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Showing 1 to 20 of 191 for “"forward-looking"”.
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Forward-looking bidders in sequential auctions
… of auctions. Buyers can therefore benefit from forward-looking bidding strategies that take into account the available information about future auctions. This dissertation develops a model of such bidding, provides both experimental and econometric evidence of the model's relevance to behavior, …
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A Forward-Looking Conceptualization of Information Privacy
<p>Privacy is a fluid and ever-evolving concept, studied across multiple fields and with numerous definitions. Privacy research in information systems (IS) is extensive yet has not traveled far beyond the IS realm and fully engaged in the broader conversations being had with regards to privacy. …
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Collision Avoidance Using a Low-Cost Forward-Looking Sonar for Small AUVs
… we consider the case of a small AUV using a forward-looking sonar system with a limited number of beams. We describe a high-fidelity sonar model and simulation environment that was developed to aid in the design of the sonar system. The simulator achieves real-time visualization through ray …
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Looking Forward, Looking Back, Looking Inward: Lessons from Vital Women Leaders in Old Age
Current social paradigms, based on established theory about the aged, consider old age as a time of drastic decline and deterioration and view the aged as nonproductive takers of society's resources. Far from using the wisdom and resources of the aged population, our society marginalizes old adults …
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Integrating a RESON 7131 forward looking sonar into the REMUS 2500 underwater autonomous vehicle
… follows the process of integrating an advanced forward looking sonar (FLS) onto an existing UUV to increase object detection, avoidance, and classification capabilities. Conceptualization of the new vehicle hardware utilized computer-aided design to meet design requirements while maintaining all …
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Improved geo-referencing and prescreening for detection of buried explosive hazards in forward-looking infrared imagery
… proposed algorithm is used in conjunction with a forward-looking buried explosive hazard detection system which consists of an infrared camera mounted on a moving platform equipped with an inertial navigation system. This system requires fast and accurate geo-referencing in order to convert alarms …
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Forward looking information disclosures, earnings management practices, and "the CEO's" personal characteristcs: the case of Jordan
… to examine the relationship between the level of Forward-Looking Information Disclosure (FLID) and Earnings Management (EM) practices among non-financial Jordanian companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) during the period 2008-2013. Content analysis was used to explore the items of …
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A historical analysis of the West Coast rock lobster fishery in South Africa with forward-looking implications for policy
The newly formed Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) began collecting data on fisheries in the early 1950s. At this time, the industry faced a period of extremely rapid expansion. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s the growth of yields far exceeded human population growth while fisheries remained …
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ESSAYS ON MONETARY ECONOMICS
… dynamics and money demands. Chapter 1 tests the forward-looking New Keynesian Phillips curve using a novel panel data set for the 50 U.S. states from year 1977 to 2005. Consistent with Gali and Gertler (1999), our results support a linkage between inflation and real unit labor cost, and reject a …
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The Price is Right: Examining Demand for Medical Care in the Presence of Deductibles
… whether this group of consumers is myopic or forward-looking by examining which price, current or expected end-of-year, women use when making purchasing decisions. The results show that women who give birth in a calendar year face lower expected end-of-year prices, but combined with other …
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Cognitive Microfoundations of Industry Foresight and Strategic Investments: Evidence Within the Global Automotive Industry
… have emphasized the important role of managers’ forward-looking cognition amidst this uncertainty as a driver of decision-making and ultimately firm performance. However, extant literature is surprisingly unclear regarding how managers can generate superior forward-looking cognition (industry …
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The Value Relevance of Accounting Information: The Influence of Economic Conditions and Monetary Policy
… accounting values and examine the impact of forward-looking economic conditions and Federal monetary policy. I find that monetary policy is negatively related to value relevance; therefore, during expansive monetary policy, often surrounding a weak economy, value relevance declines. In the …
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Systematic asset allocation using flexible views for South African markets
… on time and market environments, and derives a forward-looking distribution that is consistent with this view while remaining as close as possible to the prior distribution. The framework derives the forward-looking distribution by applying unequal time and state conditioned probabilities to …
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Consumption and saving decisions in the face of choices about housing and pensions
… housing and pension wealth accumulation, in forward-looking models. The first of three chapters on housing presents a model of housing demand over the life cycle, and examines its sensitivity to prices and borrowing constraints. Demand responses can be unusual: when the price of housing goes …
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Robust optimization for portfolio risk : a ravisit of worst-case risk management procedures after Basel III award.
… empirical results encourage us to construct a forward-looking stress test procedure based on robust portfolio optimization under regime switches. For this purpose, the Markov chain process is embedded into robust optimization procedure in order to stress regime transition matrix. In addition, …
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Branchenspezifische makro- und mikroökonomische Einflussgrössen und deren Auswirkungen auf den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg von privaten Schweizer Sicherheitsdienstleistern. Eine qualitative empirische Studie
… and self-regulation. At the corporate level, forward-looking and innovative business models alongside novel services should be developed. This study provides a valuable contribution to the state of knowledge of the environment of macro-and microeconomic variables influencing Swiss security …
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Toward the computational transformation of legal theory and practice
… technological progress by exploring adaptive and forward-looking governance approaches.
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… Cullen. investigates whether individuals exhibit forward looking behavior in their response to the nonlinear pricing common in health insurance contracts. Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that employees who join an employer-provided health insurance plan later in the calendar year face the …
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Dynamic routing on stochastic time-dependent networks using real-time information
… events) and then integrate these models with the forward-looking routing models. The dynamic nature of our routing decisions exploits the real-time information available from various ITS sources, such as loop sensors.</p> <p>The forward-looking traffic dynamic models for individual arcs are based …
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