Trinity Business School (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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The financial economics of gold - A survey
(2015)We review the literature on gold as an investment. We summarize a wide variety of literature, including the papers in this special issue of International Review of Financial Analysis to which this survey acts as an editorial ... -
Psychological barriers in oil futures markets
(2016)WTI and Brent futures are tested for the presence of psychological barriers around $10 price levels, applying a multiple hypothesis testing approach for statistical robustness. Psychological barriers are found to be present ... -
Culture's Influences: An investigation of inter-country differences in capital structure
(2014)Employing firm-level observations from 13 countries over a seven year period, and controlling for an extensive set of firm-level characteristics, industry effects and country-level institutional variables, we provide a ... -
Do Bubbles occur in the Gold Price? An investigation of Gold Lease Rates and Markov Switching Models
(2014)We assess whether two classes of bubbles occur in the spot price of gold, rational speculative and periodically bursting bubbles, using gold?s lease rates for the first time in the literature as a measure of its fundamental ... -
Do Financial Reporting and Audit Quality Support Economic Growth and Development? A Post-Modernist Re-interpretation
(University of Nis, 2013)It is generally accepted, nowadays, that reliable financial information is a prerequisite of a robust market economy and efficient public sector. This position has been strengthened by the recent financial crisis, where ... -
What will I do? Toward an existential ethics for first person action research practice
(Rainer HamppVerlag, 2013-12)How first person practice engages with the process of valuing has not received much attention in action research. This article takes the question, `what will I do?? as the foundation for first person ethical inquiry. It ... -
Ranking Universities Based on Performance Evaluation by a Hybrid MCDM Model
(2012)The aims of this study are to weight the performance evaluation indices for higher education based on the official performance evaluation structure developed by the Taiwan Assessment and Evaluation Association (TWAEA) and ... -
A Network Hierarchical Feedback System for Taiwanese Universities based on the Integration of Total Quality Management and Innovation
(Elsevier, 2012)An increasing number of Taiwanese universities are improving operational performance through innovation and total quality management (TQM). In addition, the National Quality Award (NQA), which is based on TQM, is now used ... -
On the road to performance governance in the public domain?
(2012)Structured Abstract: Purpose ? This article assesses how performance management in the public domain has evolved over the last several years both in terms of theory and practice in selected countries. The paper also acts ... -
Global Stock Market Interdependencies and long-term Portfolio Diversification
(2011)In this paper, we examine the scope for international stock portfolio diversification, from the viewpoint of a United States representative investor, in regard to both the Asian and the European stock markets. Our findings ...