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Showing 1 to 20 of 109 for “"coupon"”.
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The term structure of zero-coupon and coupon bonds: a comparative analysis
The behavior of the term structure of zero-coupon bonds parallels the behavior of coupon bonds. Previous studies have demonstrated that there are synchronous changes among different maturities of coupon bonds. Results of statistical and sign tests are used to measure the degree of synchronicity, …
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Exploration vs. exploitation in coupon personalization
… This information enables more profitable coupon allocation and higher profits in the long run. In this thesis we 1) derive approximate inference algorithms to learn customer preferences from purchase data in real time, 2) formulate the retailers' offer allocation problem as a multi armed …
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Kac's random walk and coupon collector's process on posets
… second part, we consider a generalization of the coupon collector's problem in which coupons are allowed to be collected according to a partial order. Along with the discrete process, we also study the Poisson version which admits a tractable parametrization. This allows us to prove convexity of …
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A Bayesian bandit approach to personalized online coupon recommendations
A digital coupon distributing firm selects coupons from its coupon pool and posts them online for its customers to activate them. Its objective is to maximize the total number of clicks that activate the coupons by sequential arriving customers. This paper resolves this problem by using a …
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Material Properties of Human Rib Cortical Bone from Dynamic Tension Coupon Testing
… of human rib cortical bone using dynamic tension coupon testing. This study presents 117 human rib cortical bone coupon tests from six cadavers, three male and three female, ranging in age from 18 to 67 years old. The rib sections were taken from the anterior, lateral, and posterior regions on …
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The cost of using misspecified models to exercise and hedge American options on coupon bearing bonds
… and hedge American options on South African coupon bearing bonds, when the simulated market term structure is driven by a two-factor model. Even if the single factor models are re-calibrated on a daily basis to the term structure, we find that the exercise and hedge strategies can be …
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An empirical investigation of how perceived devaluation and income effects influence consumers' intended utilization of savings from coupon redemption.
Coupons are one of the most popular and attractive tools of promotion. Redeeming coupons makes shoppers feel that they are doing something good for their family's budget, because coupons offer 'savings.' On the other hand, a coupon might have several negative effects on purchase behavior as well, …
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The term structure of interest rates: a comparative analysis of zero-coupon bond forward rates and Eurodollar futures rates
… changes among different maturities of coupon and zero-coupon bonds. Evidence has also been found that the magnitude of these synchronous changes is inversely related to the time to maturity. This study uses the Anderson-Leies synthetic zero-coupon yield curve from Caroline Leies' study …
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A study of the relationship between discount coupons and repeat behavior of customers for pizza restaurants
Currently, coupons are the most popular and relied-upon form of consumer sales promotion in the United States (Schultz et al., 1993). The primary purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between discount coupons and repeat purchase in pizza restaurants. The objective of the study was …
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An experimental investigation of the consumer perception of products featured on coupons
… determine whether different characteristics of a coupon can impact consumer perceptions of the brand featured on coupons. An experiment using a homogeneous group of male subjects in a controlled classroom setting exposed subjects to one of eight coupons, each representing one of eight possible …
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Experimental Investigation of Initial Onset of Sand Deposition in the Turbine Section of Gas Turbines
… at a constant velocity of 70 m/s. The target coupon is made of Hastelloy X, a nickel-based alloy and the angle at which the particles impact the coupon varies from 30° to 80°. The experiments were performed with different amounts of total particle injected, concentration, and coupon angle to …
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Understanding Manufacturer-Sponsored Copay Assistance Programs For Pharmaceuticals
… While manufacturers claim that their "copay coupons" help underinsured patients access valuable therapies, insurers are concerned that the discounts undermine cost-sharing as a means to address moral hazard and constrain prices. To date, research and policy on coupons have largely focused on …
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Qualification and characterization of metal additive manufacturing
… factors was completed by experimenting with coupon orientation, position on the build platform, coupon shape and hot isostatic pressing (HIP) post-treatment for an Al alloy (AlSi10Mg) produced via laser powder bed fusion using 400-watt laser equipment. Only coupon orientation had a …
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Effect of Temperature on Microparticle Rebound Characteristics at Constant Impact Velocity
… from a polished high temperature material coupon. The high temperature coupon was tested at different temperatures of ambient (300K), 873K, 1073K, 1173 K, 1223 K, 1273 K, and 1323 K while the velocity of the flow field was held constant at 28 m/s or 70 m/s. The impingement angle of the …
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An investigation of liquefied shear strength using novel centrifuge tests, direct simple shear tests, and field case histories
… velocity) a thin metal plate (referred to as a coupon) horizontally through liquefied soil, were performed to mimic shearing along a critical slip surface in a flow liquefaction failure and to produce additional data pairs of su(liq) and CPT tip resistance. Porewater pressure along the coupon …
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Pricing of contingent claims under the real-world measure
… prices, primary security accounts, and even zero-coupon bonds. We begin with application of the real-world pricing formula to derive forward prices for each of these financial quantities. The obtained formulae are model independent, yet reveal important differences between the real-world arid …
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Effects of Shallow Bi-Angle, Thin-Ply Laminates on the Structural Performance of Composite Wings
… bring to fiber reinforced polymer composites. Coupon- and structural-level tests are conducted along with numerical simulations. According to the coupon tests, we find that shallow bi-angle fibers and thin plies can increase the axial stiffness of laminates significantly at the cost of …
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Experimental Investigations of the Onset of Sand Deposits on Hastelloy-X between 1000 C and 1100 C
… to linearly increase with temperature for all coupon angles tested. The model was able to explain approximately 67% of the deposition that occurs, with the remaining percentage due to other factors such as injection rates and surface temperature. The second study describes an improved …
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Bayesian smoothing spline models and their application in estimating yield curves
… smoothing spline model for extracting the zero-coupon yield curve from coupon bond prices, and the Bayesian thin-plate splines for modeling the yield curves on both the calendar time and the maturity. In addition, the Bayesian model selection in the smoothing spline models is developed to test …
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