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Therefore, the impact of auditor industry expertise on firms’ cost of debt should only apply to firms with Level 2 and 3 fair value inputs.. Consequently, we put forward

contributes to a better understanding in four dimensions; it (i) develops a stylized model of speculative foreign exchange (FX) trading which highlights the hedging component of

The high frequency spectral shift is negative as expected since the currency pairs in panel B combine exchange rates for which the optimal arbitrage portfolio prescribes long and

We investigate the determinants of fi rms ’ use of foreign currency derivatives in emerging markets exposed to currency crises. We develop a model where a fi rm with

At the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) in April 2011, shareholders approved the payment of a dividend of 0.60 Swiss francs per share, out of the capital

ABB Annual Report 2010 | Financial review 129 The table below provides an overview of the total compensation of members of the Executive Committee in 2009, comprising

We illustrate the usefulness of our geometric representation of multi-periods optimal policies and mean variance frontiers by discussing specific issued related to AL portfolios:

In their view, the language of the nobles, an early form of Chinese, lacked any agricultural and commercial vocabulary: the historical Chinese vocabulary of agriculture and