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Development of Asset Information Requirements to support Asset Management
The management of physical assets (asset management) is becoming increasingly important, supported by a shift in mindsets that are seeing maintenance moving from a "necessary evil" to a value-adding exercise. This is enforced by the need to achieve greater asset performance within increasing …
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Asset trajectories and child outcomes: Implications for asset-based policies
… number of countries have proposed or implemented asset-building policies targeting children. Much of the research on assets, however, has focused on the predictors of asset holding, and little is known about asset accumulation trajectories. This is especially so for families with young children. …
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Reporting Asset Transactions
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T22:10:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0009123.pdf: 7682773 bytes, checksum: c96872ff616b41ea7a852c89da2bed40 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1954
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Mean reversion in asset prices and asset allocation in investment management
This thesis examines the predictability of asset prices for an Australian investor. Evidence supporting the mean reversion alternative to the random walk hypothesis is presented, with a discussion of potential models, both linear and nonlinear. The normality and homoscedasticity assumptions are …
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Examining Immigrant Experiences in Asset Building: Implications for Asset-Based Policies
… with late but now growing attention on their asset- and wealth-building. Current research on immigrants’ asset building has largely focused on their individual-level characteristics, and not much on opportunities and constraints related to policy arrangements. This dissertation addresses the …
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A Decison Support System for Multi-Objective Multi-Asset Roadway Asset Management
… objective is to maintain the infrastructure asset systems in a state of good repair and to improve the efficiency and performance of the infrastructure systems while protecting and enhancing the natural environment. Decision makers are in need of a decision support system to consider these …
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Machine Learning Asset Allocation
La optimización de portafolios de instrumentos financieros es una actividad que ocurre de manera diaria en el mundo financiero. En la mayoría de los casos se utiliza una metodología de optimización cuadrática que está diseñada para solucionar problemas de optimización de cartera con restricciones …
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Essays in Asset Pricing
This dissertation includes three essays in asset pricing. The first two essays explain the role of investor trust on mutual fund investor behavior and private fund capital raising, respectively. The third essay proposes a valuation model for bitcoin options. In the first essay, I investigate the …
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Essays on Asset Pricing
… relations between macroeconomic quantities and asset prices. The first chapter takes a production-based approach and investigates how different types of business investment are linked to stock returns. The second chapter takes a consumption-based approach and investigates how the interaction …
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Essays on Asset Pricing
This dissertation studies asset pricing from three perspectives. The first chapter takes the view of a long-run buy-and-hold investor, and offers an an explanation to prominent cross-sectional return anomalies. A commonality shared by these anomalies is that their returns are negatively correlated …
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Essays in Asset Pricing
<p>This dissertation consists of three essays in asset pricing with the common theme of return predictability.</p> <p><strong>Chapter 1:</strong> This chapter introduces the motivation, results, and structure of the dissertation.</p> <p><strong>Chapter 2:</strong> I examine the relation between the …
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Asset pricing in UK
… while testing both Unconditional and Conditional asset pricing inferences. Fourth it contributes to the body of literature by extending our knowledge on Unconditional and Conditional beta models and their comparative performance. Fifth the thesis adds to the existing literature by estimating the …
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Essays in asset securitisation
… banks raise external finance by securitising assets and what are the consequences for shareholder wealth? The role of securitisation in a bank's optimal capital structure is explored. Fourth, the thesis looks at whether there are differences in the pricing behaviour of financial firms which …
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Essays in Asset Allocation
This dissertation consists of two essays in asset allocation. In the first essay, I measure the value of active money management. I explore this issue by comprehensively examining the parametric rule proposed by Brandt, Santa-Clara and Valkanov (2009) (the BSV rule) out-of-sample for portfolio …
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Essays in Asset Pricing
… devoted to better understand market dynamics and asset pricing anomalies. In Chapter 1, which is co-authored with Andrea Hamaui, we study the effect of investors’ market expectations on asset pricing. Given traditional stock returns factor modelling and the prominence of the market factor, beliefs …
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Communication, confidence and asset pricing.
… to analyze the impact of social communication on asset pricing, agents' trading behavior and welfare, and (2) to examine how traders' changing confidences resulted from communication affect asset pricing and trading behavior. Chapter 2 develops an asset pricing model in which agents communicate …
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Risk-based bridge asset management
Bridges, critical components of a nation’s infrastructure network, are vulnerable to deterioration from aging, fatigue, and external events like earthquakes or impacts. These challenges, coupled with limited maintenance resources, create the need for efficient and expeditious predictive maintenance …
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