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Health Ballistics: Multiple Reference Point Informed Probability Theory
Washburn, Paul Jordan - In: International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare (IJUDH) 6 (2016) 1, pp. 5-56
Health Ballistics aims to quantify preventive health measures in relation to their health impact on an individual's productive lifespan, and in turn for a societally beneficial impact. An uninformed individuals behaviors will significantly affect their overall Health Wealth Commodity and are...
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Patient Satisfaction Regarding Health Education and Practice Environment Using the PPAESS Survey
Washburn, Paul Jordan - In: International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare (IJUDH) 6 (2016) 1, pp. 57-64
The waiting room and the examination rooms are the two central locations patients spend time in a primary care environment. Patient health outcomes and satisfaction are significant contributing factors for reimbursement The Patient Practice And Education Satisfaction Survey (PPAESS) tool has...
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Finance Causes Growth: Can We Be So Sure?
Manning, Mark J - In: Contributions in Macroeconomics 3 (2003) 1
In recent years, a number of studies have found in favour of a causal link between finance and growth. This paper … separate coefficients for OECD and non-OECD member countries. We find that finance has a greater impact upon growth in non …-OECD countries, with bank finance of particular importance. Second, we explore the issue of identification, concluding that it is …
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A Study of Intraday Volatility Trading Utilizing High Frequency Data and the Microstructure Effects of Implementation
Murray, Jennifer Wells - 2010
In this dissertation I examine an intraday volatility trading strategy by comparing two different measures of volatility: option-implied volatility and beta-implied volatility. The methodology of pairs trading is applied to these two measures of volatility and is empirically tested through the...
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Stochastic Volatility Model with Jumps in Returns and Volatility: Performance and Implementation
Numatsi, Adjoa K - 2010
This thesis examines the performance and implementation of the stochastic volatility model with jumps in return and volatility (SVCJ) of Duffle et al. (2000), and compares it to a GARCH(1,1) to assess whether SVCJ is worth the effort needed for its usage; we then propose directives to ease its...
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Analysis of the Optimum Capital Structure of the Firm under Arbitrage, Agency and Asymmetric Information Theories
Durdock, Joseph Gregory - 2010
Since the publication of the classical papers by Modigliani and Miller in 1958 and 1963, the relationship between the equity value of the firm and its capital structure has been continually studied by numerous scholars. Among other hypotheses, we examined arbitrage, agency, asymmetric...
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China's new millennium financial liberalization programs: Economic risks to the Chinese retail investor
Costabile, M Audrey - 2008
This paper provides a detailed history and evolution of four new millennium liberalization programs implemented in China between 2003 and 2006: Non-tradable share reform, the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) program, the Renminbi currency revaluation, and the Qualified Domestic...
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Macroeconometrics of investment and the user cost of capital
Chuaprapaisilp, Thethach - 2009
the real rental price of capital services or the after-tax costs of holding capital (interest/opportunity cost of finance …
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On the duration of large current account imbalances
Kintanar, Kristine Angela Uy - 2009
The sustainability of "global imbalances" or large current account deficits are analyzed using duration or survival analysis models to determine the effect of key macroeconomic variables on the duration of large current account imbalances. For the emerging market economies most often associated...
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Emerging countries stock markets: An analysis using an extension of the three-factor CAPM
D Souza, Mario Innocent - 2002
The stock markets of India and South Korea became partially liberalized in 1992. Has this liberalization led to stock market efficiency? The overall goal of this paper is to test if the stock markets in these two countries have become truly informationally efficient in the Fama sense. A...
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