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Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"Takeover"”.
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Information, insider trading and takeover announcements
This thesis focuses on the effect of takeover announcements in financial markets. We want to use a math model to analyze the inside traders' behavior when there is a potential takeover in the market. The thesis starts with a math model to capture the stock price dynamics, and then it states the …
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Takeover Required! Augmented Reality Head-Up Displays' Ability to Increase Driver Situation Awareness During Takeover Scenarios in Driving Automation Systems
… around them. We can present drivers with needed takeover information using a head-up display (HUD), keeping the driver's eyes on the road. However, drivers operating conditionally automated vehicles on various roadways, such as highways and urban arterial roads, require differ-ent information to …
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Takeover gains and the recognition of identifiable intangible assets
This thesis investigates a number of issues surrounding the recognition of identifiable intangible assets consequent to business acquisitions in Australia. There is a body of research that evaluates a firm’s decision to allocate acquisition premiums to identifiable intangible assets, rather than …
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Financial characteristics of takeover targets in the gaming industry
Forty-five takeover activities took place from 1989 to 1999. Decisions in takeovers may be affected by financial or non-financial factors. Since non-financial factors are hard to measure and quantify for analysis, this study investigates the financial characteristics of takeover target firms in the …
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The Takeover by a Literary Culture: Richard Rorty's Philosophy of Literature
… contribution had been his narrative about the ‘takeover’ by a ‘literary culture’ (PTG p. 4). I ask what work literature and a particular literary vocabulary does for Rorty as he articulates his own brand of pragmatism. Examining Rorty’s narrative as narrative, and foregrounding his constant …
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Exploring the Influence of Anger on Takeover Performance in Semi-automated Vehicles
… conducted to design the safest alerts for the takeover transition. However, more systematic research is still required to accurately predict driver responses to different parameters of the alerts. Also, takeover research has not considered drivers' states (e.g., emotions). Anger is one of the …
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The predictive ability of discriminant analysis to identify takeover targets for portfolio selection
This study utilizes the discriminant analysis technique in the development of a model able to predict acquisition targets. The model is tested in a portfolio selection setting to determine its ability to identify portfolios capable of performance superior to that of the market. The sample in the …
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The role of a board of directors in responding to an unsolicited takeover bid
The proliferation in the use of the "unsolicited takeover bid" as a means of acquiring corporate control has had profound implications, especially on large publicly traded companies. Although much has been written about the efficacy of takeover bids advancing shareholders' interests and economic …
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Francis A. Schaeffer : the force behind the evangelical takeover of the Republican Party in America
Over the last 40 years or so, Americans have been involved in a religious/political struggle that has divided the nation. The struggle has impacted American government, culture, the economy, and international relations. It has divided the American people, almost evenly between so-called secularist, …
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Hostile Takeover: The New Right Insurgent Movement, Ronald Reagan, and the Republican Party, 1977-1984
<p>The debates involved in the post-World War II period concerning the growth of the conservative movement center on factors such as race, a shift in public thinking to the right, a divided Democratic party, demographics, and cultural issues as a way to explain the success of conservatism in the …
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Thriving to Surviving: Stakeholder Lived Experiences of School District Takeover in Texas Under Broad Academy Leadership
… experienced and interpreted the 2023 state takeover of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) under broad Academy-aligned leadership. Guided by critical policy race analysis, neoliberal education reform theory, and the concept of coercive bureaucracy, the study centers the voices of …
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Timing of initial public offerings, seasoned equity offerings and takeover bids financed with equity: UK evidence
… Public Offerings, Seasoned equity offerings and Takeover activity financed with equity move together. Our second motivation is to see whether certain individual factors affect the timing of the three corporate activities. We focus our research effort on whether business conditions, adverse …
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Use of modern machine learning techniques to predict the occurrence and outcome of corporate takeover events
… learning to predict the occurrence of corporate takeovers. The findings show that random forest yields the best predictions out-of-sample based on the area under the curve (AUC) metric. As such, 8 independent variables are considered statistically significant. A time series machine learning …
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An Empirical Analysis of Takeover Predictions in the UK: Application of Artificial Neural Networks and Logistic Regression
This study undertakes an empirical analysis of takeover predictions in the UK. The objectives of this research are twofold. First, whether it is possible to predict or identity takeover targets before they receive any takeover bid. Second, to test whether it is possible to improve prediction …
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Narrative Characteristics in Refugee Discourse: An Analysis of American Public Opinion on Afghan Refugee Crisis After the Taliban Takeover
The United States (U.S.) military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 was met with turmoil as Taliban regained control of most of the country, including Kabul. These events have affected many and were widely discussed on social media, especially in the U.S. In this work, we focus on Twitter …
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Mergers and acquisitions : an analysis of strategies for corporations desiring to hold undervalued real estate without threat of hostile takeover
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1989.
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Defensive tactics against takeovers in theory and practice in the USA, the UK, South Africa, Germany and the EU
After the takeover wave of the 1970s and 1980s in the USA and in the United Kingdom the 1990s have experienced a more moderate takeover market. Nonetheless takeovers nowadays are a major issue all over the industrialised world, in economic and legal circles as well as in society. One rather …
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