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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"hedges"”.
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Bush's hedges on the environment : an analysis of George Bush's rhetoric on the environment.
This thesis examines the environmental rhetoric of the Bush administration. The analysis encompasses the months from September 1989 through April 1990. It was discovered that Bush utilized several rhetorical stratagems in representing himself as the "environmental president" while maintaining his …
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An Analysis of the Effects That Several Design Variables Have on the Accuracy and Precision of Glass’ Delta and Hedges’ g
… has on a sample of a population. In particular, Hedges' <em>g </em>and Glass delta are mean difference effect size estimators that are used to compute the effect sizes found in an experimental situation. A confidence interval is an interval placed around a point estimate that indicates the …
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An examination of hedging and boosting devices used in academic discourse: Case of 2014 and 2015 master of Arts in English Studies thesis at the University of Namibia
Hedges and boosters play different roles in academic discourse. This thesis is an analysis of the application of hedges and boosters in all ten theses of the Master of Arts in English Studies submitted and examined at the University of Namibia between 2014 and 2015. The primary aim of this study …
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Hedging in Written Academic Discourse: a cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary study /
… this research is limited to certain lexical hedges: modal verbs, lexical verbs and adverbials, which are analysed within the conceptual categories of epistemic modality, evidentiality and vagueness. The results of the research suggest that the variety of hedging devices is determined by the …
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Three essays in options pricing: 1. Volatilities implied by price changes in the S&P 500 options and future contracts 2. Price changes in the S&P options and futures contracts: a regression analysis 3. Hedging price changes in the S&P 500 options and futures contracts: the effect of different measures of implied volatility
… applications. I compare the performance of hedges using daily updated implied price change volatility and implied volatility and their averages. Data used in this study are tick-data on pit traded S&P 500 futures options and their underlying from 1998 to 2006. I find that implied price …
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Equity options and stochastic interest rates : error in Black-Scholes prices and hedges for European- and American-style equity options when short rates are Ornstein-Uhlenbeck
… the errors when using Black-Scholes prices and hedges for European equity options (Black&Scholes (1973), Merton (1973)) and American equity options (Karatzas (1988)) in an economy with stochastic interest rates. In particular, we consider an economy with Vasicek (1977) type interest rates.
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The income tax nature of derivatives hedges: A critical analysis of the classification of gains made hedging a capital share investment with a single stock futures contract
… facing the taxation of derivatives used as hedges was the capital/revenue distinction, due to the fact that the application of wellestablished legal principles to these new derivative instruments and investment strategies could lead to inequitable results. Notwithstanding recommendations …
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Conversational Interaction and Gender in Fiction /
… Attention was paid to tag questions and hedges, topic of conversation and choice of lexicon, also politeness and hesitations. The results show that women use more tag questions and hedges than men. The research has confirmed the theory that men and women speak about different topics and …
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Basic writers, oral strategies, and the writing process
… of production (coordinating conjunctions, hedges, neuter pronouns, collocations, etc.) -- Features of interaction (personal pronouns, hyperbole, emphatics) -- Textual analysis evaluation -- Comparison of written words, oral features, and essay grades or scores received.
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Basic writers, oral strategies, and the writing process
… of production (coordinating conjunctions, hedges, neuter pronouns, collocations, etc.) -- Features of interaction (personal pronouns, hyperbole, emphatics) -- Textual analysis evaluation -- Comparison of written words, oral features, and essay grades or scores received.
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Hedging in the multidisciplinary postgraduate theses of students in a Ghanaian University
… across disciplines in the appropriation of hedges. The results also revealed that the most used categories of hedging were modal auxiliaries and compound hedges. It was also established that the Findings/Discussions sections were the most heavily hedged sections; and the most hedged …
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The Inflation hedging properties of South African asset classes
… and cash were found to be anti-inflation hedges with contemporaneous and lagged inflation. However, although foreign asset classes do not offer protection against contemporaneously or lagged inflation, they do provide a leading return prior to inflation manifesting. Consequently, if …
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Hedging against exporting costs and risks in the South African extractive industry
… one of the industries referring from the use of hedges. The intention of this study is to improve the effectiveness of derivative instruments for companies in the extractive sector of South Africa exporting to the United States of America. South Africa is a large exporter and importer of goods, …
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A Unified Adaptive Robust Optimization Approach to Electricity Markets Under Uncertainty
… the scenarios against which the market operator hedges, while it is priced through new marginal pricing mechanisms. In Chapter 2, we provide marginal pricing for uncertainty in ARO as a technical enabler of the proposed market. We derive locational marginal prices for unit commitment problems …
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Stabilizing export revenue through futures markets: an application to cocoa exporting countries
… of a variance minimizing or utility maximizing hedges at a higher levels of risk aversion parameter as well as some selective strategies for hedging were found to give lower variance in revenue. There was always some trade-off associated with adopting these strategies. Selective strategies …
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Break-Even Volatility
… used to price the option and implement the hedges. Break-even volatility is a method of solving for the volatility which yields no profit or loss based on replicating the hedging procedure of an option on a historical share price time series. This dissertation investigates the traditional …
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Essays on Financial Markets
… to other financial markets. Minimum variance hedges are estimated in a number of different ways, and standard unconditional hedges are compared to conditional GARCH and moving average hedges in an out-of-sample fashion. The empirical results indicate some gains from hedging with futures, …
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A META-ANALYSIS OF ANTECEDENT EXERCISE ON CHILDREN’S CLASSROOM BEHAVIORS
… behavior and academically engaged behavior. Hedges <em>g </em>was used to calculate an omnibus effect size for all single case design studies as well as group design studies and indicated a large, significant effect for AAE on student behavior. A moderator analysis was conducted for student …
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Effect Sizes for Single Case Experimental Designs and Their Utility for a Meta-Analysis: A Simulation Study
… a reversal ABA'B' SCED via a simulation study. Hedges, Pustejovsky, and Shadishs (2012) Standardized Mean Difference effect size (_HPS) performed best when small to moderate degrees of autocorrelation were present. Partial regression coefficients also performed relatively well in most …
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Portfolio construction in South Africa with regard to the exchange rate
… that a few shares consistently act as the best hedges against R/$ depreciation and similarly a few shares are consistently the best at exploiting Rand strength. With this in mind two hedging techniques are compared in their ability to protect against a R/$ depreciation, and simultaneously …
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