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Showing 1 to 20 of 3403 for “"Prices"”.
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Forecasting diesel fuel prices
… and time-series models to forecast diesel prices. Several composite forecast techniques, such as averaging, least squared regressions, and Harvey, Leybourne, and Newbold encompassing procedures also are evaluated to determine if they can improve forecasting performance. Models are specified …
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Technology, trade, and prices
This thesis considers the structure of international production and trade. Chapter 2 uses direct information on factor input requirements to consider which elements best explain the patterns of actual technologies. If there is factor price equalization, all countries will share the same …
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Analyses of organic grain prices
… unknown. The lack of literature covering organic prices is not from a lack of interest but from a lack of information and data for organic commodities. This study examines two aspects of organic grain prices in an attempt to learn more about the organic grain sector. The first objective was to …
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Institutional Investors and Asset Prices
… have heterogeneous impacts on equilibrium market prices.</p><p>In the first chapter, I begin by documenting the substantial heterogeneity in portfolios across different types of investors. To explain this phenomenon, I build a model in which investors have different information processing …
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Determinants of Illinois farmland prices
… examines the determinants of Illinois farmland prices. Hedonic models are utilized to represent and analyze the defining characteristics of Illinois farmland. Models are applied to Illinois Department of Revenue farmland transfer data from 1979 to 2010. Particular attention is given to farmland …
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Bounds on baskets option prices
… under which the market approximation misprices basket options.
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Buyout prices in online auctions
… the following questions: How should buyout prices be set in order to maximize the seller's discounted revenue? What are the relative benefits of using each type of buyout option? While all existing buyout options we are aware of currently rely on a static buyout price (i.e. with a constant …
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Household saving and factor prices
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1998.
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Investors' horizon and stock prices
… between investors' trading horizon and stock prices. The first chapter explores the theoretical relation between the horizon of traders and the negative externality generated by their activity on the information revealed by stock prices. The last two chapters focus on the empirical relation …
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Investigating monthly beef cattle prices
… devoted to further investigation of beef cattle prices and factors influencing them. The same basic model was used with 1955 through 1961 data to explain Choice (R<sup>2</sup>=.9822) and Good (R<sup>2</sup>=.9919) steer prices at Chicago. However, before the relationship between price and the …
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Two Essays on Asset Prices
This dissertation consists of two chapters. The first chapter examines the role of growth options on stock return continuation. Growth options are both difficult to value and risky. Daniel, Hirshleifer and Subrahmanyam (1998) argue that higher momentum profits earned by high market-to-book firms …
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Tax expenditure and tax prices
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine an unexplored aspect of tax expenditures: the tax-price implications of tax exemptions, deductions and credits. Although this implication of tax expenditures has not been adequately examined, two separate lines of analysis have been suggested by the …
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The effects of oil prices and other economic indicators on housing prices in Calgary, Canada
… aims to answer: (1) to what extent can oil prices and other economic indicators predict the changes in housing prices and rent in the Calgary single family housing market and (2) to determine what the lag time is between them. Implications of this study from a macro perspective are multiple. …
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An analysis of cigarette prices and affordability in Africa: evidence from African Cigarette Prices (ACP) Data
… and Zimbabwe. I use the African Cigarette Prices dataset [n=9285], which has data collected in June and July 2016. Affordability is expressed as Relative Income Price (RIP), i.e., as a percentage of per capita GDP for all countries. For South Africa, affordability is also estimated …
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Un modelo affine de Stock Prices
Es sabido que los modelos que se suelen utilizar para el pricing de stocks asumen log normalidad de dividendos, ya sea comenzando por First Principals (donde existe un agente representativo que maximiza su utilidad) o con argumentos de no arbitraje. El modelo estándar que observamos parte de una …
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Asset Prices, Banking and Economic Activity
This dissertation examines the role of asset prices to act as a transmission and amplification mechanism. Specifically, it looks at how changes in asset prices can help transmit and amplify technology shocks through the credit channel by changing the supply of loanable funds, or changing the supply …
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Do customers learn from stock prices?
… underscore the real effects of financial market prices.
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Nonrandom characteristics of common stock prices
<p>"This study presents an application of operations research techniques to the development of stock price generation and simulation models to aid in the understanding of price movement. Relationships between stock price and volume and stock price and market averages which follow descernible trends …
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