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...

BACKGROUND Equity in health care entails payment for health services according to the capacity to pay and the receipt of benefits according to need. In Uganda, as in many African countries, although equity is extolled in government policy documents, not much is known about who pays for, and who benefits from, health services. This paper assesses both equity in the financing and distribution of ...

The purpose of present study is to explore impact of marketing mix (price, firm image, distribution intensity, promotion and propaganda) on the brand equity of Asia Insurance Firm in view of its customers and prioritizing of these elements based on significance of their impacts. The statistical population includes customers of Asia Insurance Firm in Shiraz, IRAN. Data is collected using questio...

Analysis of the equity premium puzzle has focused on private-sector capital markets. However, the existence of an anomalous equity premium raises important issues in the evaluation of public-sector investment projects. These issues are explored below. We begin by formalizing the argument that an equity premium may arise from uninsurable systematic risk in labour income, and show that, other thi...

A decades-long trend toward greater racial and ethnic diversity in the United States is expected to continue, with White Americans projected to constitute less than 50% of the national population by mid century. The present review integrates recent empirical research on the effects of making this population change salient with research on how actual diversity affects Whites Americans’ intergrou...

This paper empirically analyzes a particular type of notes observed in securitization transactions: combination notes. Combination notes are formed by combining parts of two or more tranches of securitization transactions, where one part usually consists of a share of the first loss piece. It is analyzed whether combination notes are purely demand driven, or whether combination notes also appea...

Although brand equity is a widely accepted concept, its definition is frustratingly elusive (Knowles, 2008). Our aim thereby is to point the direction for future research on the conceptualization of brand equity, as well as to encourage theoretical and empirical studies that assess its possible consequences. We argue for the need to distinguish between brand equity and brand value, which, altho...

the purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between customer equity and the performance of parsian international hotels corporation. for this reason it’s an applied and descriptive research. a review of the current literature revealed three key determinants of customer equity: (1)value equity, (2) brand equity and (3) relationship equity. in order to examine the proposed hy...

Abstract The study explores the most powerful between Bitcoin and Gold in boosting Shariah Equity Index Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, China, Indonesia, States of America (USA), Japan, Oman, Saudi Arabia short long term. uses analysis first second stages Granger Causality Test Vector Error Correction Model (VECM), then Impulse Response Function (IRF) Variance Decomposition (VDC) over period 20...