Thesis (doctoral)--Universitat, Erlangen-Nurnberg. / Title from e-book title screen (viewed January 2, 2008). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1982. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 233-237).

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: Stephen E. Celec, Florida State University, College of Business, Dept. of Finance. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 19, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 117 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisor: Lisa Koonce. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Individual investors and professional fund managers who deploy capital into equity markets are looking to achieve investment returns that outperform the general market. In order to achieve this, the ability to identify and implement strategies and trading rules that are consistently able to outperform the market is critical. It is against this backdrop that this study will attempt to determine whether a trading strategy based on dividend yield can be used to outperform the general market in South Africa. Specifically, this study proposes to test a dividend yield strategy to create portfolios based on historical data on the JSE, and test whether these portfolios have outperformed the JSE Top 40 Index over the period of the study between 2004 and 2012, after adjusting for risk and taxes. This study will also further test whether high yield portfolios outperform low yield portfolios over the same period on the JSE. These trading strategies have proven to be successful in other markets by Dimson et al. (2011) and Visscher and Filbeck, (2003), and this study aims to investigate whether the same holds in South Africa. / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / pagibs2014 / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / MBA / Unrestricted

This research report investigated directors' dealings on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in order to determine if an investor should use director dealings as an investment indicator. Share data, directors’ dealings, market capitalisation data and beta values for JSE listed shares over the six years from 1 April 2002 until 31 March 2008 was obtained from McGregor BFA (Pty) Ltd. Only the first transaction of the week was analysed, and event day was categorised as day0. Abnormal Returns (AR), Average Abnormal Returns (AAR) and Cumulative Average Abnormal Returns (CAAR) were then calculated for day 1 through to day 252. The CAAR was then tested for statistical significance at a 5% confidence level. The overall CAAR for the 252 holding period was found to be a statistically significant positive 0.31%, with the CAAR for buy transactions being a statistically significant positive 0.33% and the CAAR for sale transactions being a statistically significant positive 0.29% at the 252 holding period. The individual CAARs for the sale and buy transactions fluctuated over the period with the sale transactions consistently outperforming the buy transactions. / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / unrestricted

The thesis considers the effects of public policy with respect to disclosure on rivalrous competition in duopolies. Principal contributions to the stochastic oligopoly theories of information sharing include imbedding an investment stage in the standard noncooperative two-stage information sharing/output (pricing) games under a wide range of assumptions about effects of investment or distributions of returns, and investigating the extent to which altering the usual preference assumption to allow risk aversion may affect information choice. At an information sharing level, it is established that, besides being sensitive to the type of competition and the nature of information asymmetries, as previously reported in the literature, private incentives to disclose also depend importantly on both the impact of investment and risk preferences. In this regard, equilibrium levels of investment are shown to be affected nontrivially by variance effects from investment, risk attitude of decision makers, as well as the type of industry rivalry. Also characterized are the welfare orderings obtained as a consequence of these varying disclosure effects on the decisions and hence profits of competing firms. If alternative accounting practices are distinguishable along the informativeness dimension, then, at an abstract level, the analysis can be seen as approaching the study of many accounting issues from a distinctly different perspective than the familiar tax or wealth transfer viewpoints. The principal contributions to the accounting literature include identifying the impact of disclosure rules or rule changes on industry, consumers, and society as a whole, and offering insights to the accounting policy makers concerning the results of disclosure regulation. / Business, Sauder School of / Graduate

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