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Tackling False Positives in Finance: A Statistical Toolbox with Applications

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
Serious concerns have been raised that false positive findings are widespread in empirical research in business research including finance. This is largely because researchers almost exclusively adopt the ``p-value less than 0.05" criterion for statistical significance; and they are often not fully aware of large-sample biases which can potentially ...
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Positioning Climate Finance in the Post 2015 Development Agenda

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
By the end of 2015, we will see a new global development agenda which will substitute the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). If we look at the years after the adoption of the MDGs, there is no doubt that the development goals have been successful in focusing governments’ attention on poverty eradication, by setting clear outcome indicators and ...
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Drilling Program Financing and the Operator Risk/Return Position

Proceedings of SPE Economics and Evaluation Symposium, 1977
Society of Petroleum Engineers 6200 North Central Expressway Dallas, Texas 75206 THIS PAPER IS SUBJECT TO CORRECTION American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc. Introduction The purpose of the drilling program is to raise venture capital for
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Normative public finance without guilt: why normative public finance is positive public finance

2002
There is a long-standing difference amongst public economists between those who think that collective choice must be formally acknowledged, and those who derive their policy recommendations from a social planning framework in which politics plays no role.
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Informational Criteria for Positive and Negative Bubbles: An Experiment in Forensic Finance [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
The notion of bubbles is ubiquitous in the public discussion of finance. Yet, the empirical discovery of bubbles is notoriously difficult. The main shortcoming of the current approaches is that they rely on the estimation of the “fundamental value of an asset”, which is hard to estimate and interpret.
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Positive externalities of domestic biogas initiatives: Implications for financing

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2008
Domestic biogas programs are often justified on the basis of the private benefits and costs accruing to the individual households, in terms of providing a superior cooking fuel, improved indoor air quality and saving of time spent on collecting firewood.
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The Global City

, 1992
Massive and parallel changes have occurred in New York City since the late 1970s and in London and Tokyo since the early 1980s. What transformed these urban centers, with their diverse histories, into "global cities" that share comparable economic and ...
S. Sassen
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Positioning Asia in a Global Future? An Example through Rethinking Finance

positions: asia critique, 2012
As a response to positions' twentieth-anniversary workshop that solicited suggestions on the future direction of the journal, this article raises questions on how to study Asia without falling into traps of reproducing capitalist discourse that reduces the significance of Asia to its economic value.
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Proposal for Changes in the Financing System of the EU Budget Poland’s Position

The Polish Review, 2015
Abstract The present system of financing the budget of the European Union (EU) has been criticized for many years, and there are many good reasons for replacing a substantial share of the existing resources with EU taxes. The EU Commission has recently presented a proposal for two new EU taxes: a new value-added tax (VAT) and a foreign ...
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Putting Integrity into Finance: A Positive Approach (PDF of Keynote Slides)

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Finance theory and practice are incomplete without an integrated theory of integrity. Following Erhard, Jensen and Zaffron (2007) I define integrity without reference to morals, values, religion, or ethics. Something is in integrity if it is whole, complete and sound.
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