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(2019-08-12)Master EconomicsThis study examines the (Cumulative) Average Abnormal Returns ((CAR) ̅ / (AR) ̅) of 171 NASDAQ Composite Index listed takeover targets in the period 2009-2018 to investigate whether abnormal returns are being made prior ... -
(2018-08-18)Master EconomicsThis paper examines investors’ reference point and satisfaction. We demonstrate that investors’ reference point and satisfaction are heavily affected by stock and market returns. Using an experimental design, we analyze ... -
(2019-08-15)Master EconomicsThe last decade several democracies throughout the world have been disrupted. On numerous occasions the incumbent leader has taken undemocratic measures, making the democracy shift from a democracy toward a hybrid regime. ...
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(2018-08-31)Master EconomicsMutual credit systems (MCSs), a type of complementary currency, are thought to have a countercyclical function by providing additional credit in times of recession. Past research has also focused on trust and social values ...
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(2019-07-04)Master EconomicsThis study is focused on how accountability and ethics are related and how that relationship does influence behavior in a big four firm. A case study is carried out in the audit department of a big four firm in the ...
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(2017-06-10)Master EconomicsThis thesis discusses how and why accountability and ethics relate and how they influence behaviour in accountancy firms in the Netherlands. An interpretive field study is carried out in two separate but similar accountancy ...
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(2016-12-19)Master EconomicsThis thesis examines whether accounting quality is a mediating factor between the mandatory adoption of IFRS and cost of equity capital. This is done using the following research question: To what extent does accounting ...
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(2018-08-27)Master EconomicsIn this thesis I follow up a recent mergers and acquisitions (M&A) study (Alexandridis et al., 2017) that documents findings which challenge mainstream M&A theory. The results of said study suggest that, in the last few ...
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(2019-08-26)Master EconomicsIn a sample of acquirer companies from USA, which are dominant in the field of artificial intelligence, I analyze the returns after M&A activity. I find that the cumulative abnormal returns are higher for the targets that ...
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(2021-07-26)Master EconomicsIn this paper, I use the government ownership to build an adjusted factor model for stocks in China’s stock market. Two methods are used to build the government ownership factor. The empirical results show that the adjusted ...
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(2017-03-29)Master EconomicsThe objective of this research is to provide insight into the institutionalization of the adoption and further processing of teleworking. The next question was formulated to guide this research to its objective: How and ...
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(2022-07-22)Master EconomicsInternationalizing companies seem more common in the contemporary economy. However, these companies have to handle with a liability of foreignness, as mainstream research suggests. Newer investigations in this topic find ...
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(2020-08-21)Master EconomicsThe aim of this paper is to show the assumed positive relationships between agricultural innovation, average education years, democracy, and institutional quality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Agricultural innovation is ...
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(2020-12-15)Master EconomicsThe housing prices in the United States and the Netherlands have been growing after the crisis in 2007. Until the crisis in 2007, house prices also increased. According to Boelhouwer (2017) a bubble in a market is when ...
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(2016-08-25)Master EconomicsThis study investigates whether the Kuznets curve relationship is supported by using another proxy of economic development as applied to developing countries. Using data from 17 countries with 154 subnational regions for ...
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(2017-05-22)Master EconomicsThe increasing number of refugees fleeing to the European Union including, the Netherlands, have a significant burden on the government budget as well as have some relevant implications on the economic and social life. In ...
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(2020-08-25)Master EconomicsTheoretical work in the past decades has argued that the increasing concentration of ownership by institutional investors may lead to decreased competition between commonly owned companies, resulting in inefficient market ...
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(2022-07-03)Master EconomicsThis master’s thesis analyzes the effect anxiety has on both the voter turnout and the level of democracy. Ronald Wintrobe argues in his working paper called ‘21 Reasons and a simple model of why liberal democracy is in ...
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(2021-08-10)Master EconomicsThis paper applies the Pincus Index to quantify the randomness of stock market 10 indexes of 13 developing as well as 3 developed European countries and compares 11 the results with those of Smith (2012) who applied five ...
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(2022-08-25)Master EconomicsARE TRADITIONAL ASSETS PRICING MODELS ALSO USEABLE TOOLS IN EXPLAINING THE RETURNS OF CRYPTOCURRENCY? TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION, THREE ASSET PRICING MODELS ARE COMPARED. BY USING TIME SERIES AND CROSS SECTIONAL REGRESSIONS, ...
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