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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Economics and finance"”.
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Essays in economics and finance
Chapter 1: A large body of the corporate finance literature is devoted to capital structure. This literature examines whether firms have a target capital structure, and whether they actively rebalance their capital structure towards a target. Conversion of a convertible bond causes a drop in …
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Three essays in economics and finance
… auction, where participation is costly, and bidders must decide given their private valuations whether to participate. We first suppose that the minimum reserve security-bid yields the seller an expected revenue equal to the asset's stand-alone value to the seller. Demarzo et al. (2005) …
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Essays in development economics and finance
… is a collection of three essays on development economics and finance. The first chapter studies the 1992 presidential impeachment in Brazil to evaluate the impact of an anti-corruption drive on politically connected companies. I identify two types of firms: companies owned by friends and …
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Smooth Test and Its Applications in Economics and Finance
… parametric (for density forecast evaluation) and non-parametric (for comparing two unknown densities) techniques in formulating tests based on the probability integral transforms. In case of parametric applications of density forecast evaluation we have to account for the effect of parameter …
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Capital Consumption, Replacement, and Expansion in Accounting, Economics,and Finance
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T21:04:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6202934.pdf: 13858180 bytes, checksum: f3e890bf16bc371c67b5fbe59852cc3f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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Bayesian Analysis of Linear Inverse Problems with Applications in Economics and Finance
… point of view, the parameter of interest is a random function and the solution to the inference problem is the posterior distribution of this parameter. A regular version of the posterior distribution in functional spaces is characterized. However, the infinite dimension of the considered spaces …
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Nature versus nurture: the influence of personal attributes and traits in determining an individual’s risk taking in trading
My thesis examines the saliency and power that the personal attributes an individual is born with (nature variables) and life experiences (nurture variables) have on an individual's risk taking in trading. My research is motivated by studies in the psychology, economics and finance literature that …
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Essays in organizational economics
… is a collection of essays on organizational economics and finance-related topics. Firms and individuals who sell opinions may bias their reports for either behavioral or strategic reasons. Chapter 1 proposes a new methodology for measuring these biases, particularly whether opinion producers …
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Dealers, insiders and bandits : learning and its effects on market outcomes
This thesis seeks to contribute to the understanding of markets populated by boundedly rational agents who learn from experience. Bounded rationality and learning have both been the focus of much research in computer science, economics and finance theory. However, we are at a critical stage in …
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Distributed Supervised Statistical Learning
… size that, in most cases, cannot be stored and processed on a single computer. Often such data has to be distributed over multiple computers which then makes the storage, pre-processing, and data analysis possible in practice. In the age of big data, distributed learning has gained …
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The use of financial ratios to predict acquisition targets: a study of UK mergers 1980-1986
… value. Prior studies in accounting, economics and finance provide evidence that balance sheet and income statement ratios can be utilised to classify economic events such as mergers and bankruptcy which are of interest to decision makers. This research examines the financial profile …
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Consumer Economic Behavior and the Role of Information: Three Case Studies
The economics of information is a relatively new and important field of economics. This dissertation analyzes the role of information in three case studies within three different branches of economics: health economics, environmental economics, and finance and banking. First I analyze parental …
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Essays in financial economics
… pricing, dynamic stochastic general equilibrium and structural estimation of dynamic models. Chapter 1 introduces a global, nonlinear numerical method to solve a large class of continuous-time models in economics and finance. Using modern tools from Machine Learning, I show that the problem of …
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Intra-Sector Firm Performance and its Determinants in the UK Construction Industry
… industry. Using the value-based model and creating a conceptual tool of assessment from it comprising nine determinants, the research applies this tool to the industry. Over two decades of firm performance data in the key sectors are analysed to answer the firm’s performance question. …
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Essays on Measuring Monetary Policy Uncertainty and Forecasting Business Cycle
… models have become increasingly popular in macro-economics and finance. The stochastic volatility model with zero lower bound is designed for applying zero interest rate policy. The primary purpose of this paper is to provide particle filter algorithms for these models and make comparisons of the …
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