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Showing 1 to 20 of 12585 for “"Offers"”.
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Demands And Offers In Ultimatum Games
… Similar to the previous study, mean and median offers of surplus in the embedded game are significantly lower than they are in the simple game. Furthermore, small changes in the framing and offer structure result in significant changes in observed offer and dispute behavior.
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The sequential organisation of offers and acceptances in Saudi Arabic
… investigates the sequential organisation of offers and acceptance in Saudi Arabic talk-in-interaction. This investigation is implemented through the use of the methodology of Conversation Analysis. Through analysing Saudi Arabic naturally-occurring data, I look at offer sequences as a whole, …
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The role of earnings announcements on preceding repurchase tender offers
The purpose of this study is to examine how subsequent earnings information is used by investors in resolving residual uncertainty about preceding repurchase tender offer announcements.
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Airline revenue management with dynamic offers : bundling flights and ancillary services
… request in real-time with a customized set of offers and prices. In these offers, ancillary services may be bundled with the flight. Selecting and pricing these offer sets represents a new joint pricing and assortment optimization problem in revenue management. We propose a formulation for the …
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Offers of compromises and schemes of arrangements in South African Company Law
There are many different reasons why people want to. acquire companies. Although takeovers are an extremely dangerous and high risk game, they are becoming more and more numerous in the modern business world. An acquiror, however, tries to minimize his risk by trying to take over a company with a …
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Offers of compromises and schemes of arrangements in South African company law
There are many different reasons why people want to acquire companies. Although takeovers are an extremely dangerous and high risk game, they are becoming more and more numerous in the modern business world. An acquiror, however, tries to minimize his risk by trying to take over a company with a …
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Two essays on shareholder returns and the form of financing in mergers and tender offers
… for bidding firms' stocks in mergers and tender offers using cross-sectional micro-firm data. First, we find that potential overpayments to target shareholders are important for explaining cross-sectional differences in bidders' returns upon the announcement of mergers and tender offers. Second, …
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Reservation Prices and Willingness to Accept Price Offers for Nonindustrial Forest Landowners in Western Virginia
The purpose of this thesis is to examine what motivates nonindustrial private forest landowners to accept bids of various levels for harvesting. Through the use of a survey we specifically consider what preferences and landowner characteristics effect these decisions. Landowners were randomly …
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PREDICTING THE RISK OF FRAUD IN EQUITY CROWDFUNDING OFFERS AND ASSESSING THE WISDOM OF THE CROWD
… to fraud signals by selecting (rejecting) offers with low (high) fraud risk. Because equity crowdfunding is quite new, no frauds have yet been identified. Therefore, I employ a predictive analytics tool, Benford’s Law, to assess the fraud risk of the offering. I select observable indicators …
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Factors that influence celebrities' personal brands: the effects of fan club membership offers on celebrity image
… celebrity's fan club. The fan club membership offers contained two manipulated variables: type of fan club membership (paid versus free), and celebrity and genre (pop/Lady Gaga versus country/Taylor Swift). The dependent variables in this study were the target market's attitudes toward the …
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Luminex Microsphere Immunoassay Offers an Improved Method in Testing for Antibodies to Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus in Sentinel Chicken Sera
Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus has a human mortality rate of 30% of those cases diagnosed, while 30% of those surviving infection remain with neurological sequelae for life (CDC.gov, 2007). The use of sentinel chickens for surveillance of arboviruses that are known to use birds as a reservoir …
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Stepping out of the Therapy Room - a phenomenological inquiry into what walking alongside clients in therapy offers the therapeutic process
… what walking alongside clients in therapy offers the therapeutic process. Firstly, therapy interactions are influenced by the dynamics of the therapeutic relationship has significance in the changed positioning of the client and practitioner side by side and walking. Secondly, the impact of …
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The Effects of Rejected Job Offers on the Costs and Benefits Associated with the Use of Banding Strategies for Employee Selection
… when high scoring minority applicants refused offers at a rate higher than high scoring majority applicants. Thus, the benefits that employers expect to see when utilizing the sliding band with minority preference selection strategy are not as great as previously believed.
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Two Annunciations: Examples of interpellation or offers of reception? a comparative analysis of pictures by Roger van der Weyden and René Magritte.
This thesis uses reception theory, as formulated by the late Wolfgang Iser, as well as ideas about interpellation or hailing, to compare and analyze two paintings: The Annunciation (c. 1435) by Roger van der Weyden and Personal Values (1952) by René Magritte. It demonstrates that interpellation and …
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EVALUATING THE SUCCESS OF BENEFIT FRAUD AND COMPLIANCE ACT IN AFFECTING WAGES AND OFFERS FOR SEVEN COMMON H1B OCCUPATIONS IN VIRGINIA, 2002-2010
… actual wages, proposed wages, and per-employer offers before and after BFCA.
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A critical analysis of the Angolan Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) law and the protection it offers to employees of the oil and gas industry
… OHS) law in Angola and the protection it offers to employees in the oil and gas industry. The current Angolan OHS legislation continues to be characterised by the pre-independence legal system inherited from the colonial era, which creates a crisis of legitimacy and justice. This crisis …
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A critical analysis of Gold Fields v Harmony Gold Mining : the effect of the court's decision on offers to the public for subscription of shares.
Includes bibliographical references.
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Enabling a generation of social entrepreneurs: A study to establish if the practice of social entrepreneurship offers inclusive self-employment opportunities for disenfranchised South African youth
… sample of the target group, the study offers new insights into the challenges faced when young people are seeking employment or want to start a business in the South African economy. Youth social entrepreneurship development and start-up incubation programmes arguably perform a critical …
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