Objective: Market anomalieschange with economic conditions, stock markets, selected samples, time periods and differences between industries. Revision of past forecasts leads to forecast error. The revisions result from new information. On the other hand, some managers slowly revise their forecasts in responding to new information. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate the r...

This study analyzed the economics of feeding dried poultry droppings as supplement in ram production. Gross margin analysis and profitability ratio was used to analyze the data collected. The result of the budgetary analysis revealed that highest total cost of ₦5292.98/ram was incurred, highest total revenue of ₦7565.40/ram, highest gross margin of ₦3272.41/ram and highest net farm income of ₦2...

This paper constructs a model in which the currency composition of national portfolios is an essential element in facilitating capital ‡ows between countries. In a two country environment, each country chooses optimal nominal bond portfolios in face of real and nominal risk. Current account de…cits are …nanced by increases in domestic currency debt, but balanced by increases in foreign currency...

The main theme of this chapter is that univariate time series are everywhere in empirical economics. We suggest tools for a deeper understanding of them. Certain macroeconomic time series such as GNP have been studied by univariate time series methods by many authors. Most are published as “seasonally” adjusted. In Finance, the stock returns are also widely studied by these methods for so calle...

We analyze the performance of retail firms for the period 1978-97 using public financial data. Our performance measures are long-term stock returns and whether the firm filed for bankruptcy in the period of study. We assume that over a long time period of at least five years, stock returns are a reasonable measure of the overall success of a firm. We have found a very wide disparity in performa...

In today’s global electronics industry, innovation is carried out by various value chain participants, including brand-name manufacturers (sometimes called lead firms), contract manufacturers and component suppliers, but there is little understanding of who benefits most from innovation in such networks. This research examines empirically the relationship of R&D spending and location in the val...

Barber and Odean (2000) study the relationship between trading frequency and returns. They find that households who trade more frequently have a lower net return than other households. But all households have about the same gross return. They argue that these results cannot emerge from a model with rational traders and instead attribute these findings to overconfidence. Using a dynamic optimiza...

This study examined the effect of social and environmental disclosure respectively on gross profit margin (GPM) return capital employed (ROCE) manufacturing firms in Nigeria. was prompted by dearth literature sustainability reporting (SR) inexistence Nigerian based SR standards guidelines. The adopted <i>ex-post facto</i> research design while data were gathered from annual reports ...

This paper attempts to use microsimulation methods to compare returns to education in four European countries, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom. This paper broadens the type of measure used to measure the return to education to include interactions with public taxtransfer systems and to consider the effect of differential employment rates on education. Mincer style wage equations ...

This research was conducted at PT. Unilever Indonesia Tbk which lasts for 6 (six) months. The problem in this study is the fluctuation or decrease and increase profit growth annually. method used a quantitative form of multiple linear regression analysis, correlation coefficient determination, F test t test. purpose to analyze determine effect current ratio, return on assets, gross margin, tota...