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Browsing Theses & Dissertations by Thesis (Discipline) "Finance, Information Systems, & Management Science"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The objective of this study is to evaluate the comparative financial performance of Islamic and conventional banks. To undertake a rigorous comparative study, profitability, liability and liquidity ratios of Islamic banks ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)This paper investigates the underpricing level of A-shares and B-shares IPO companies listed in the Chinese stock market from 1991 to 2010. The sample covers 84 IPOs of listed companies with 42 A-shares and 42 B-shares. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper investigates into the effect of dividend increase announcements to US and China financial market by selecting 30 stocks in Shanghai Stock Exchange and 40 stocks in New York Stock Exchange during the period of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary’s University, 2012)Private companies represent a large percentage of the world’s businesses. Interestingly, most corporate finance research focuses on public companies. The only reason for this is that the wealth of information on public ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)In context of the Canadian markets, the aim of this study was to establish a relationship between corporate governance and cash holdings and using governance metrics based on Globe and Mail corporate governance data, we ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This study examines the direct impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the cost of bank debt in a strictly Canadian context. Bank loan information for large, publicly owed, Canadian firms is combined with CSR ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)This paper uses VAR to measure the risk of Canadian mutual funds and to determine the correlation between the risk. And I built two equations to do the analysis. I use Equation 3.2 to expose the correlation between the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2016)This thesis presents an architecture and design of a mobile healthcare application supporting the next generation electronic medical and pharmaceutical enterprise resource planning systems. The proposed mobile application ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper examines and analyzes the effect of the increase in dividend announcements on the stock price on the Toronto Stocks Exchange, by selecting 50 firms from different sectors which announce increases in dividends ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The twenty first century started with the sixth merger wave and a tremendous increase has been observed in the number of corporate mergers and acquisitions since 2003. This study investigates whether the announcements of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This study is conducted to examine the impact of M&As post 2008 crisis on firm value. Specifically, we highlight the impact of M&As on the acquirer and target of the US financial firms in addition to their combined effect. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Momentum effect is a market anomaly. It indicates that past winners in the stock market keep over-performing past losers over the short run namely, one to twelve months. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the ...
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Does the cross-listing premium that Canadian firms gain also reflect their own default probabilities (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)Cross-listing has been a popular strategy for business expansion and seems always to be followed by appreciation in firm value. Previous theories explain the existence of this stock premium either due to risk reduction, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper tests whether changes in bank regulation will have any impact on financial sectors in China. The historical data on stock prices of the “big four” banks are collected through 2008 to 2013. To study the impact ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)In this paper we try to investigate the effect of corporate governance on the cost of external debt financing. Using a sample of North American companies from 1990 to 2006, we find that high corporate governance levels ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Using a sample 150 firms that were recently added to the S&P 500 Index, we investigate whether corporate social responsibility ratings alters stock response after addition to the S&P 500 Index. We define and construct an ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of firm-specific characteristics on firms’ security issuance choice among straight debt, convertible debt and equity in Canada. Firms in this study are Canadian and listed ...
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(2012)This paper studied the relationship between employment and FDI in China. China has been the largest recipient of FDI, and it is in the critical moment of economic structural adjustment. So the research of the relationship ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This study investigates whether the relationship between international diversification on manufacturing and service firms’ performance is linear or non-linear. This study was conducted by selecting a sample of 335 US based ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)An empirical investigation in U.S. technology sector is done in this paper using event study methodology to find out existence of significant abnormal returns surrounding stock split announcements. The average abnormal ...
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