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Showing 1 to 20 of 158 for “"endowment"”.
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The Endowment Effect: A Self-Enhancement Perspective
… buyer and seller evaluation, referred to as the endowment effect, has been investigated and replicated across various domains because of its implications for rational decision-making. The endowment effect has been explained as a manifestation of loss aversion from the reference point of …
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Endowment effect, Status Quo Bias y default option.
… antes y después de poseerlo. A esto se le llama “Endowment Effect”, (Thaler, 1980) y será analizado en profundidad en el capítulo III. En el segundo ejemplo, se observa que el individuo se rehúsa a cambiar su situación por una mejor, este comportamiento opuesto a lo que se propone en la Teoría …
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Female Bildung Before Goethe: An Early Modern Rogue's Endowment
<p>My dissertation traces the genealogy of the <em>Bildungsroman</em> hero backwards from Goethe’s<em> Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship</em> to Early Modern Englishwomen writer’s textual negotiations within a male dominant, humanist society. Writers like Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn, and Mary …
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International real estate investments by US pension and endowment funds
… investors. Pension Plan Sponsors and Endowment Funds have sought out foreign real estate to accomplish a variety of goals, such as increased diversification, higher returns, and the pursuit of unique investment opportunities. This thesis attempts to shed light on the current state of …
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Effects of Neonatal Dexamethasone on the Maturation and Endowment of Cardiomyocytes
… takes place to ensure adequate cardiomyocyte endowment in the mature heart. The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that neonatal dexamethasone exposure causes premature cardiomyocyte terminal differentiation, to elucidate potential molecular targets, and evaluate the role of …
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The 1986 National Endowment for the Arts Commission: An Introspective Analysis of Two Marimba Works
… only in the last sixty years. The 1986 National Endowment for the Arts Solo Marimba Commission is considered one of the most important commissioning projects in the history of marimba literature. Two compositions created through this project, Velocities by Joseph Schwantner and Reflections on the …
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Trace Element Geochemistry of Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits in Archean Greenstone Belts: Implications for Metal Endowment and Geodynamic Settings
The Neoarchean greenstone belts of the Canadian Superior Province host world-class Au and base metal (Cu-Zn-Pb) massive sulfide deposits with distinct geological features, including a wide range of different host rocks and crustal settings. The range of settings is reflected in the trace metal …
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The case for pension plan and university endowment equity investment in brownfields in the urban core of major metropolitan areas
… metropolitan areas. Pension plans and university endowments are the primary institutional investors focused on in the study, due to the implied obligation to seek economic and social returns associated with their investments. The thesis will discuss primary forces that have historically limited …
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An investigation into the use of the Black-Scholes model for pricing long term options, for the purpose of costing maturity guarantees
… guarantees concerned are typically given on endowment policies issued by life offices. These endowment policies have terms usually in excess of five years. The thesis investigates whether the assumptions underlying the Black-Scholes model, which was developed for pricing short term traded …
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Quantifying spatial association between mineral deposits and geology across three African crustal segments of different age, with implication for secular change in mineralization during earth history
… deposits with which to 'fingerprint' the metal endowment of African crust of different age. Three areas of juvenile African crust (e.g. mantle derived over similar lengths of time of ~500 million years, and excluding recycled older crust) of different ages with similar geology are compared. The …
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The impact of federal legislation on the arts and the humanities : 1960 to present.
… humanities through the creation of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. From analyzing and researching each presidential administration since the 1960s, today’s current events in the museum field are not the first of their kind, and most likely will …
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Three essays in development economics
… in rural China responds to inequities in endowment between children. In the first chapter, I evaluate the impact of village-level land reallocations in China on household economic outcomes. Since land was decollectivized in China in 1983, village leaders have implemented regular forced …
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Three Essays On Early Childhood Development In Chile
… respond to differences in the initial endowment between siblings within families, and how parental preference tradeoffs vary between families with different maternal education. Using ELPI twins data, I find that preferences are not at the extreme of pure compensatory investments to …
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Perinatal Hypoxia Exposure on the Developing Heart: The Role of Endothelin-1
… key process in determining</p> <p>cardiomyocyte endowment, and thus cardiac function, is the period of terminal differentiation. This involves the maturation of cardiomyocytes and is essential to heart development, however acceleration of this process may alter cardiomyocyte endowment. …
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Institute for Digital Research and New Offices for the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities located in the Columbia Heights Neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
… to be a satellite office for both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as a digital research institute. The institute seeks to provide integrated collaboration with the NEA and NEH, although it is also open to collaboration with other …
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Unravelling the dynamics of authoritarian strategies : a comparative study of Suharto’s new order in Indonesia and Jammeh’s rule in the Gambia
… make two assumptions that state: 1. Low resource endowment leads to high repression, and 2. High resource endowment leads to low repression and high co-optation. To understand this phenomenon, I compared Yahya Jammeh (1994–2016) in the Gambia (a low resource authoritarian regime) and Suharto …
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Orçamento público: uma análise comparativa das ações fixadas no QDD da PMPB 2016 e suas realizações
… of the State, presents exclusive budgetary endowment and administrative independence. Thus, this research sought to verify the results of the budgetary endowment of the actions of the Military Police of Paraíba in 2016. For that, the research was classified as descriptive, for reporting …
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Cultivating and Sustaining Theater Education Programs in Public Schools: Curricula, Teachers, Community, and Leadership
… and student assessment (Bennett, 2001; National Endowment for the Arts, 1988); 2) qualified teachers who demonstrate effective pedagogy and practices (Catterall, 2009; National Endowment for the Arts, 1988); 3) Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) and professional development opportunities …
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Institutional credit for agriculture in Bangladesh
… requirement) for credit, the land, financial endowment and education influencing the supply of formal credit. Stated demand for credit and the land appeared as the most important significant factors determining supply of credit. Education, on the pooled observation, was found to have …
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