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Article
Publication date: 1 June 2000

Parvez Ahmed, Kristine Beck and Elizabeth Goldreyer

Outlines previous research on stock market efficiency and technical trading rules in both developed and emerging markets. Uses variable moving average (VMA) models to develop five…

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Outlines previous research on stock market efficiency and technical trading rules in both developed and emerging markets. Uses variable moving average (VMA) models to develop five technical trading rules and applies them to markets in Taiwan, Thailand and The Phillippines 1994‐1999. Compares results with the US and Japan indices and a simple buy and hold strategy. Finds the VMA rules gave higher returns in Taiwan and very much higher returns in Thailand and The Phillippines, even after transaction costs, but not in Japan and the USA. Considers the reasons why and calls for further research.

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Managerial Finance, vol. 26 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4358

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Article
Publication date: 1 June 1984

Daniel Druckman and Justin Green

The following report on political risk in the Phillippines is an abbreviated version of a detailed study. The full report presents the theoretical underpinnings for the model, as…

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The following report on political risk in the Phillippines is an abbreviated version of a detailed study. The full report presents the theoretical underpinnings for the model, as well as a detailed rationale for all measurement decisions. The model's estimate of regime stability prior to and following the Aquino assassination has been borne out by subsequent events. While increasing his vulnerability somewhat, the assassination has not reduced Marcos' effective power to a level where regime stability is threatened. The report is distributed by Booz Allen & Hamilton, Bethesda, Maryland, to its political risk group clients.

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Planning Review, vol. 12 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0094-064X

Article
Publication date: 1 April 2000

Weiping Liu

Traces China’s foreign debt policy from 1978 to the present and compares its short and long term debt structure with Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Phillippines and Thailand…

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Traces China’s foreign debt policy from 1978 to the present and compares its short and long term debt structure with Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Phillippines and Thailand (i.e. five countries suffering from the Asian economic crisis). Points out that in the 1980s, when all six had high growth rates, China had a severe financial crisis while the others did not: a situation reversed in the 1990s. Compares four debt service capacity indicators for the six, using data from 1983‐1990 and 1991‐1997 to explore the factors causing financial crisis and shows that the ratio of short‐term to total debt is the most important indicator. Discusses the implications for the policies of developing countries and warns that “the hot‐bed for...financial crises still exists”.

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Managerial Finance, vol. 26 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4358

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Article
Publication date: 1 September 2005

Christopher A. Miller

To offer a conference report on the Enriching Indigenous Southeast Asian Collections in Libraries Conference held in Makati City, Manila, Philippines, 20‐21 April 2005.

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Purpose

To offer a conference report on the Enriching Indigenous Southeast Asian Collections in Libraries Conference held in Makati City, Manila, Philippines, 20‐21 April 2005.

Design/methodology/approach

introduction and description of conference overview and specific paper presentations.

Findings

Southeast Asian librarianship and information retrieval both within the region and abroad is expanding to include the widespread collection of ephemeral, local indigenous materials, which presents certain challenges that are the focus of the conference.

Practical implications

Increasing the reach of a network of highly trained Southeast Asian librarians and information professionals.

Originality/value

Librarians, scholars, and students of Southeast Asian studies, equipped with increasingly peripheral materials, will possess the tools necessary for continued research beyond the confines of the traditional center and majority populations. Local librarians are becoming empowered with the knowledge and technical skills to better preserve and supply access to indigenous materials.

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Library Hi Tech News, vol. 22 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0741-9058

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Book part
Publication date: 29 December 2016

Ehab Yamani

This chapter identifies three crisis warning indicators driven from trading in emerging markets’ carry trades, and empirically examines whether these indicators could predict two…

