The goal of this study was to develop an instrument to operationalize the impact of technology use on romantic relationship intimacy. The sample consisted of 241 undergraduate and graduate students who identified as being in a committed, monogamous intimate relationship. An exploratory factor analysis was conducted on an initial set of test items to reduce the number of items to those that expl...

The purpose of this study is to review emerging capital market institutions that are considered as ‘collective investment undertakings’ under Turkish Capital Market Law: Mutual funds, pension real estate funds and venture funds. In paper, data retrieved from official website Board. With ‘VAR’ ‘Johansen Co-Integration analysis’ with ‘Vector-Error-Correction Model’, the impact FX rates on net ass...

The present review was undertaken to examine the literature regarding the role of the marital relationship in treatment of agoraphobia from a behavioral couples therapy (BCT) perspective. Both qualitative and quantitative analyses were conducted to evaluate (a) whether marital quality predicts treatment responsiveness and (b) how best to include the spouse in treatment of agoraphobia. Regarding...

empowering rural women is one of the third millennium goals. to this end it was proposed to allot micro credits to rural women in order to provide the required capital to launch productive careers. now after a decade from the establishment of micro credit funds in iran, only few researches have been done to give a rank to them. the present research is conducted through survey method to rank mic...

This study contributes to the academic literature on faith-based mutual funds, by offering a comparative investigation of Islamic vs. conventional funds’ performance sensitivity changes in list seventeen relevant attributes, all context Saudi market. The measures investigated are excess return, selectivity and timing. took place from 2011 2015, with sample 200 Active 137 63 conventional. Findin...

the purpose of this study is to assess the transaction cost of borrowing from non-governmental investment development funds which are established in less than a decade. transaction costs are considered as significant and limiting factors for micro-borrowers in using formal loans. the required data are provided by the investment developing support’s parent company using the stratified random sam...

issuance value, redemption value and net value of issuance and redemption of investment units is called cash flow to mutual funds. this cash flow to mutual funds is used as an investor sentiment index, when there is significant relationship between cash flow to mutual funds and market return. in this paper, relationship between these two items is to be evaluated. monthly and weekly cash flow to...

 Vikas Agarwal is from Georgia State University, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, 35 Broad Street, Suite 1221, Atlanta GA 30303, USA. Email: [email protected]: +1-404-413-7326. Fax: +1-404-4137312. Vikas Agarwal is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Financial Research (CFR), University of Cologne. ^ Yan Lu is from University of Florida, Warrington College of Business, Box 117168,...

We examine whether funds of hedge funds (FoFs) engage in costly fire sales of their hedge fund investments during the 2004–2011 period. We find that FoFs experiencing large outflows tend to liquidate holdings in funds with relatively few redemption restrictions (“liquid funds”), even when these funds perform well. A tracking portfolio that buys liquid funds involved in fire sales over the prior...