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Analyzing firm-specific factors affecting the financial performance of insurance companies in South Africa [PDF]

open access: yesInsurance Markets and Companies, 2023
This study aims to investigate the effect that firm-specific factors have on the financial performance of South African insurance companies. This paper looked at the performance of 36 insurers that are publicly traded and have quantifiable markets from ...
Thabiso Sthembiso Msomi, Smangele Nzama
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The Size Premium and Intertemporal Risk [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
The size premium only exists in states with good investment opportunities, when the aggregate (median) book-to-market is within the top 30%, for example. The expected annual premium is around 9% in these states and insignificant otherwise. This fact is inconsistent with the unconditional version of the ICAPM, which predicts a negative size premium. The
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Non-linear relationships between house size and price

open access: yesInternational Journal of Strategic Property Management, 2021
This study reexamines the relationship between house size and price by using the quantile regression model. Housing transactions data of the National Taipei University Special Zone in Taiwan are adopted, and the findings are as follows.
Shih-Tao Feng   +3 more
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Willingness to Pay for Potting Mix Containing Eastern Redcedar Biochar under Alternative Information Sets

open access: yesHortTechnology, 2023
Biochar is considered an environmentally friendly potting mix ingredient because it sequesters carbon, and its biomass can be obtained from renewable resources. If the biomass is obtained from the undesirable eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana), then
Pratikshya Silwal   +2 more
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The Real-Time Predictability of the Size and Value Premium in Japan [PDF]

open access: yesPacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2002
In this paper, we examine whether the short-term variation in the size and value premium in the Japanese stock market is sufficiently predictable to be exploited by a tactical timing strategy. In the spirit of Pesaran and Timmermann (1995), we employ a dynamic modeling approach in which we explicitly allow for permutations among the determinants in ...
Bauer, R.M.M.J.   +2 more
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DETERMINATION OF THE URBAN WAGE PREMIUM IN ECUADOR

open access: yesInvestigaciones Regionales - Journal of Regional Research, 2020
This paper aims to determine the urban wage premium in Ecuador. It estimates two wage equations with the nominal and real wage, using instrumental variables to control endogeneity.
Grace Carolina Guevara Rosero   +1 more
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Size and Value Premium in Karachi Stock Exchange

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
Investment decisions are based on the rational return expectations and investors require returns that are aligned with their risk and utility. This phenomenon has been extensively discussed in the financial theory as well as practice and the first known theory of asset pricing leads back to as early as Bachelier (1900).
Nawazish Mirza, Saima Shahid
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PENERAPAN METODE BAYES DALAM MENGESTIMASI PREMI RISIKO PADA ASURANSI PENYAKIT KRITIS

open access: yesE-Jurnal Matematika, 2020
The high number of critical illness cases and the rising medical cost affect the number of insurance claimed. It can be a problem for the insurance company in estimating future claim trend to decide the risk premium cost, so that we need a method to ...
SISILIA MARTINA UTAMI AGUSTINI   +2 more
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Corporate sustainability and asset pricing models: empirical evidence for the Brazilian stock market

open access: yesProduction, 2016
The paper investigates the impact of corporate sustainability on asset prices. For that purpose, we develop a novel corporate sustainability factor and test the extent to which this factor is priced in an augmented four-factor version of the traditional ...
Vitor Gonçalves de Azevedo   +2 more
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Firm Size and Employment during the Pandemic

open access: yesSocius, 2021
Previous studies have established that firm size is associated with a wage premium, but the wage premium has declined in recent decades. The authors examine the risk for unemployment by firm size during the initial outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 in
Ken-Hou Lin   +2 more
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