correlated thus implying some persistence in investment performance. This paper applies the established...

  Tags: Analysis, University Of Reading, Real Estate, Performance Management, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance

• Attribution Analysis of Property Portfolios

  BNET - 2000-05-30

  This paper aims to clarify the potential confusion about the application of attribution analysis to real estate portfolios. Its three primary objectives are viz; To review, and as far as possible reconcile, the varying approaches to attribution analysis evident in the literature, To give a clear statement of the purposes...

  Tags: Analysis, University Of Reading, Attribution Analysis, Real Estate, Performance Management, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management