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  Risk Attribution – a Model for Establishing the Impact of Global Risk Factors

  The global recession that started in the twenty-first century forced investors to invent or re-discover a paradigm for risk treatment. The solution lies in the risk attribution of historical stock return of listed companies in relation to global macroeconomic factors, its decomposition and research in terms of risk exposure and risk premia. The ... The global recession that started in the twenty-first century forced investors to invent or re-discover a paradigm for risk treatment. The solution lies in the risk attribution of historical stock return of listed companies in relation to global macroeconomic factors, its decomposition and research in terms of risk exposure and risk premia. The consistency of this approach enables investors to act as risk managers and macro analysts of equity markets and to predict potential sources of risk for companies, the stock exchange, the economy, and the globalizing world.

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  An Integrated Approach in the Study of the Evolution of the Stabilisation Policy of the European Union

  Studying the evolution of European Union's stabilisation policy is a difficult task that requires certain focusing. In a broad sense, stabilisation policy can be defined as a set of measures taken by the government and implemented by certain bodies and mechanisms to overcome problems of the economy or to restore its equilibrium. Of course, ... Studying the evolution of European Union's stabilisation policy is a difficult task that requires certain focusing. In a broad sense, stabilisation policy can be defined as a set of measures taken by the government and implemented by certain bodies and mechanisms to overcome problems of the economy or to restore its equilibrium. Of course, processes ongoing at global, regional, and national levels in the economic system should also be taken into account in determining the instruments of the stabilisation policy. For the European Union in particular, the stabilisation instruments in its development are expressed in changes both in the strategic and in the structural and the institutional aspects and the evolution of the stabilisation policy can be characterized as distinct periods of development.

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  Testing the Damodaran Approach to Estimate the Cost of Equity in Emerging Markets

  The cost of equity is one of the key financial and economic indicators in corporate finance. The purpose of this paper is to test the well-known approach of Damodaran in global emerging markets. The main result of the study is that the Damodaran approach needs to be improved as it maintains constant deviation from the observed ex-post cost of ... The cost of equity is one of the key financial and economic indicators in corporate finance. The purpose of this paper is to test the well-known approach of Damodaran in global emerging markets. The main result of the study is that the Damodaran approach needs to be improved as it maintains constant deviation from the observed ex-post cost of equity.