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I. Financial Markets / Banking & Financial Services / Investments / International Finance

 

Isimbabi, Michael J. "Internet Stocks: Value-Drivers, Market Irrationality, and Mispricing: An Overview of the Emerging Empirical Research Evidence." Monograph, 2003. Capital Researchers LLC. Earlier (Jan. 2002) version published on the Financial Economics Network (FEN)/Social Science Research Network (SSRN) web site: http://ssrn.com/abstract=362501

 

Tucker, Alan L., Kent G. Becker, Michael J. Isimbabi, and Joseph P. Ogden. Contemporary Portfolio Theory and Risk Management. International Thomson Publishing/West, 1994. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0314028226/qid=1083271062/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-1741230-7619849?v=glance&s=books

 

Isimbabi, Michael J. "The Stock Market Perception of Industry Risk and the Separation of Banking and Commerce." Journal of Banking and Finance, March 1994. http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econworld/econbase/jbf/frame.htm

 

Isimbabi, Michael J. and Alan L. Tucker. "The Market Perception of Banking Industry Risk: A Multifactor Analysis." The Atlantic Economic Journal, March 1997. www.iaes.org/publications/aej/199703/isimbabi.htm

 

Isimbabi, Michael J. "Comovements of World Securities Markets, International Portfolio Diversification, and Asset Returns: A Survey of Empirical Evidence." In: Recent Developments in International Banking and Finance, Volume VI. Edited by S. J. Khoury. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1992. [This article was extolled as "a first-class summary reading for the portfolio manager" in a Journal of Banking and Finance review.]

 

Isimbabi, Michael J. Website Traffic ("Eyeballs"), Financial Performance, and Internet Stock Prices: A Synthesis of the Emerging Empirical Evidence. Working Paper, Capital Researchers, 2000.

 

Internet Stocks: Abstracts of Empirical Research Papers. Capital Researchers, 2000.

 

"‘Financial Empowerment’, Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Black Progress: An Overview of Recent Trends." Research Report, Capital Researchers LLC, 2004.

 

Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Black Progress: Harnessing Black Financial Power Through a National Venture Capital Fund. Discussion Paper, Capital Researchers, 1999. [Earlier version published in The Black World Today (www.tbwt.com), December 1997.]

 

"On the Feasibility of Inner-City Investment Funds". Capital Researchers Brief, 1997.

 

 

II. International Development Finance / Emerging Markets / Developing Countries / Africa

Isimbabi, Michael J. "Making Leaders". The Economist', 24 July 2003. Letter in response to The Economist's cover story, "Now for Africa" (03 July 2003). www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1940144

Isimbabi, Michael J. "Fostering African Progress: The Millennium Challenge Account and the Leadership Imperative." Capital Researchers Working Paper, 2004.

Isimbabi, Michael J. "Globalization and the WTO Financial Services Agreement in African Countries." African Economic Policy Discussion Paper No. 51. December 2000. U.S. Agency for International Development, Equity and Growth through Economic Research (EAGER) Project. http://www.eagerproject.com/discussion51.pdf; www.usaid.gov/regions/afr/pubs/docs/2001pubslist.pdf.

 

Isimbabi, Michael J. "Stock Markets, Foreign Investment, and Economic Growth in Africa." SAIS Review: A Journal of International Affairs (School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University), Summer 1997. [www.press.jhu.edu/journals/sais_review/toc/sais17.2.html].

Reprinted in: African Emerging Markets: Contemporary Issues, Vol. 1, published by the African Capital Markets Forum (www.african-cap.org/publications_AfricanEmergingMarkets.htm)

 

Isimbabi, Michael J. "The WTO Agreement and Financial Services in African Countries: A Policy and Research Review" [http://www.eagerproject.com/5e5.html]. Article based on: "The WTO Agreement and Financial Services in African Countries: A Review of Policy and Research Issues." Desk Study Report, November 1997. [U.S. Agency for International Development, Equity and Growth through Economic Research (EAGER) Project]

 

Isimbabi, Michael J. "Global Financial Trends, the WTO, Foreign Investment, and Financial Services in Emerging Economies: An Overview" (1999). [Adapted from a paper prepared for the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Equity and Growth through Economic Research (EAGER) project.] www.capitalresearchers.com/global.html

 

Isimbabi, Michael J. "Private Foreign Investment and African Development: Illusions and Realities." 21st Century Policy Review, Winter-Spring 1997. Paper presented at a conference on "Sustainable Development in Africa: Prospects for the 21st Century", at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1996.

 

Isimbabi, Michael J. and B. E. Osaze. The Nigerian Stock Exchange and Investment Analysis. Monograph, 1983. Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Nigeria.

 

Osaze, B. E. and Michael J. Isimbabi. "A Nigerian Stock Market Index Is Long Overdue." The Nigerian Accountant, July 1985.

 


 

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