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Decision Making in Incomplete Markets with Ambiguity -- A Case Study of a Gas Field Acquisition
Zhao, Lin; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
We apply utility indifference pricing to solve a contingent claim problem, valuing a connected pair of gas fields where the underlying process is not standard Geometric Brownian motion and the assumption of complete markets is not fulfilled. First, empirical data are often characterized by...
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Biodiversity Prospecting over Time and under Uncertainty: A Theory of Sorts
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
Biodiversity prospecting refers to the exploration of the commercial value of genetic and biochemical resources. In this chapter, we study a drug producing pharmaceutical firm (PF) that searches for potentially useful chemicals made by wild organisms in a conservation area. This PF is able to...
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Investment, Expectations and Uncertainty: Empirical Evidence on the Relevance of Firm Size
Koetse, Mark J.; Vlist, Arno J. van der; Groot, Henri … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
This paper analyses the effect of uncertainty on investment spending. We analyse twotypes of investment, i.e. aggregate … investment and investment in energy saving technologies,using subjective evaluations of expectations and uncertainty of Dutch … general investment spending. Furthermore, expectationsand uncertainty have important although different effects on investment …
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The Outflow Ranking Method for Weighted Directed Graphs
Brink, René van den; Gilles, Robert P. - Tinbergen Instituut
A ranking method assigns to every weighted directed graph a (weak) orderingof the nodes. In this paper we axiomatize the ranking method that ranksthe nodes according to their outflow using four independent axioms. This outflowranking method generalizes the ranking by outdegree for directed...
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Large Deviations Methods and the Join-the-Shortest-Queue Model
Ridder, Ad; Shwartz, Adam - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
We develop a methodology for studying ''large deviations type'' questions. Our approach does not require that the large deviations principle holds, and is thus applicable to a larg class of systems. We study a system of queues with exponential servers, which share an arrival stream. Arrivals are...
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On the Optimal Policy for Deterministic and Exponential Polling Systems
Gaujal, Bruno; Hordijk, Arie; Laan, Dinard van der - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
In this paper, we consider deterministic (both fluid and discrete) polling systems with N queues with infinite buffers and we show how to compute the best polling sequence (minimizing the average total workload). With two queues, the best polling sequence is always periodic when the system is...
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Finite-State Markov Chains obey Benford's Law
Kaynar, Bahar; Berger, Arno; Hill, Theodore P.; Ridder, Ad - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <I>Siam Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (2011). Volume 32, issue 3, pages 665-684.<P> A sequence of real numbers (<I>x<sub>n</sub></I>) is Benford if the significands, i.e. the fractionparts in the floating-point representation of (<I>x<sub>n</sub></I>), are distributed...</i></i></p></i>
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Large Deviations without Principle: Join the Shortest Queue
Ridder, Ad; Shwartz, Adam - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <I>Mathematical Methods of Operations Research</I> (2005). Volume 62, issue 3, pages 467-483.<P> We develop a methodology for studying "large deviations type" questions. Our approach does not require that the large deviations principle holds, and is...</p></i>
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Hedge Fund Portfolio Diversification Strategies across the GFC
Allen, David E.; McAleer, Michael; Peiris, Shelton; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
This paper features an analysis of the effectiveness of a range of portfolio diversication strategies as applied to a set of 17 years of monthly hedge fund index returns on a set of ten market indices representing 13 major hedge fund categories, as compiled by the EDHEC Risk Institute. The...
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European Market Portfolio Diversification Strategies across the GFC
Allen, David E.; McAleer, Michael; Powell, Robert J.; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
This paper features an analysis of the effectiveness of a range of portfolio diversification strategies as applied to a set of daily arithmetically compounded returns on a set of ten market indices representing the major European markets for a nine year period from the beginning of 2005 to the...
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