This study has reviewed the lived experience of social and cultural active Kurdish women using qualitative methods and the Grounded Theory. The purpose of this study is identifying their attitude and practical responses to "gender inequality". Due to comparing two different aspects of these women's lived experience, at the end of the study, two paradigmatic models are obtained. The analysis of ...

We analyze the ex-post variation of equity prices in the frequency domain. A realized periodogram-based estimator is proposed, which consistently estimates the quadratic variation of the log equilibrium price process. For prices which are contaminated by market microstructure noise, the proposed estimator behaves like a filter: it removes the noise by filtering out high frequency periodograms. ...

We investigate the size distribution of equity mutual funds. We show that the heavy tail of the upper size distribution of equity funds is best described by a log-normal as opposed to a power law. The size of an equity fund was taken to be the real dollar value of the Total Assets Managed by the equity fund as given in the CRSP database. Previous analysis of the mutual fund industry treated the...

in responses to norheim’s editorial, this commentary offers reflections from thailand, how the five unacceptable trade-offs were applied to the universal health coverage (uhc) reforms between 1975 and 2002 when the whole 64 million people were covered by one of the three public health insurance systems. this commentary aims to generate global discussions on how best uhc can be gradually achieve...

In this paper we examine whether information risk affects underwriter switching in a seasoned equity offering (SEO) process. Building on previous research, we hypothesize that SEO firms and underwriters associate with one another by mutual choice, and firms with a low degree of information risk tend to match up with prestigious underwriters. Using a sample of SEO firms in China and employing ac...