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(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), AAA 2007 Conference & AFAANZ 2007 Conference, 2007)This study finds that the agency problems of companies with high free cash flow (FCF) and low growth opportunities induce auditors of companies in the United States to raise audit fees to compensate for the additional ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), AAA 2007 Conference & AFAANZ 2007 Conference, 2007)This study finds that the agency problems of companies with high free cash flow (FCF) and low growth opportunities induce auditors of companies in the United States to raise audit fees to compensate for the additional ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Department of Finance, Seminar, 2006)This study explores analyst annual earnings forecasts in New Zealand. The results show that forecasts of New Zealand firms do not suffer from the pessimistic biases found in studies of forecasts for United States firms. ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago Department of Finance Seminar Series, 2004)Previous studies document a negative and significant return to equity on the announcement of a seasoned equity offering. However, the effects of such an announcement on the firms other securities has received little ... -
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(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), Computer and Information Science Seminar Series, 2009)Pure Data (Pd) is a graphical data-flow environment for multimedia, created by Miller Puckette of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at UCSD. It’s a fun, versatile and intuitive environment providing high-level ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Department of Finance, Seminar, 2006)Fund and other investments often exhibit longer run volatility associated with macroeconomic or other dynamics to an extent inconsistent with the efficient market accumulation model. Volatility and performance models or ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago Department of Finance Seminar Series, 2005)I use new data made available by the 1993 Companies Act to examine trends in CEO and non-CEO executive employee (NCEE) pay and related governance issues. Following mandatory disclosure on 1 July 1997, real CEO and NCEE ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago Department of Finance Seminar Series, 2005)Empirical evidence on the distributional characteristics of common stock returns indicates: 1) A power-law with exponent > 2 describes the positive tail behavior of the survivor function of returns ( pr(r > x ) – x-u ) ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Department of Finance, Seminar, 2006)We have estimated the cost of capital for the New Zealand listed non-finance corporate sector by the corporate internal rate of return method adopted by Fama and French (1999). The real IRR on value is 1.87% and IRR on ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago Department of Finance Seminar Series, 2005)A super-efficiency model within Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was used to study the relative efficiency of New Zealand banks for the period 1996 to 2003. Evidence was found for improvement in efficiency, although it was ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Paper published in proceedings)Conference or Workshop Item (Poster), ASCILITE 2012, 2012)StudySmart is an online course designed for second year medical students at the University of Otago. This course was designed to replace a two hour library and information skills lab, and comprises a series of topics, tasks ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Finance department, Seminar 2001, 2001)This paper examines the performance of the stock holdings and trades of a sample of Australian fund managers over the period from 1990 to 1997. When stockholdings are observable, performance measures can be constructed ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), Computer and Information Science Seminar Series, 2004)About two years ago the database papers in the Information Science Department started to migrate towards an XML based document creation infrastructure (from a mixture of PowerPoint and LaTeX). We are now at the stage where ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), Finance Seminars for 2001, 2001)In this paper we show the effects that outliers have on estimation and inference for ARCH models. We propose an empirically tractable solution to this problem by replacing outliers with their conditional expectations ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago Department of Finance Seminar Series, 2004)We provide arguments and present evidence that corporate governance structures are endogenous responses to the costs and benefits firms face when they choose the mechanisms that comprise those structures. In particular, ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Finance department, Seminar, 2007)This paper uses Indian stock futures data to explore unbiased expectations and efficient market hypothesis. Having experienced voluminous transactions within a short time span after its establishment, the Indian stock ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Department of Finance, Seminar, 2006)We report evidence on the choice between explicit (written) and implicit contracting for a sample of agreements between CEOs and their firms. Fewer than half of S&P 500 CEOs have explicit contracts. Evidence on the ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago Department of Finance Seminar Series, 2004)Banks are generally failed and placed in receivership when the value of their assets declines below the value of their deposits and other debt, so that the value of their capital (net worth) becomes negative. As a result, ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago Department of Finance Seminar Series, 2002)This paper provides an exposition of the nature, means of estimation and uses of Financial Conditions Indexes (FCIs) and their relationship to the more common Monetary Conditions Indexes (MCIs) that are used by market ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago Department of Finance Seminar Series, 2004)This paper investigated the efficiency of the Korean capital market with respect to fiscal and monetary policies. For this purpose, the paper applied FIML technique to a set of monthly data over the period 1982.01 to ...
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