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Showing 1 to 20 of 22895 for “"Interest"”.
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Self-interest, national interest and the political leader's responsibility
… have called for international cooperation in the interests of humanity while the realists have emphasized self-interest and national power. An examination of the formation of the Panama Canal Treaties shows that neither school is adequate in explaining how national interest is defined. Instead, …
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Virtue and self-interest
… is that to act morally is in an agent's self-interest. Such an answer can be either elevationist (broadly speaking the Aristotelian/Platonic approach) where self-interest is elevated to coincide with living the good life, or reductionist where morality is defined as acting in an agent's …
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Multimethod analysis of interest
Interest has been studied to understand its role in learning and achievement and its role in matching people to vocations or areas of study. This research examined whether trait interests as studied within the learning perspective are equivalent to trait interests as studied within the vocational …
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Thin slices of interest
In this thesis we describe an automatic human interest detector that uses speech, physiology, body movement, location and proximity information. The speech features, consisting of activity, stress, empathy and engagement measures are used in three large experimental evaluations; measuring interest …
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Comparing user behavior when targeted based on firm inferred interest vs. user stated interest
… could facilitate collection of self-stated interest from voluntary users. This might potentially help firms to better understand users' true interests. The paper investigates the short run and long run impact of adopting the user stated interest into ad targeting, compared with targeting …
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American interest in Chinese literature
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1924.
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Education in the National Interest
… educational policy devoted to serving "national interests." It begins with an interpretation of the 1983 educational reforms that received the greatest publicity with the U.S. Department of Education document A Nation at Risk, which prescribed educational policies intended to serve the national …
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Pricing interest rate contingent claims
This thesis extends the previous work on interest rate contingent claims in several ways. First, futures pricing models and futures options pricing models are derived. These models are under the settings of both single state variable and two state variables. The derivations make use of regular …
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Covered Interest Parity and XVAs
Covered interest parity relies on a traditional no-arbitrage argument and states that the difference in interest rates between two currencies should be linked to the spot and forward exchange rates. One would expect an arbitrage opportunity to be traded away, however, the covered interest parity …
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Invoking the public interest in planning
… value to planning of the concept of the public interest is in question due to its lack of an agreed operational meaning (Campbell and Marshall 2002, Moroni 2006). This research identifies those aspects of the concept that are agreed on by discourses about the concept of the public interest found …
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Examining Interest in the Accounting Major
… was to identify factors that motivate students’ interest in accounting since students are more likely to pursue an accounting major when they are personally interested in the topic. Using the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) to guide the research, first- and second-year college students were asked …
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Financial intermediation and interest rate risk
This thesis analyses the link between interest rate risk faced by financial intermediaries in the G-10 countries, their balance sheet composition and national bank regulation. The regulatory authorities both in the US and in Europe increasingly emphasise the issue of bank interest rate exposure. …
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Centre of main interest and insolvency
Η παρούσα διατριβή εξετάζει τις νομικές προκλήσεις των διασυνοριακών περιπτώσεων αφερεγγυότητας σε μια οικονομία που γίνεται ολοένα και πιο παγκοσμιοποιημένη και υπογραμμίζει τον κεντρικό ρόλο του κέντρου των κύριων συμφερόντων (COMI). Λόγω της αυξανόμενης πολυεθνικής διασύνδεσης των επιχειρήσεων, …
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Essays in Banking and Interest Rates
… includes three papers on banking and interest rates. The first paper presents a theoretical model that studies the effect of universal banking on economic performance. I show that universal banks, because of their ability to extend the horizons of their relationships with borrowing …
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Trolle-Schwartz HJM interest rate model
The Trolle and Schwartz (2009) interest rate model prices interest rate derivatives in a generalised stochastic volatility framework. It is a reformulation of the multifactor Heath, Jarrow and Morton (1992) framework with stochastic volatility terms presented in an analogous fashion to the seminal …
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