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Showing 1 to 20 of 559 for “"BID"”.
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Factors affecting the bid/ no bid decision making process of small to medium size contractors in Auckland
… must have the capability to deal with various bidding situations successfully in today‟s highly competitive construction market. The first step that the companies need to consider is whether to bid or not to bid when they received a tender invitation. The contractors‟ decision is affected by …
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A bid-rent analysis of housing market discrimination.
Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 1974
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A bid-rent model of urban residential location.
Thesis. 1975. B.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Adversarial risk analysis for first-price sealed-bid auctions
First-price sealed-bid (FPSB) auctions have mostly been modelled in auction theory using the decision-theoretic and Bayesian game-theoretic approaches. From a practical point of view, each approach has its limitations. To overcome those limitations, Rios Insua et al. (2009) introduced an approach, …
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"To make a poet black then bid him sing"
… title of this thesis, “To make a poet Black then bid him sing,” comes from the Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen’s, “Yet do I Marvel,” a poem that questions God’s intentions in placing a curse on a man, then requiring him to sing. This to me was a dichotomy that seemed to underpin my own work …
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Bid-Ask Spread Modelling in the South African Bond Market
Pitsillis and Taylor (2014) calculate bid-ask spread estimates of South African government bonds over a single year, using the models of De Jong and Rindi (2009) and Huang and Stoll (1997). This dissertation tests the effectiveness of both models by comparing the modelled equity spread estimates …
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Rescinding a Bid: Stockholm's uncertain relationship with the Olympic Games
… process of considering whether to launch a bid for the 2026 Winter Olympic Games. That Stockholm has contemplated launching a bid is not surprising from a regional perspective—the Olympic Games have not been held in a Scandinavian country since Lillehammer, Norway played host in 1994 and …
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The Bicultural Identity Development (BID) Art Therapy Intervention with Hispanic Adults
<p>Adolescence is a challenging phase of human development with many external and internal pressures. The difficulty of adolescence is compounded when a family immigrates to another country, thus introducing a host of new stressors. Hispanic immigrants represent a growing sector of the US …
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Three essays on the cost components of the bid-ask spread
… on the adverse selection component of the bid-ask spread. A regime switching model applied to the trading process leads to a parsimonious model of the time-series evolution of the bid-ask spread in which market participants use trade data to answer the following question: Is there currently …
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Pre-bid network analysis for transportation procurement auction under stochastic demand
… real-life industrial problem of creating package bids for a company's transportation procurement auction. The purpose of offering package bids is to increase the carriers' capacity and to improve the reliability of services. In this thesis, we investigate the possibility of forming packages using …
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Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy of Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer: Preliminary Results of BID Fractionation
… of preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) using BID fractionation in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Between January 2001 and November 2007, 35 patients were treated with preoperative CRT, and then received operation due to locally advanced rectal cancer. Three …
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Delay-caused claims in infrastructure projects under design-bid-build delivery systems
… study was limited to projects where the design-bid-build (DBB) delivery system was used. The study investigated the driving factors that give rise to claims, such as the extent to which delays affect them; how other parameters affect them; how the methods to estimate and analyze cost and delay …
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The Effects of Multiple Listing on Bid-Ask Spreads for Equity Options
… of equity options leads to lower bid-ask spreads because of increased competition. This competition can come in two forms, actual or potential, both of which are theorized to have the same effect on spreads. A model of the determinants of the bid-ask spread was formulated. Separate …
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The components of the bid-ask spread: evidence from the corn futures market
The student, Quanbiao Shang, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-26 at 12:56.
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Unearthing Greenland’s Resource Frontier: Mineral Resource Extraction and Naalakkersuisut’s Bid for Greenlandic Independence
This dissertation analyses the role that mineral resources have played in visions of Greenlandic Independence over the last decade of Self Rule. As climate change and melting ice make Greenland greener, the trope of a “New North’ increasingly open to exploitation is reinforced. However this …
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Law of the landless : the Dalit bid for land redistribution in Gujarat, India
This study examines how government's implementation of land reforms in Gujarat, India informs Dalit (i.e., 'Outcaste') activism for land redistribution. It takes as a case study the Navsarjan Trust (or simply Navsarjan), a non-profit group that advocates for Dalit land rights in Surendranagar …
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The role of a board of directors in responding to an unsolicited takeover bid
… in the use of the "unsolicited takeover bid" as a means of acquiring corporate control has had profound implications, especially on large publicly traded companies. Although much has been written about the efficacy of takeover bids advancing shareholders' interests and economic prosperity …
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Nudging contracting firms rivals within municipal road projects in Saudi Arabia to bid competitively
… preventive measures have been proposed to tackle bid-rigging practices in public procurement, which are based on reducing opportunities for such illicit arrangements. Maximising the number of market players is one of the most prevalent measures suggested in previous studies. However, there has …
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