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Showing 1 to 20 of 925 for “"Empirical Analysis."”.
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Industrial Tourism: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis
… context of tourism attraction theory, and tests empirically the extent to which visitors to industrial tourism attractions can be identified by using (a) a particular personality theory (Holland's 1985 theory of personality types), (b) demographics, and (c) past visitation. Prior to conducting a …
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Precision of Fairness Opinions: An Empirical Analysis
… sources are used to deduct hypotheses for the empirical research. The univariate and multivariate analyses have shown that the size of the target, a higher fraction of cash and multiple valuation models help to increase the precision. Hence, if a larger target is acquired with cash and …
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Empirical analysis and forecasting of yield curves
… yield curves. We used the Principal Component Analysis(PCA) , Nelson Siegel(NS) model, and Gaussian Regression Process(GPR) in order to fit and forecast the European yield curve with different maturities. The second part of this thesis focuses on the calibration of the term structure model, …
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An empirical analysis of quantitative trading strategies
… strategies and investigate their performances empirically i.e. by executing back-tests assuming that the S&P 500 stock index is a risky asset to trade. The strategies utilize the historical data of the stock index itself, trading volume movement, risk-free rate movement and implied volatility …
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An empirical analysis of European retail banking integration
… the 15 European Union countries. The macro-data analysis is performed on 19 sets of various monthly retail deposit and lending rates to the two components of retail banking, i.e. households and non-financial corporations. The micro-data analysis is perfonned on European retail banks' cost …
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Essays on the empirical analysis of energy risk
… contango, involve different dynamics. The first empirical part examines the very short-end of the futures curve volatility. To address in a realistic way the potential diverse response of oil volatility to fundamentals across high and low volatility regimes, augmented regime volatility models are …
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Management Performance in Leveraged Buyouts: An Empirical Analysis
The objective of this dissertation is to measure the extent of change in management performance after certain types of leveraged buyouts. A secondary objective is to provide insight into causes of performance changes.
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Organization Development and Organizational Change: An Empirical Analysis
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A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Interpersonal Trust
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An Empirical Analysis and Evaluation of Internet Robustness
… the global economic system, it is rare to find empirical analyses of the global pattern of Internet traffic data established via backbone connections, which can be defined as an interconnected network of nodes and edges between which bandwidth flows. Hence in this thesis, I use metrics based on …
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An empirical analysis of employee stock ownership plans
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1992.
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Empirical analysis of software refactoring motivation and effects
… such refactoring. The research investigates the empirical effects of a multi-year refactoring effort performed at a world-leading software development organization. DSM architectural representations of software pre- and post-refactoring were compared using core-periphery analysis, and various …
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Essays on the empirical analysis of accident law
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Inflation in Yugoslavia, 1962-1972; an empirical analysis.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1974. Ph.D.
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Empirical Analysis of User Passwords across Online Services
… this project, we perform the first large-scale empirical analysis of password reuse and modification patterns using a ground-truth dataset of 28.8 million users and their 61.5 million passwords in 107 services over 8 years. We find that password reuse and modification is a very common behavior …
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Empirical Analysis of Pneumatic Tire Friction on Ice
… tire mechanics. This study covers the design and analysis of a series of pneumatic tire tests on a flat-level ice road surface. The terramechanics rig of the Advanced Vehicle Dynamics Lab (AVDL) is a single-wheel test rig that allows for the experimental analysis of the forces and moments on a …
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Empirical Analysis of China’s Exchange Rate and Macroeconomic Policy
… time-varying parameter techniques, this study empirically demonstrates that China’s monetary policy framework is in the midst of transitioning to a market-based approach, and the analysis more closely examines the emerging monetary transmission mechanism in the modern era.</p> <p>Chapter 2 …
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