Finance and Markets in UK Law
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Where are Islamic finance indices pointing towards?. Lessons from experimental ‘pockets’ of Islamic financial regulation on international stock markets
Purpose: This paper aims to survey the screening practices and regulatory arrangements that can be gleaned from the experience of Islamic financial indices on international stock markets. Such indi...
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Dual Credit Markets and Household Usage to Finance: Evidence from a Representative Chinese Household Survey
Using a new and representative data set of Chinese household finance, we document household usage and costs of finance, along with their correlates. As in many developing countries, informal credit...
- Book Review: Philip G. Cerny (ed.), Finance and World Politics: Markets, Regimes and States in the Post-hegemonic Era (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, Studies in International Political Economy Series, 1993. 234 pp., £39.95 hbk.)
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Led by finance: Greg Scanlon ACMA, CGMA, senior manager with Pfizer's finance portfolio management and optimisation group, reports on how he led a project to extend the pharmaceutical giant's financial shared-services model into emerging markets.
...THE BACKGROUND Pfizer markets medicines, vaccines and many well-known consumer healthcare products in both the developed and developing world. By 2012 we had established commercial and manufacturing finance teams in a number of emerging economies, bu......
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Predicted property investment returns: risk and growth models
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the principal measures of performance used in property and other investment types. In particular, the briefing will explore the relationship of the ...... ... models is akin to the Fisher and Gordon growth models used inother finance markets.Practical implications –This comparison of the models can work ... ...
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Time on the market and commercial property prices
Property markets are considered efficient when the market price of a transacted property equates with its market worth. If this condition holds then identical properties should sell or let for the ...... ... , University of Paisley, UKKeywords Property marketing, Property finance, Pricing policy, Rental valueAbstract Property markets are considered ... ...
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Capital flows and office markets in major global cities
Purpose: Office markets and particularly international financial centres over the past decade have experienced rapid financialisation, developments and indeed changes in the post-global financial c...... ... The literature highlights howoffices in global financial centres interlock occupation, ownership and finance, through thegrowing globalization of real estate ownership and innovation in real estate investmentvehicles, thereby integrating finance and real ... ...
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The institutional context of financial fraud in a post-transition economy: The Quaestor scandal
The article will analyse the greatest Hungarian securities fraud to date: the Quaestor scandal. Quaestor was a holding of several companies, including one of Hungary’s biggest investment adviser an...... ... how the institutional context of economic action on the financial markets was conductive to the fraud. Two major factors in particular will be sized: the political economy of finance, especially the underdeveloped nature of financial markets and the lack of ... ...
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Transparency in the German real estate market
Purpose: German real estate markets used to show little transparency in the past. This has changed over the last 15 years. The purpose of this study therefore is to examine the current state of tra...... ... Estate, Eschborn, GermanyAbstractPurpose – German real estate markets used to show little transparency in the past. This has changedover the ... Real Estate Research began in 1987 and the Journal ofReal Estate Finance and Economics in 1988. Several urban economics journals havebeen published ... ...
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The need for more research on the Asian real estate markets
Purpose: The Asian real estate markets have grown considerably in recent years and have taken on increased investment importance, particularly with significant developments in the emerging markets ...... ... We are also seeing databases in China (oftenin Chinese) becoming more accessible; this includes finance databases (e.g. Wind) and real-estate-specificdatabases(e.g. China IndexAcademy, CRICChina,China RealEstate InformationCorp.).All of these data ... ...
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