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Industry-Wide Effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 the Act is perhaps the most notable example of federal legislation aimed at reestablishing corporate accountability and restoring investor confidence. This study examines whether the capital market reactions to the passage of the Act vary among industries. It finds that some industries are positively affected,...
Tags: Capital Market, Finance, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Government, Human Resources, Investment, Management, Policies And Procedures, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Strategy, University Of Memphis
White papers 2005-04-28
The IMF in a World of Private Capital Markets
The IMF attempts to catalyze and stabilize private capital flows to emerging markets by providing public monitoring and emergency finance. In analyzing its role it contrasts cases where banks and bondholders do the lending. Banks have a natural advantage in monitoring and creditor coordination, while bonds have superior risk sharing...
Tags: Bank, Capital Market, IMF, Financial Services
White papers 2005-04-01
Aggregate Investment Dynamics When Firms Face Fixed Investment Cost and Capital Market Imperfections
In this paper a model of aggregate investment is derived which incorporates fixed investment costs and capital market imperfections on the micro-level. Aggregate investment reacts nonlinearly with respect to aggregate shocks to productivity and liquidity of firms. Employing non-parametric kernel estimation methods to analyze a sample of annual account data...
Tags: Capital Market, University Of Dortmund, Investment, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2003-10-01
Investment Banking and Capital Markets
Investment banks earned record profits in the first quarter of 2004. BCG's investment-banking performance index climbed 40 points to a record level of 127.6. Investment banking results were again supported by strong gains in fixed income trading while profit margins remained high due to trading revenues for the top 10...
Tags: Bank, Capital Market, Boston Consulting Group Inc., Profit Margin, Investment Banking, BCG, Financial Services, Investment, Finance
White papers 2004-05-24
Business Process Management in the Capital Markets
This paper signifies that BPM and automation represent the next technology frontier for these organizations. Automation of business processes in capital markets firms may be compared with the promise of factory automation a century ago, but with far greater complexity, risks and rewards. BPM initiatives, properly designed and deployed, can...
Tags: Business Process, Capital Market, BPM, Automation, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Strategy, Investment, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Finance, Software
White papers 2005-03-22
Evolving Paradigms in the Regulatory World
This article focuses on strategies for the regulated environment. With the emerging importance of capital markets as a mechanism for mobilization and distribution of capital, corporations find themselves increasingly looking at earnings stability and shareholder value creation. While the capital market has remained the most efficient institution for allocating public...
Tags: Capital Market, Investment, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2004-05-06
Tackling the Key Issues in Banking and Capital Markets
Central banks are increasingly coming under the spotlight as they face a number of changes and challenges. This paper highlights some of the new and existing opportunities facing the central banking sector in the areas of accounting, reporting, transparency, corporate governance and risk management and explores the importance of evolving...
Tags: Banking, Capital Market, Financial Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
White papers 2005-08-01
Capital Market Overview
Broadly defined, risk budgeting is a framework for discussing the many different forms of risk facing institutional investors. It also is an investment "buzzword" that is often overused or misused by the institutional investment community. It has multiple meanings and may be germane to many different investment decision-making processes. This...
Tags: Capital Market, Budgeting, Decision-making, Investor, Tools & Techniques, Financial Services, Management
White papers 2004-04-12
Comply Now, IPO Later: Factoring Sarbanes-Oxley Into Your Capital Markets Equation
These days it is nearly impossible to pick up a business publication without reading something about the US's Sarbanes-Oxley Act. But while much has been said about how SOA affects public companies, less discussion has focused on how it impacts privately held companies that want to become, or be acquired...
Tags: Capital Market, Ernst & Young LLP, Factoring, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), IPO, Web Services, Sarbanes-Oxley, Middleware, Regulatory Compliance, Investment, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Services, Regulations, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
White papers 2004-11-08
Financial Innovations and the Dynamics of Emerging Capital Markets
Financial innovation is often blamed for what is perceived as an increase in systemic risk - the Asian and Latin American crises being the latest cases in point. Yet financial innovation in the form of different types of derivatives products or financial engineering technologies generally provide low-cost and highly efficient...
Tags: Innovation, Capital Market, Financial, Financial Innovation, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2001-03-26
The Perspective of the Reinsurance and Capital Markets
A broad range of corporate and financial players has become involved in the weather risk management market. This presentation is focused on three basic types of players in the weather risk management market: market makers energy companies and more recently bank, reinsurance companies, and investors (e.g. hedge funds). All of...
