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W artykule badano związek poziomu asymetrii informacji z zakresem wykorzystania długu krótkoterminowego przez przedsiębiorstwa w 5 państwach Europy: we Francji, w Grecji, Niemczech, Wielkiej Brytanii oraz Włoszech. Asymetria informacja była mierzona za pomocą Syntetycznej Miary Asymetrii Informacji skonstruowanej na podstawie 9 wskaźników. Przedstawione analizy wskazują na to, że zgodnie z oczekiwaniami...
The aim of this article is to examine, on the example of companies whose shares are to be included into the WIG20 index portfolio, whether the index effect occurs on the Polish stock market. Based on the study event conducted in 2010–2014 (first quarter) it was demonstrated that abnormal positive returns of new index participants occurred mainly before the announcement of the information about the...
Jednym ze zjawisk obserwowanych w gospodarce są oszustwa podatkowe w podatkach dochodowych. Zjawisko to można ograniczać, między innymi, poprzez szacowanie podstawy opodatkowania. Przepisy wskazują różne metody szacowania podstawy opodatkowania. Pozwalają również na stosowanie metod innych niż wymienione w przepisach. Celem pracy jest ocena konieczności opracowania metod szacowania podstawy opodatkowania...
Abstract: This paper addresses the strength of the incentives from both supervisors and market players to use authorized capital application as a risk management tool. The study contrasts the motivational factors for the financial market in transition and market supervisor. It analyses the interaction between motivation and the application of authorized capital as a risk management tool. We challenge...
The aim of the paper is to is to explore the determinants of the rationality in decision making among polish stock market investors with different level of expertise with investing. Rationality in decision making was defined from the behavioral finance point of view and was operationalized as the frequency of some behavioral biases (see: the certainty effect) within decision making process. In particular,...
Investor expectations about the course of future economic processes are one of the key factors influencing their decisions. It seems that expectations play a particular role because they constitute unobservable variables that can account for observable economic phenomena. Getting to know the process of how investor expectations are formed is a crucial element of description, interpretation and forecasting...
The article presents a concept of capital management for assembling investment portfolios. Two optimization variants of a portfolio to be purchased are discussed. Portfolio I is structural, using the „traditional model”. To assemble Portfolio II, elements of reliability theory and the dynamic programming method were used. The article also analyses the sale of a portfolio with respect to the demand...
The purpose of the research was to assess the price behavior of initial public offerings (IPO) of equities listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange from 1996 to 2010. We also aimed to observe IPO underpricing and the underperformance phenomenon with different approaches. Short-term performance was analyzed with raw and adjusted initial returns. For the long-term, abnormal returns were compounded and cumulated...
The study examined the short-term price behavior of initial public offerings (IPOs) of equities listed on the top emerging market exchanges during the period from 2005 to 2012. We investigated whether underpricing could be explained with models based on stakeholder rationality and those concerning behavioral factors. There were extremely high initial, two- and four-week returns in the three top emerging...
Money is not merely a highly exchangeable commodity or the symbol of value established in exchange by utility-seeking individuals. Private money is a value sui generis that is established by reactions between issuers-shadow banking and users of money. These relations can be explained by the behavioral theory of finance and neoclassic theory of finance. Shadow banking and classical banking relations...
Behavioural finance is a promising solution to enhance voluntary retirement savings (VRS) and is gaining recognition around the world. Despite this, there may be some limitations to the transferability of its applications. This paper summarizes the key findings relevant to long-term savings and then analyses these aforementioned limitations, by first pointing to some methodological assumptions made,...
The main goal of this article is to verify the hypothesis on the behavioural character of the relationships between enterprises financing football in Poland and the fans of this sport. In his research, the author analyses selected companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange which are engaged in financing football in the Polish Ekstraklasa. The author uses the quotations of such companies as: Ruch...
We review the theory and evidence on IPO activity and underpricing focusing on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and confirm that many IPO phenomena in Poland are not stationary. Focusing on the behavioural reasons for underpricing, we investigate the accuracy of analysts’ valuations made prior to initial public offerings. Using a unique set of data, we find a disappointing lack of accuracy, not only in the...
Abstract: The objective article is the comparative analysis of Likert rating scale based on the following range of response categories, i.e. 5, 7, 9 and 11 in context of the appropriate process of factors extraction in exploratory factor analysis (EFA). The problem which is being addressed in article relates primarily to the methodological aspects, both in selection of the optimal number of response...
This article presents a proposal of the test for detecting changes in trend. The proposed procedure refers to the permutation test. The use of this procedure allowed the adoption of fairly general assumptions. The proposed method can be used, in particular to detect the appearance of the trend. In this case, it is possible to use this method to monitor industrial processes. The proposed method was...
The paper presents chosen methods for estimating the ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) curve, including parametric and nonparametric procedures. Nonparametric approach may involve the use of empirical method or kernel method of the ROC curve estimation. In the analysis, an attempt of comparison of empirical and kernel ROC estimators is done, considering the impact of sample size, choice of...
Discriminant Analysis can best be defined as a technique which allows the classification of an individual into several dictinctive populations on the basis of a set of measurements. Stepwise discriminant analysis (SDA) is concerned with selecting the most important variables whilst retaining the highest discrimination power possible. The process of selecting a smaller number of variables is often...
The paper deals with the problem of determining the chemical balance weighing designs satisfying the criterion of D-optimality under assumption that the measurement errors are equal correlated and they have the same variances. The existence conditions and the form of the optimal design are given. Moreover, some construction methods of the design matrices based on the incidence matrices of the balanced...
The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the effect of a professional effectiveness enhancing programme on unemployment spells.The analysedprogramme was implemented by the PoviatLabour Office in Szczecin in 2010 and was targeted at under 30 year-olds. The survival analysis methods are going to be the starting point for the study. The differences in unemployment spells will be examined by means of the...
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