Browsing Dissertations for Finance by Issue Date
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A study on assessing and critiquing ways of selecting equity fund managers
(The British university in Dubai (BUiD), 2012-04)The research could be premature to some of the financial industries such as the UAE, as mutual fund management as a brand and business is still in the pioneer level of the industry cycle. The research might be more applicable ... -
A Critical Analysis of the Role of Dubai International Financial Centre in Making Dubai a Regional Financial Centre
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2012-04)Financial systems play an important role in the economic development of nations. The performance and long-term economic growth and welfare of a country are related to its degree of financial development. The topic of this ... -
Investor psychology: a study of investors’ overconfidence in Dubai financial market, UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2012-05)"The economist may attempt to ignore psychology, but it is sheer impossibility for him to ignore human nature. If the economist borrows his conception of man from psychologist, his constructive work may have some chance ... -
Corporate Governance and the Board efficiency in U.A.E Banks
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2012-05)This study titled CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND THE BOARD EFFICIENCY IN UAE BANKS, and reached many of the results, where it became clear that the governance of banks is the process of organizing and arranging the relationship ... -
Profitability of Momentum and Overreaction Trading Strategies in Switzerland Stock Market
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2012-06)Following available literatures on overreaction hypothesis and momentum effect, this research examines the profitability of contrarian and momentum strategies within large cap/blue-chip stocks of Switzerland financial ... -
A comparison of Market Risk Management Practices of selected Islamic banks in the UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2012-11)Purpose – The paper aims to estimate the Value-at-Risk of stock returns for three major Islamic Banks in UAE and compare VaR results among each banks' stock returns. Design/methodology/approach – The paper calculates VaR ... -
Credit Default Swap Spread (CDs) to Predict a Default
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2012-12)This paper investigates the ability of the Credit Default Swap Spread (CDSs) to predict a default. As a result, I started to build a regression and correlation model to examine and check if there is a relation between two ... -
Do Japanese Candlestick Patterns Help Identify Profitable Trading Opportunities? An Analysis on Selected Forex Markets
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-01)Japanese candlestick charts were first introduced to the Western world in 1989 by Steve Nison. No one in the West got to know about the Japanese technical analysis before the first edition of his textbook, and no charting ... -
A Study on a Currency peg in the GCC Region with a Special Focus on UAE and its Impact on Economic Development
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-02)When there is trading operations which involves exports and imports for a country then currency is required for the purpose of exchange of goods and services. The currency in which two countries exchange goods and services ... -
An Empirical Analysis of the Turn-of-the-month and January Anomalies in Five Emerging Stock Markets
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-02)The Efficient Market Hypothesis has been tested using various statistical models and approaches. The findings in the existing literature provide mixed strong evidence that financial markets are efficient and inefficient. ... -
A Study on Liquidity Risk Management in UAE Banks
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-04)Following the global economic meltdown in late 2007, when many banks failed to meet their payments obligations and funds were drained out from depositors, many regulators started implementing liquidity risk management ... -
Global Financial Crisis: A survey on the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) In the United Arab Emirates
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-04)International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) is the most accepted and widely followed accounting standards all over the world. Since it play a vital role in raising the accounting quality because of its tight requirement ... -
A Comparative study of Technical Efficiency in GCC Islamic Financial Institutions during the Global financial Crisis using Malmquist-Type Data Envelopment analysis
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-04)Islamic banking is gaining more importance, especially after the latest global banking crisis. This importance is because Islamic financial Institutions (IFIs) are believed to have not been affected by the year 2007-2008 ... -
An event study on the importance of foreign portfolio investment, institutional investment and its impact on Dubai financial market
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-04)The purpose of this study is to measure the effect of foreign and institutional investments on Dubai Financial Market. 519 trading sessions between June 2010 and June 2012 have been analysed using three measurement ... -
Analysis of Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) in different economies
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-04)The current dissertation is undertaken to analyze technical analysis, its indicators and their profitability and feasibility. This dissertation gives the basics idea of technical analysis and how it works and helps the ... -
Enterprise Risk Management implementation study in the Small-Medium manufacturing companies in the United Arab Emirates
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-05)The purpose of this dissertation research is to examine the risk management status of Small-Medium enterprises in the manufacturing field in the United Arab Emirates in order to ease the implementation process of Enterprise ... -
Liquidity Risk Management: A Comparative Study between Islamic and Conventional banks of United Kingdom
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-05)According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Islamic banking is one of the fastest growing segments in the financial industry tracking a 10-15% growth over the past decade. One of the most important countries to ... -
The role of SMEs in a global economy: A comparative analysis with large corporates
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-06)This paper reveals the importance of the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in their economies worldwide. It will illustrate the influences caused by some SMEs operating in four major economies including USA, Germany, ... -
A data envelopment analysis of banks in the UAE A Study of the Relative Operational and Intermediary Efficiency of National Banks of the United Arab Emirates
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-06)Similar to all countries that are in the mid development or developing stage, commercial banks play a key role in the economy. Proper analysis of the performance and that the efficiency of these banks is important to all ... -
An Analysis of Islamic Finance Framework, Authority in Islam and a Need for Paradigm Shift in Islamic Finance
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2014-03)Islamic Finance has always been condemned by some of the influential advocates of interest based economies as a backward looking, less considerate and Shariah driven financial system still characterizing the principles ...