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AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INFLOWS IN NIGERIA [PDF]
Oradea Journal of Business and Economics, 2023 This study investigated the relationship between the measures of institutional quality provided by the World Bank, World Governance Indicators and foreign direct investment inflows in Nigeria.
Idris Abiodun Adenuga
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GMM Estimation with Noncausal Instruments [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 Lagged variables are often used as instruments when the generalized method of moments (GMM) is applied to time series data. We show that if these variables follow noncausal autoregressive processes, their lags are not valid instruments and the GMM estimator is inconsistent.
Lanne Markku, Saikkonen Pentti
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CGMVAE: Coupling GMM Prior and GMM Estimator for Unsupervised Clustering and Disentanglement [PDF]
IEEE Access, 2021 Impressive progress has been recently witnessed on deep unsupervised clustering and feature disentanglement. In this paper, we propose a novel method on top of one recent architecture with a novel explanation of Gaussian mixture model (GMM) membership, accompanied by a GMM loss to enhance the clustering.
Chunzhi Gu +3 more
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Generalized Majority-Minority Operations are Tractable [PDF]
, 2005 Generalized majority-minority (GMM) operations are introduced as a common generalization of near unanimity operations and Mal'tsev operations on finite sets.
Prakash Panangaden, Victor Dalmau
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Institutional Investors Ownership and Financial Performance: An Empirical Study of CAC40 Companies [PDF]
Management and Economics ReviewThe purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of ownership by institutional investors on the financial performance of a sample of 15 French firms that were listed between 2015 and 2022 on the CAC40 index.
Sarra BOUDERMINE, Djamel KEDDAM
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Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers and Economic Growth: Evidence from Asian Emerging Countries
Ekuilibrium: Jurnal Ilmiah Bidan Ilmu Ekonomi, 2021 Research on FDI in promoting economic growth has been the focus of recent decades, especially in developing countries. Foreign direct investment can be one of the main objectives in increasing economic growth.
Lodi Bagus Rismawan +2 more
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Porting concepts from DNNs back to GMMs [PDF]
, 2013 Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown to outperform Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) on a variety of speech recognition benchmarks. In this paper we analyze the differences between the DNN and GMM modeling techniques and port the best ideas from the ...
Demuynck, Kris, Triefenbach, Fabian
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Ownership concentration, firm life cycle, and leverage: Evidence from Italian family firms
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2020 We examine the impact of ownership concentration, firm life cycle, and family ownership on leverage using a sample of listed Italian firms. The study findings reveal that family businesses in Italy have high ownership concentration and use less debt than
William Mbanyele
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A comparative study on zinc fertilizer brands available in the markets of Jessore region
International Journal of Agricultural Research, Innovation and Technology, 2017 A study was conducted in Monirampur upazila under Jessore district from July to December, 2016 to collect information on names, numbers and comparative availability of different brands of Zinc fertilizers in order to aid the assessment of nutrient status
GMM Islam
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RAM. Revista de Administração Mackenzie, 2022 Purpose: This study aims to analyze the effects of crisis periods on the relationship between internationalization and the working capital requirement (WCR), from 2010 to 2018, using publicly-traded Brazilian firms as a sample. Originality/value: This
Arthur A. S. Rosa +2 more
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