Tags: Capital Market, Reinsurance, Risk Management, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Insurance, Strategy, Security, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Management
White papers 2002-11-28
A Portfolio Selection and Capital Asset Pricing Model
The aim of this paper is to improve the characterization of a capital market within the CAPM without losing its simplicity and explanatory power. To highlight the peculiarities of the model, the main steps in the development of the standard CAPM are briefly reviewed. The standard CAPM is extended so...
Tags: Capital Asset Pricing Model, Capital Market, Università Carlo Cattaneo, CAPM, Financial Services, Investment, Finance
White papers 2002-02-06
Monetary Policy, Banking Business and the Capital Market
This white paper deals with Interest rate policy and the money Markets. Given the continuing favorable medium term outlook for prices in the euro area, the Governing Council of the ECB has left the Euro system's key interest rates unchanged in recent months. The minimum bid rate for the main...
Tags: Capital Market, Interest Rate, Banking, Deutsche Bundesbank, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2004-08-01
Risk Transfer between Banks, Insurance Companies and Capital Markets: An Overview
This article describes the interactions, which are effected primarily through securitizations and derivatives. In principle, firms can use risk-transfer markets to disperse risks, making them less vulnerable to particular regional, sectoral or market shocks. Greater inter-dependence, however, raises challenges for market participants and the authorities: in tracking the distribution of...
Tags: Bank, Capital Market, Risk, Bank Of England, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Services, Insurance, Strategy, Financial Planning, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Management
White papers 2001-12-01
Capital Market Liberalization, Economic Growth, and Instability
This white paper reviews briefly the arguments for capital market liberalization, and identifies their theoretical and empirical weaknesses. This provides the foundations for the argument for intervention in short-term capital flows. The paper further concludes with a brief discussion of the various ways in which such interventions may be implemented.
Tags: Capital Market, Reed Elsevier Inc., Investment, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2000-04-27
Evaluation of Exchange-Rate, Capital Market, and Dollarization Regimes in the Presence of Sudden Stops
The literature has not being able to identify clear-cut real effects of exchange-rate regimes on output growth. Similarly, no definitive view emerges from the literature in regard to the effects of open capital markets on macroeconomic performance. The paper attributes the failure of the literature to fundamental flaws, consisting of...
Tags: Capital Market, Investment, Financial Services, Free Trade, Finance
White papers 2005-02-01
Testing Alternative Theories of Property Price-Trading Volume With Commercial Real Estate Market Data
The significant price-trading volume correlation found in the residential property market presents a challenge to the rational expectation hypothesis. Existing theories account for this fact with either capital market imperfection (down-payment effect or loss-aversion consideration) or imperfect information search theoretic models. This paper employs data from both the sale and...
Tags: Capital Market, Theory, Commercial Real Estate, Chinese University Of Hong Kong, Policy Implication, Financial Services, Real Estate, Investment, Business Operations, Finance
White papers 2004-02-01
Contractual Savings or Stock Markets Development: Which Leads?
This paper studies the relationship between the development of contractual savings assets of pension funds and life insurance companies and capital markets. The focus is on the macroeconomic and financial effects of contractual savings' development. New theoretical ideas and empirical results are presented. At the theoretical level, it explains how...
Tags: Capital Market, Financial, World Bank Group, Stock, Savings, Development, Stock Market, Investment, Free Trade, Financial Services, Finance
White papers 2000-08-01
The Road to Extinction: Commons With Capital Markets
Competitive agents extract in continuous time from a commons. Capital market access allows them to both save and borrow against their extraction stream. When the commons asset grows more quickly than the privately stored one, multiple equilibrium is found for intermediate commons endowments. In the limit, as marginal extraction costs...
Tags: Capital Market, Commons, Extinction, Welfare, University Of Birmingham, Investment, Financial Services, Real Estate, Finance, Business Operations
White papers 2004-01-22
Firm Investment, Corporate Finance, and Taxation
This paper examines the intertemporal effect of corporate income taxation on the investment behavior of a firm that faces imperfect capital markets. It shows that when capital markets are imperfect, the optimizing firm goes through different phases of growth. In this dynamic setting, the effect of a corporate tax on...
Tags: Capital Market, IMF, Financing, Taxation, Taxes, Investment, Free Trade, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Finance
White papers 2002-12-01
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