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Showing 1 to 20 of 500 for “"Economics, Finance."”.
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Three Essays Applying Dynamic Models in Economics, Finance, and Machine Learning
… methods and their application in the fields of Economics, Finance, and Machine Learning. It pulls liberally from all three. In particular, this dissertation makes repeated use of multi-state modeling frameworks popular in Economics to bring a faceted view to the underlying data and detect its …
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Currency and international equity trading strategies and the behavior of exchange rates
… D.)--Michigan State University. Department of Economics Finance, 2010
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Differential and numerical models of hysteretic systems with stochastic and deterministic inputs
… hysteresis have been developed in the areas of economics, finance, terrestrial hydrology and biology. These models lack any stochastic element which can often have a strong effect in these areas. In this work stochastically driven closed loop systems with hysteresis type memory are studied. This …
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Maslaha: a New Approach for Islamic Bonds
Islamic finance is inextricably linked to Islamic law, or sharia, which is richly detailed and difficult to distil into simple rules. In particular, it invokes the concept of maslaha to prohibit or permit actions and choices on the basis of whether or not it serves the best interest of the …
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La partecipazione femminile al giornalismo politico-letterario. Italia e Francia tra Otto e Novecento.
… to the journals’ overall structure – such as economics, finance and matters to do with the army and the colonies, women contributors covedered nearly all the range of subjects contained in this periodicals: not only fiction, but also literary criticism, travelogues, politics and others. …
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Understanding resilience in large networks
… Many real life systems in transportation, economics, finance and social sciences can be represented as networks. The individual constituents, or nodes, of the network may represent vehicles in the case of vehicular platoons, production sectors in the case of economic networks, banks in the …
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Deterministic and Stochastic Bellman's Optimality Principles on Isolated Time Domains and Their Applications in Finance
… which was used in various fields; such as, economics, finance, bioinformatics, aerospace, information theory, etc. Since Richard Bellman's invention of dynamic programming, economists and mathematicians have formulated and solved a huge variety of sequential decision making problems both in …
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Essays on statistical economics with applications to financial market instability, limit distribution of loss aversion, and harmonic probability weighting functions
… in the presence of risk with applications to economics and finance. The methodology draws upon economics, finance, psychology, mathematics and statistics. Each essay contributes to the literature by either introducing new theories and empirical predictions or extending old ones with novel …
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A Descriptive Study of Belizean High School Students' Postsecondary Plans
… related to business, such as accounting, economics, finance, and banking, and they want to pursue careers in business and tourism. Students reporting an intention to attend a university chose the University of Belize 66% of the time. The findings of this study have important implications …
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Ensemble filtering for state space models
… has been widely used in various fields including economics, finance, bioinformatics, oceanography, and tomography. The goal of the filtering problem is to find the posterior distribution of the hidden state given the current and past observations. The first part of my thesis focuses on designing …
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The impact of strategic investment on success of capital-intensive ventures
… been a subject of study by researchers across Economics, Finance, Strategy, and Innovation fields. First, this thesis examines entrepreneurs' rationale for raising capital from corporate investors. Through the analysis of an online survey conducted with startups based in the US and founded …
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Equity market-neutral strategies: Efficient frontier and style analyses.
Equity market-neutral strategies: Efficient frontier and style analyses.
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Essays on Hedge Fund Activism and Family Firm
This dissertation has two essays covering hedge fund activism and family firm. In the first essay of my dissertation, I investigate how hedge fund activism reengineer corporate culture of targeted firms. By using culture measures based on the Q&A section of earnings conference calls, I find that …
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The Effects of Multifactor Term Structure Models on the Valuation of Insurance
This research investigates the importance of the underlying assumption of interest rate movements when valuing insurance. Movements in interest rates affect the present value of both property-liability and life insurance obligations. One approach to understanding the amount of interest rate risk …
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Two Essays in Corporate Finance and Investment
"The second essay, ""Dual-class Stocks: Motivation and Effects on Firm Valuation, Corporate Governance, Capital Structure, and Payout Policy"", addresses several issues in dual-class stocks: why and when firms create dual-class stocks, and how the creation of dual-class stocks affects shareholders' …
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Three Essays in Finance
Dynamic factor models for forecasting stock return covariance matrix. Factor models are quite popular for forecasting covariances as they reduce the impact of the idiosyncratic return component on forecasts based on the full sample covariance matrix. I examine empirically whether introducing factor …
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Empirical Essays on Auctions of Brazilian Treasury Securities
Chapter 3 is motivated by the unusual institutional feature that in Brazil auctions of government securities are carried out by two different entities, the Central Bank (CB) and the National Treasury Secretariat (NTS). This chapter examines demand and profitability in the two sets of auctions and …
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Essays in Real Estate Pricing
"Second, real estate investment trusts are used to pursue two related research questions: (a) Can a firm's characteristics be used to determine its pricing (as measured by the firm's dividend yield)? (b) After adjusting for these characteristics, do ""value"" firms outperform ""growth"" firms? The …
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Essays in Banking and International Corporate Governance
In the third essay, we find that cash ratios for chaebol (business group) firms are lower than for non-chaebol firms for the 1991--2000 period. We do however find that there is a shift in the degree of bank power over the last decade. After the financial crisis in 1997, the interest differential …
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Essays on Dynamics Models in Finance
The third chapter is on a damped diffusion framework in financial modelling. With the popular CEV process for the underlying stock or stochastic volatility, the martingale option pricing approach can fail. I propose a flexible damped diffusion framework to overcome these drawbacks. This framework …
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