Economic growth is the most common goal in any economy, and capital is one of the most important determinants of growth. In the last few decades, the use of securities in various countries' capital markets has expanded and has become an essential part of the economic system supplying the capital need for investors and other institutions. This study aims to analyze the effect of securities used ...

This paper analyzes the relationship between structured finance par coupon spreads at issuance and the securities' credit performance. Using structured finance securities including asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations issued in the U.S. during 1998-2004, we find spreads vary substantially by rating, over time, and across asset classes; the spreads on s...

BACKGROUND The study investigated the perspective of people with mobility limitations (PWML) in Zambia, firstly of their accessibility to public buildings and spaces, and secondly of how their capacity to participate in a preferred lifestyle has been affected. OBJECTIVES Firstly to provide insight into the participation experiences of PWML in the social, cultural, economic, political and civi...

BACKGROUND Mobility-related fatigue and low socioeconomic position predicts mobility limitations and disability in old age, but the interplay between these two factors is unknown. To evaluate whether mobility-related fatigue is a stronger risk factor for mobility limitations in certain socioeconomic groups, the aim of this study was to examine the combined effect of mobility-related fatigue and...

Those who already faced the Trend following concept know that effective strategies of following the trend suggest dynamic stop loss level movement without profit limitation. The position is kept until the trend is changed and the order is done. With a proper choice of the market entry point the trader switches a position into the breakeven mode and thus relieves the psychological pressure. With...

Abstract: The Islamic capital markets in Indonesia have been developing over the last two decades, characterized by an increase products and issuance of regulations related to markets, general public investors are beginning understand list securities. Next, there is one controversial criteria for Sharia Securities List. That is, total yield less than 10%. It understandable whether financial ins...

1. This document aims at carrying out a comparison between two distinct approaches which may be used for the calculation of income on securities: (i) Security-by-security approach. This approach entails combining resident investors’ holdings of foreign securities and non-resident holdings of domestic securities (by individual securities) with the information available (e.g. in a master file dat...

In this paper, the Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm is proposed to solve the Profit Based Unit Commitment problem under deregulated environment with emission limitation. The bi-objective function optimization problem is formulated as a maximization of the Generation Companies profit and a minimization of the emission output of the thermal units, while all of the constrains should be satisfied. T...