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Browsing Major Research Projects by Author "Dodds, J. C. (James Colin)"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper investigates the effects of pre-IPO banking relationships on a firm’s IPO. Using the data set, which compares the firm’s pre-IPO banking relationships to the underwriters managing the firm’s new issue, I test ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Credit risk is the greatest and essential risk of a commercial bank, but also it is one of the core elements that the commercial bank should control in its operations. The research on the credit risk management of commercial ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper’s objective is to determine whether merger announcements of world automobile companies would influence the stock price of acquired companies and whether the market reaction to merger announcement is good or bad. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper introduced theoretically financial distress and early warning mechanisms, including the plight of the meaning of the formation process, diagnosis and analysis and the financial distress prediction models. It ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)Emerging markets are experiencing fast economic development, the especially in Brazil, Russia, India and China, which are so called BRIC nations. BRIC banking industry is facing a difficult decision, whether they should ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)The paper utilizes an event study to test whether there is an abnormal return from corporate restructuring announcements in the Shanghai Stock Exchange. We obtain data of abnormal returns and cumulative abnormal return ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This study investigates the impact of capital structure on the performance of non-financial firms operating in Saudi Arabia for the period between 2008 and 2012. Sample data includes 67 companies from 13 different sectors. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Investors are becoming increasingly interested in international diversification due to the emergence of new capital markets and liberalization of stock markets in recent years. This allows them to have a large basket of ...
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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)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, 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, 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)This paper analyses the relationship between stock returns and Indian rupee-US Dollar Exchange Rates. Several statistical tests have been applied in order to study the behavior and dynamics of both the series. The paper ...
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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)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, 2013)The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between the WTI spot oil price and exchange rates. The data used covers from January 1991 to August 2012 with monthly data. The study used exchange rates for the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)This paper seeks to evaluate the impact of the announcement of the Volcker rule on the performance of the stock prices /return on Bank Holding Companies in the US. In order to test the effect of this policy change, daily ...
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