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TECHNICAL ANALYSIS ON FOREIGN EXCHANGE: 1975 - 2004
Rubio, Fernando - EconWPA - 2004
The aim of this paper is to determine the potential profitability of technical analysis applied on the foreign exchange … commissions nor indexation are included in the analysis, some investment strategies outperform the index. There is little evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134787
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Analyzing Quantitative Models
JS, Armstrong; George, Shapiro - EconWPA - 2005
How can a potential user distinguish between a quantitative model that may be of some real value and one that is not? The model builder rarely provides much help, since most are advocates of their own work and tend to lose their objectivity toward the model. Therefore, an independent evaluation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408126
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Visions and Scenarios: Heilbroner's Worldly Philosophy, Lowe's Political Economics, and the Methodology of Ecological Economics
Forstater, Mathew - EconWPA - 2004
common themes in this work regarding the importance and nature of vision, analysis (including structural analysis), scenarios …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412551
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THE NIGERIAN COAL CORPORATION: AN EVALUATION OF PRODUCTION PERFORMANCE(1960 1987)
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
COAL WAS DISCOVERED IN NIGERIA IN 1909 AND COAL MINING STARTED WITH A DRIFT MINE AT OGBETE, ENUGU IN 1915. SINCE 1958/59, WHEN COAL PRODUCTION REACHED ITS PEAK, THERE HAS BEEN A PERSISTENT FLUCTUATION IN THE AMOUNT OF COAL PRODUCED IN SUBSEQUENT YEARS. THIS PAPER THEREFORE INVESTIGATES THE MAJOR...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412925
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Optimal Audit Policy and Heterogenous Agents
Ratto, Marisa; Vergé, Thibaud - EconWPA - 2003
to behave dishonestly. The audit policy should therefore be different for different categories of agents. This paper … focuses on the optimal audit policy when there are two categories of agents and shows that the auditor adopts different … policies depending on its budget. When resources are quite limited, the auditor sets identical audit probabilities for both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412503