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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Financial investments"”.
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Three essays in corporate finance
… proceeds of their equity offerings to invest in financial investments than during periods of low stock market valuations. The third chapter shows that the funds raised in stock offerings are used primarily to provide issuers with liquidity. In Chapter 1, I find that the growth opportunities of …
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Robo-Advising on South African Exchange Traded Funds utilizing Prospect Theory
… exclusively to automated advisory services for financial investments or wealth management. Currently, in the South African market, financial services firms offer their own robo-advising platforms that only provide automated advice about their own products. This paper investigates the possibility …
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A brief screening instrument for use by lawyers to assess the capacity of older clients with memory deficits
… of a lawyer, such as issues over wills and financial investments. Preventative law advocate lawyers act as therapeutic agents, preventing stress and discomfort in elderly clients making legal decisions. In order for practising lawyers to act as therapeutic agents, an ability to detect …
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Financial stocks and political bonds: stock market participation and political behavior in the United States and Britain
… on political behavior. Some observers claim that financial assets—stocks and mutual funds—have a causal effect on political behavior. The “investor class theory” asserts that as people invest in the stock market their partisan attachments shift rightward. The “asset effect theory” claims that …
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Bridging The Divide: Second Language Teachers, Pedagogy, Content Knowledge, And Technology
… divide that was thought to disappear with large financial investments. By looking at how K-12 second language teachers use technology and the differences that exist between title I and non-title I schools this study will serve to assess the current state of technology integration and offer …
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The Impact of Soft Costs Associated with the Implementation of New Information Technology in United States-Based Small to Medium Businesses on Productivity
… analysis that are not directly quantifiable as financial investments. The study explores the interplay between decision-making and implementation processes in SMBs when introducing new technology and their collective contribution to overall productivity, including additional exploration of …
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The effectiveness of tablet-based education in correctional facilities versus in-person education post-coronavirus pandemic
… and local governments have made significant financial investments in tablet-based educational programs in correctional facilities, the researcher provided data to determine if these entities should continue to invest funds into tablet-based educational programs in correctional facilities. The …
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Role of science parks in the development of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia
… question the rationale for making massive financial investments to build science parks. The study concludes that the science park strategy could be effective if the park management plays a more focused role in stimulating SME innovation.
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Machine Learning for causal Inference on Observational Data
… with medicine, but can be extensively used in financial investments, advertisement placements, recommender systems for retail and social sciences, and beyond. The ability to learn complex non-linear relationships of some machine learning algorithms have been trying to detect and predict …
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Modelling the Relationship between Parental Behaviour and Childhood Skill Development: Empirical Evidence from the UK and Canada
… (2007, 2008) to separately measure the effect of financial resources and of inputs to development in the form of parenting behaviours; to allow for literature from psychology and education to aid in the identification of multiple types of such parental inputs; and to examine the differing impacts …
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Delhi-- one city multiple destinies : impact of the metro rail on urban form
… the new transit system being one of the biggest financial investments in the city post independence is seen as an opportunity to restructure the city to accommodate an increase in population of 10 million people and also to define future urbanization trends in the region. This thesis is an …
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Investigating failure to implement contactless payments: a case of Near Field Communication payment systems in South Africa
… are external dependencies, lack of required financial investments, interoperability issues due to new and legacy systems, and lack of clear governance structures and bodies. The results of the study suggest that, when there is external dependence, but the tasks, resources required, actors' …
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The role of agents for change in the sustainable development of wave energy in the Highlands and Islands Region of Scotland
… was in the form of a complex dynamic between financial investments in the sector, national grid, national energy policy, and the technology itself. Financial investment in the wave energy sector was found to be limited by the national grid infrastructure and the slow rate of technology …
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Essays on the relations between derivatives and underlying asset or commodity markets
… practitioners, and regulators about whether financial institutions’ trades and holdings have had important impacts on commodity prices and their return dynamics. This paper uses a novel dataset of Commodity-Linked Notes (CLNs) to examine the impact of the flows of financial investors on …
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A framework for enhancing project quality and customer satisfaction in government road construction projects in Rivers State, Nigeria
… industry globally. In Nigeria, despite the huge financial investments in construction and its associated economic benefits, construction projects are characterized by poor quality in aesthetics, high costs in maintenance and failure to meet or exceed the customers’ quality expectations. An even …
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Subspace methods for portfolio design
Financial signal processing (FSP) is one of the emerging areas in the field of signal processing. It is comprised of mathematical finance and signal processing. Signal processing engineers consider speech, image, video, and price of a stock as signals of interest for the given application. The …
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Predictibilidad de los retornos en el mercado de acciones. Una Revisión Bibliográfica.
En el presente trabajo se realiza una revisión bibliográfica sobre los distintos enfoques para la predicción del retorno tanto de un índice de acciones como para algunas de ellas en particular para un horizonte de inversión tanto de corto plazo como de largo plazo. Históricamente tratar de predecir …
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A Quantamental approach to Bitcoin trading: Are we swinging for the Fences?
Financial companies from all around the world have started to focus their investments in quantitative and algorithmic funds. Those methods run in server applications that execute automatic trades. It is important to distinguish high frequency trading from machine learning trading. The latter is …
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THE LOCATION OF DAMAGE IN THE EU CONFLICT OF LAWS: THE CASE OF FINANCIAL LOSS IN THE CONTEXT OF BLOCKCHAIN TRANSACTIONS
… its use, the thesis analyses the case of pure financial loss that may occur when financial investments are made using these new technologies and the resulting impact from an international private law perspective. Part I introduces blockchain technology and the private international legal regime …
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A methodology for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of residential building stocks retrofits in Italy and Denmark
… level within the private sector and increasing investments, favoring the creation of additional cash flows as well. The possible combination of such multiple benefits makes the building sector a crucial field for policy makers at EU and national levels. Hence a policy framework that supports …
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