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production among countries since the value-added created by trade is forecasted based on a sound theory of production. This makes …
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Consumer perceptions the quality a service are often found to differ with expectations. The difference was least affected by the five-gap separation between the expectations the quality services offered, including the gap between customer expectations and perceptions of corporate management, the...
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The statistical variance of total project cost is usually estimated by means of Monte Carlo simulation on the assumption that exact analytic approaches are too difficult. This paper tests that assumption and shows that, contrary to expectations, the analytic solution is relatively...
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One of the factors affecting the success or otherwise of the procurement process is the quality of its financial management. In many cases, particularly in the early stages of a project, this is dependent on the accuracy of forecasts of future costs. For risk management purposes, what is most...
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This thesis develops methodology and asymptotic analysis for sparse estimators of the covariance matrix and the inverse … covariance (concentration) matrix in high-dimensional settings. We propose estimators that are invariant to the ordering of the … which combine thresholding with shrinkage applied to the entries of the sample covariance matrix. For both approaches we …
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This study proposes the return-earnings covariance as a proxy for the usefulness of earnings inferred from the absolute … return-earnings covariance is a close proxy for the absolute magnitude of price change which is free from noise in both … return and earnings. Thus, the return-earnings covariance can be used in long-window studies as well as short-window studies …
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frequently and in more detail. A combination of geostatisical models and analysis of covariance methods may be used to analyze … when analysis of covariance methods are used, and (iii) the effects of including a covariate whose support differs from …
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Vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den ökonomischen Auswirkungen der monetären Ströme im Sportsektor (produzierend und Dienstleistungen) für das Berichtsjahr 1995 in Form einer erweiterten Input-Output-Tabelle; dabei werden den gefundenen Ergebnissen und erstellten...
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The Hudson-Jorgenson Energy/Economic Model - formally known as the Long Term Interindustry Transactions Model (LITM) - is an econometric model of the structure of the US economy. LITM integrates two separate models into one integrated system. These models are the Macroeconomic Model, a growth...
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