Gulseven, Osman
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Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
This study examines the monthly returns in Turkish and American stock market indices to investigate whether these markets experience abnormal returns during some months of the calendar year. The data used in this research includes 212 observations between January 1996 and August 2014. I apply statistical summary analysis, decomposition technique, d...
Asgarnezhad Nouri, Bagher Motamedi, Samira Soltani, Milad
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Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
Behavioral science in the field of finance and investment is among new topics raised in recent years. The relationship between financial sciences and other fields of social sciences such as financial psychology has caused researchers to do many researches regarding the behavior of investors in the financial markets and their reactions to different ...
Procházka, David
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Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
The paper reviews recent literature on the specifics of adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by the new EU members from the Central and Eastern Europe. Despite being members of the EU or OECD, the transition to a standard developed economy has not yet finished. The first part of the paper presents macroeconomic statistics ...
Sokolovska, Olena
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Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
The presence of different risk factors in international trade gives evidence of the necessity of support in gaps that may affect exporters’ activity. To maximize the trade volumes and in the same time to minimize the exporters’ risks the stakeholders use trade credit insurance. The paper provides analysis of conceptual background of the trade credi...
Uriesi, Sebastian
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Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
The present research examined the influences of pay for performance programs on employee performance in the Romanian context, by comparing a sample of employees in companies in which such programs are implemented to a sample of employees in organizations in which performance is not used as a criterion in deciding financial rewards. Results show tha...
Navickas, Valentinas Svazas, Mantas
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Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
The Future production systems’ increasing significance will impose work, which maintains not a competitive, but a collaboration basis, with concentrated resources and expertise, which can help to reach the general purpose. One form of collaboration among medium-size business organizations is work in clusters. Clusterization as a phenomenon has been...
Mendoza, Rufo Rivera, John Paolo R.
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Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
This paper examines the credit risk and capital adequacy of the 567 rural banks in the Philippines to investigate how both variables affect bank profitability. Using the Arellano-Bond estimator, we found out that credit risk has a negative and statistically significant relationship with profitability. However, empirical analysis showed that capital...
Çolak, Olcay Palaz, Serap
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Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
Occupational accidents are among the most important issues of the agenda of working life in Turkey recently. Recently the causes and consequences of occupational accidents which are related to human, occupational and environmental factors have received great attention from the researchers but it has been paid little attention to focused on economic...
Rizkallah, Elias G. Seitz, Victoria
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Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
This paper explores what motivates college students at different stages of their academic studies. Using Herzberg’s two-factor theory, the researchers conducted a survey of 535 students in three south-western universities to determine if motivations changed throughout their academic careers. Results showed that students at different stages of their...
Vintilă, Georgeta Păunescu, Radu Alin
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Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics
We tested empirically through econometric methods the classic CAPM model for 15 shares listed on the NASDAQ market in United States of America. The results showed that, for the majority of shares, there is a linear relation between expected return and market return. The shares of the largest companies from sample (AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, etc. INTC) had ...