FINANCIAL INDICATORS AFFECTING STOCK PERFORMANCE THE CASE OF CAPITAL PRODUCT PARTNERS

Antonis PANTAZIS

M.Sc. University of Piraeus

Padazis_adonis@hotmail.com

Theodoros PELAGIDIS

Professor, University of Piraeus & NR Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, US. 21, Lambraki Ave., GR-18533

pelagidi@unipi.gr.

Abstract

We analyze the importance of certain financial indicators that provide important information for both potential investors and the management of a company. We reach to a conclusion regarding the effect, negative or positive, of selected financial indices particularly on a public listed shipping company’s stock return. We consider these indices critical for a shipping company in its efforts both to achieve high stock returns and become “attractive” for future investors.

Keywords: Economics, General Financial Markets, Financial Securities

JEL classification: R4, R42, G1
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DO PEOPLE WITH A DIFFERENT EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND AGE DIFFERENTLY? EUROPEAN EVIDENCE FROM THE SHARE SURVEY

Antigone LYBERAKI

Professor of economics, Department of Economics and Regional Development, Panteion University

alymber@panteion.gr

Platon TINIOS

Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus

ptinios@unipi.gr

George PAPADOUDIS

Researcher, Department of Economics and Regional Development, Panteion University

gpapadoudis@netpads.eu

Thomas GEORGIADIS

Researcher, Department of Economics and Regional Development, Panteion University

th.georgiadis@gmail.com

Abstract

The landscape in the second half of the twentieth century was characterized in Europe by two divides. One was that between insiders and outsiders in the labor market, often associated with membership of the public sector, which enjoyed, in most places a privileged status relative to the rest of the labor market. The other divide was built around gender – the male breadwinner model. The pension system, however, is supposed to operate in an equalizing direction, ironing out employment-based inequities. This paper tests whether and to what extent inequalities persist in retirement. It does so by direct comparisons of privileged groups relative to less privileged groups of a large international sample survey of individuals aged 50+, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), using the fifth wave conducted in 2013. The comparison proceeds by means of odds ratios applied to dimensions of outcomes related to well-being: life satisfaction; better health; chances of a better financial status. This is done for cases of pensioners where the key distinguishing feature is simple presence of someone who used to be employed worked in the public sector. This comparison is also applied at a household level, where in addition to the public-sector effect, hypotheses related to the male breadwinner model can also be approached. The results in general confirm that public sector retirees tend to fare better than their coevals, even with the relatively blunt statistical instrument checking for overall outcomes.

Keywords: Employment history, Pensioners, Well-being, Elderly, Inequalities.

JEL classification: J78, J45, J14

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STUDENS’ ECLOGICAL AWARENESS DEVELOPMENT ON GEOGRAPHY LESSONS IN THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

Vyacheslav Alexeevich SITAROV

Ph.D., Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Head of Department of Pedagogy and psychology of higher education, Moscow University for the Humanities 5 Yunosti street, Moscow, Russia 111395

editor3@academicpapers.org

Larissa  UREKESHOVA

Ph.D., the highest category teacher of geography, High school number 38, Aktobe, Kazakhstan

editor2@academicpapers.org

Abstract

Relevance of the research: The research is relevant due to the total aloofness of the global environmental policy and the efforts of some states to resolve environmental problems from individuals. This actualizes the task of ecological consciousness and self-awareness development as the foundation of environmental activity of students. Objective: The aim of the study is to theoretically justify and carry out the pilot and field testing of pedagogical conditions for early teenagers’ ecological awareness development on geography lessons in secondary schools in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Methods: The main methods of the investigation were complex theoretical analysis, categorical synthesis and simulation, allowing to consider the problem of students’ ecological consciousness development during special courses. Results: The article presents the pedagogical conditions of early teenagers’ ecological awareness development at geography lessons in secondary schools in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and also discloses a pedagogical potential of ecologization of the school course “Geography” content and educational activities carried out in its framework. Practical implications: The article reflects experience of practical solutions to the problem of early teenagers’ ecological awareness development at Geography lessons in the 6th grade of the secondary school in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Keywords: environmental awareness, early teenagers’ awareness, Science teaching

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