VOLUME 6(2) • 2011
SOCIAL NETWORKS AND INNOVATION (HANDICRAFT INDUSTRY IN BANTUL, YOGYAKARTA)
ABSTRACT. This research found most of the handicraft producers have implemented various innovations during last five years. The newest innovations are managerial innovation, marketing innovation and product innovation. Meanwhile, product innovation and managerial innovation are the most important in..
CALENDAR ANOMALIES: EVIDENCE FROM THE COLOMBO STOCK EXCHANGE
ABSTRACT. This paper investigates the existence of Calendar Anomalies in the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) over a period from 1985 to 2005. The regression results suggest that stock returns in the CSE to a certain extent are not in consistent with the random walk hypothesis during the period 1995–200..
RESPONSE TO HARTMANN ON POLITICAL ECONOMY
ABSTRACT. In the view of Hartmann (2004) government is in effect best which governs most. Not for this author an appreciation of Adam Smith’s self regulatory characteristics of the free market place. In Hartmann’s view, there is not, and cannot be, any such thing as free enterprise. The present arti..
TREND FOLLOWING AND EXPECTED RETURN
ABSTRACT. Trend following strategies have the reputation of being the holy grail of investment. This paper investigates the trend following strategy both from a theoretical and empirical perspective. This article also discusses conditional expected return and the drawdown with Value at Risk (VaR). V..
GREENING THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY: ECOSOPHY, ECOLOGY AND ECONOMY
ABSTRACT. This paper argues that the most sustainable and ‘productive’ interface in advanced postindustrial societies in the twenty-first will be that between the knowledge and the ‘green economy.’ It charts three forms of the knowledge economy – the ‘creative’, ‘learning’ ‘open science’ economy – e..