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Does investor attention influence water companies’ stock returns?
2020
Abstract The potential impacts of climate change and population growth are having serious effects on the energy and agricultural industries, which might compromise water availability. Water scarcity requires the global water industry to examine the rapidly changing market and, together with public initiatives, make innovative investments to guarantee better water management models. Therefore, from an investor's perspective, it is important to understand what might influence water companies’ stock returns. This paper analyzes how the energy and agriculture industries and the growing environmental awareness of investors influence water companies’ stock returns. Panel data on the monthly stock…
The Impact of Monetary Policy on Bank Profitability
2020
This chapter analyzes the effect of the monetary policy on both net interest margin and bank profitability using a panel data from 31 OECD countries over the period 2000–2017. The main results show that expansionary monetary policy measures adopted in numerous economies had a negative impact on net interest margins and, therefore, on bank profitability. The relationship between interest rates and the slope of the yield curve with both the net interest margin and profitability is non-linear, more specifically concave. This suggests that the negative impact of low interest rates and the flat yield curve is greater the lower and flattened they are, respectively. Therefore, a potential normaliz…
Managing expert knowledge in water network expansion project implementation
2021
[EN] The implementation of expansion projects of water networks supplying growing cities is deemed to be a complex decision-making problem involving both technical aspects and expert knowledge. Management and control processes must rely on experts in the field whose know-how must be coupled with techniques able to deal with the natural subjectivity that affects input evaluations. Given the presence of many decision-making elements, the choice of proper hydraulic technical parameters may be linked to the main aspects of analysis requiring formal expert evaluation. In this contribution, the simulation of hydraulic indicators is integrated with a multi-criteria approach able to eventually dete…
Nodokļu politikas loma investīciju piesaistē Centrālās un Austrumeiropas valstīs
2015
Pēdējos gados gan ES, gan pārējā pasaulē aktualizējies jautājums par valstu piekoptās nodokļu politikas „pareizību”, tās atbilstību mūsdienu reālijām. Šis jautājums kļuvis īpaši aktuāls pēc 2007. – 2008. gada finanšu krīzes, kas plosīja visu pasauli un noveda pie vairākām izmaiņām starptautiskās finanšu sistēmas pārraudzībā. Ņemot vērā attīstīto valstu lielos parādus, kā arī ekonomisko stagnāciju eurozonā, vērojama „nežēlīga” sāncensība valstu starpā par investīciju piesaisti to ekonomiskās attīstības veicināšanai. Līdz ar to dotā pētījuma mērķis ir, balstoties uz zinātnisko publikāciju analīzes rezultātiem, kā arī autora izstrādāto ekonometrisko modeļu interpretāciju, noskaidrot, kādu lomu…
Designing robust immediate release tablet formulations avoiding food effects for BCS class 3 drugs
2019
Abstract Food induced viscosity in the gastrointestinal tract is reported to reduce the bioavailability of tablets containing BCS class 3 drugs, mainly by retarding their disintegration and dissolution of the active pharmaceutical ingredient. The role of formulation factors in minimizing this negative food effect is largely unknown. Combinations of disintegrants were studied together with soluble and insoluble fillers and trospium chloride as model drug substance. Different batches of tablets were compressed at 10 kN and 30 kN, by incorporating different combinations of croscarmellose sodium (CSS), cross-linked (CPD) and sodium starch glycolate (SSG) at low level i.e, 2% + 2% and high level…
A preliminary study of presence of resveratrol in skins and pulps of European and Japanese plum cultivars
2012
BACKGROUND: Resveratrol is a polyphenol with health properties being mainly present in the skins of several foods. However, any study has been carried out to analyze the presence of this stilbene in the plum fruit from the genus Prunus in European and Japanese cultivars. RESULTS: The analysis of resveratrol from the skin in different cultivars of plums from Spanish markets with liquid chromatography coupled to ultraviolet (LC-UV) detector with subsequent confirmation by LC-MS/MS has been demonstrated that contents of this compound in plums ranged from 0.1 to 6.2 µg/g. CONCLUSIONS: Values of resveratrol in European plum cultivars is higher than in Japanese cultivars. Copyright © 2012 Society…
Upstream Product Market Regulations, ICT, R&D and Productivity
2017
Our study aims to assess the actual importance of the two main channels via which upstream anti-competitive sector regulations are usually considered to impact productivity growth, i.e. by acting as a disincentive to business investments in R&D and in ICT. We estimate the specific impacts of these two channels and their shares in the total impact as opposed to alternative channels of investments in other forms of intangible capital that we cannot explicitly consider for lack of appropriate data such as improvements in skills, management and organization. To achieve this, we specify an extended production function explicitly relating productivity to R&D and ICT capital as well as to upstream…
Selection Correction in Panel Data Models: An Application to Labour Supply and Wages
2000
In recent years a number of panel estimators have been suggested for sample selection models, where both the selection equation and the equation of interest contain individual effects which are correlated with the explanatory variables. We review and compare some of these estimators, and apply them to estimating the return to actual labour market experience for females, using a panel of twelve years. All these estimators rely on the assumption of strict exogeneity of regressors in the equation of interest, conditional on individual specific effects and the selection mechanism. This assumption is likely to be violated in many applications. Also, life history variables are often measured with…
Determinants of Board Size, Composition and Leadership
2018
Using a 14-year panel data set on the Standard and Poor’s 1500 firms, this chapter examines the trends and determinants of corporate board structure (Board size, independence and CEO duality). Our hypotheses lead to predictions that firm complexity and advising requirements, the costs of monitoring and advising, ownership structure and CEO characteristics are important determinants of board structure. Our findings provide strong empirical evidence in support of these hypotheses. We also find some evidence that the Sarbanes–Oxley Act has had an impact on board structure and its determinants.
Insight into genetic susceptibility to male breast cancer by multigene panel testing: results from a multicenter study in Italy
2019
Breast cancer (BC) in men is rare and genetic predisposition is likely to play a relevant role in its etiology. Inherited mutations in BRCA1/2 account for about 13% of all cases and additional genes that may contribute to the missing heritability need to be investigated. In our study, a well-characterized series of 523 male BC (MBC) patients from the Italian multicenter study on MBC, enriched for non-BRCA1/2 MBC cases, was screened by a multigene custom panel of 50 cancer-associated genes. The main clinical-pathologic characteristics of MBC in pathogenic variant carriers and non-carriers were also compared. BRCA1/2 pathogenic variants were detected in twenty patients, thus, a total of 503 n…