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This chapter identifies three crisis warning indicators driven from trading in emerging markets’ carry trades, and empirically examines whether these indicators could predict two major financial crises that hit the global financial markets in the last decades — The 1997–1998 Asian crisis and the 2007–2008 global crisis. The probit regression is used to examine the power of the three indicators in forecasting financial crises, using data from eight Asian emerging countries which serve as proxies for emerging markets, independent of the origination of the crisis. I use both fixed effect and random effect estimation to measure crisis impacts. The empirical results show that financial crises could have been predicted. Probit estimation show that carry trade returns can predict a financial crisis, and the estimation results are robust to both panel level and country-level analysis. These three indicators are by no means an exhaustive list of all possible predictors of financial crisis. The literature suggests other fundamental indicators of financial crises such as the current account deficit and foreign debt. However, this chapter cannot fully consider these indicators for lack of data at this point in time. Although financial crisis may be better predicted by the well-known fundamental indicators, the contribution of this chapter is simply that carry trade-related indicators can help in predicting crises.

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Risk Management in Emerging Markets
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78635-451-8

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Publication date: 1 October 2004

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Pigment & Resin Technology, vol. 33 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0369-9420

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Article
Publication date: 1 May 1990

Kam‐Hon Lee

A critical review of the papers from the Development of ChineseBanking Conference held in Hong Kong in October 1986. Topics coveredinclude regional studies; competitive…

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A critical review of the papers from the Development of Chinese Banking Conference held in Hong Kong in October 1986. Topics covered include regional studies; competitive strategies, a strategic marketing review; management perceptions of marketing effectiveness; Chinese banking and economic development issues.

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Marketing Intelligence & Planning, vol. 8 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0263-4503

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Publication date: 1 February 1971

Equipment, Programmes, Techniques and Projects. An informal approval has been given by the British Aircraft Corporation, Weybridge Division, Systems Department to the performance…

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Equipment, Programmes, Techniques and Projects. An informal approval has been given by the British Aircraft Corporation, Weybridge Division, Systems Department to the performance of Epsylon Industries Ltd's new, Expanded Mini‐EFDAS (Epsylon Flight Data Acquisition System) a commercial airborne data recording system of high accuracy and reliability.

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Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, vol. 43 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0002-2667

Article
Publication date: 1 October 1974

MOST COMPANIES these days can only reflect bitterly and moan about how much inflation is costing them each year. Unilever, however, is an old hand at the game of maximising…

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MOST COMPANIES these days can only reflect bitterly and moan about how much inflation is costing them each year. Unilever, however, is an old hand at the game of maximising resources in the face of rising prices.

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Industrial Management, vol. 74 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0007-6929

Book part
Publication date: 10 December 2018

Rina Agarwala and Jennifer Jihye Chun

Gender is a defining feature of informal/precarious work in the twenty-first century, yet studies rarely adopt a gendered lens when examining collective efforts to challenge…

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Gender is a defining feature of informal/precarious work in the twenty-first century, yet studies rarely adopt a gendered lens when examining collective efforts to challenge informality and precarity. This chapter foregrounds the gendered dimensions of informal/precarious workers’ struggles as a crucial starting point for re-theorizing the future of global labor movements. Drawing upon the findings of the volume’s six chapters spanning five countries (the United States, Canada, South Korea, Mexico, and India) and two gender-typed sectors (domestic work and construction), this chapter explores how gender is intertwined into informal/precarious workers’ movements, why gender is addressed, and to what end. Across countries and sectors, informal/precarious worker organizations are on the front lines of challenging the multiple forms of gendered inequalities that shape contemporary practices of accumulation and labor regulation. They expose the forgotten reality that class structures not only represent classification struggles around work, but also around social identities, such as gender, race, and migration status. However, these organizing efforts are not fighting to transform the gendered division of labor or embarking on revolutionary struggles to overturn private ownership and liberalized markets. Nonetheless, these struggles are making major transformations in terms of increasing women’s leadership and membership in labor movements and exposing how gender interacts with other ascriptive identities to shape work. They are also radicalizing hegemonic scripts of capitalist accumulation, development, and even gender to attain recognition for female-dominated occupations and reproductive needs for the first time ever. These outcomes are crucial as sources of emancipatory transformations at a time when state and public support for labor and social protection is facing a deep assault stemming from the pressures of transnational production and globalizing markets.

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Gendering Struggles against Informal and Precarious Work
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78769-368-5

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