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NGOs in China: effectively navigating supply and demand
Klein, Jodie Nicole - 2010
China has experienced incredible growth in the number of nongovernmental organizations (NGO) that occupy civil society. These organizations came forth at a time of rapid economic and political change. Instead of being given a supportive legal path for their work, NGOs have had to navigate the...
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Moralische Grundlagen der liberalen Demokratie : über die Notwendigkeit und Bestimmung liberaler Bürgertugenden
Egle, Christoph - 2000
Zahlreiche sozialwissenschaftliche Studien beschreiben den Zustand zeitgenössischer liberaler Demokratien als beängstigend und werfen somit die Frage auf, ob deren Bestand gefährdet sei. Diese Diagnosen aufnehmend fragt die vorliegende Untersuchung nach den Bestandsbedingungen der liberalen...
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Sustainable Development of Oil and Gas in the Niger Delta
Ekwere, Kingsley Udo - 2009
Since the late 1980s, the Niger Delta region of Nigeria has become the venue for mobilisation and protests by littoral states on the one hand and oil bearing communities and civil society groups on the other hand. They are protesting not only against ownership and control of oil and gas and the...
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Milk Price Volatility and its Determinants
Dong, Fengxia; Du, Xiaodong; Gould, Brian W. - 2011
statistically significant impacts on milk price volatility. While speculation positively affects milk futures markets, the effect …
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The Performance of Chicago Board of Trade Corn, Soybean, and Wheat Futures Contracts after Recent Changes in Speculative Limits
Irwin, Scott H.; Garcia, Philip; Good, Darrel L. - 2007
Three attributes of futures contract behavior important for market performance—liquidity, volatility, and convergence—are investigated before and after the 2005 increase in speculative position limits for corn, soybean, and wheat contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade. The analysis of...
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Price efficiency and speculative trading in cocoa futures markets
Nardella, Michele - 2007
In recent years a number of market participants called into question the efficiency of the price discoverymechanism in commodity futures markets. They believe that speculators move commodity futures marketsaway from their fundamentals by distorting prices and exacerbating volatility. The smoking...
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Devil or Angel? The Role of Speculation in the Recent Commodity Price Boom (and Bust)
Irwin, Scott H.; Sanders, Dwight R.; Merrin, Robert P. - 2009
, consistently lead futures pricechanges. Fourth, there is a historical pattern of attacks upon speculation during periods ofextreme …
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Applying Perceptrons to Speculation in Computer Architecture
Black, Michael David - 2007
Speculation plays an ever-increasing role in optimizing the execution of programs in computer architecture. Speculative … consequently do not realize their potential accuracy. Perceptrons, or simple neural networks, can be highly useful in speculation … speculation in computer architecture.This dissertation first studies how perceptrons can be made to predict accurately when they …
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Essays on the Impact of Investors Speculation and Disagreements on Security Prices and Trading Volume
Choy, Siu Kai - 2011
The essays empirically show the impact of investors speculation and disagreements on the returns and trading volume of … volatility speculation. This essay empirically shows that higher retail trading proportions are related to lower delta …
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Essays on speculation.
Slawski, Adam Wladyslaw - 2009
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2009. Major: Economics. Advisor: Narayana Kocherlakota. 1 computer file (PDF); iv, 65 pages, appendices A-B.
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