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It is a well-known fact that most of the asset returns tend to be skewed and heavytailed. Heavy tailed distributions such as the Student’s t distribution and Stable distribution are commonly used in finance to model asset returns that areheavy tailed. Additionally, Stable distribution allows...
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In the field of facility management, there are four main factors such as people, process, technology and also premises. In this study, factors of premise emphasized where the management of its space is to be managed efficiently and effectively. It is a regularly discussed topic as space...
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Leybourne et al. (1998) have proved the possibility of a `converse Perron phenomenon' when conventional Dickey-Fuller tests are applied to deter-mine the order of integration of a time series. That is, if the true generating process is I(1) but with a break, frequent spurious rejections of the...
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This paper analyzes the cost of long-term care (LTC) associated to individuals in dependence situation. The economic cost of care per unit of service is linked to the expected time of needed care and the intensity of required services. We have estimated the expected lifetime cost of LTC in...
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Grey system theory can powerfully deal with incomplete and uncertain information. In this paper, we introduced an …, Population and Energy consumption in the future. - Grey theory ; Markov chain ; prediction ; energy consumption …
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Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) exist for stock, bond and commodity markets. In most cases the underlying feature of an ETF is an index. Fund management today uses the active and the passive way to construct a portfolio. ETFs can be used for passive portfolio management, for which ETFs with...
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In this paper is carry out an analysis of affinities in the perception on how to leave the crisis behind. For that we have considered the opinion of experts belonging to the politics, the economy, the company and the banking in order to gather those opinions and to look for likeness and...
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within financial portfolios, the purpose of the current research was to improve the statistical estimation error associated … with Sharpe's ratio, offering an approach to point and confidence interval estimation which employs bootstrap resampling … and computational intelligence. This work also extends prior studies by minimizing the ratio's statistical estimation …
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conceptual risk assessment system (RAS) using combined risk map and fuzzy sets theory for assessing PPP projects risks. The … combined risk map and fuzzy sets theory approach is very effective to assess project risks across project, work package and … partnerships (PPPs) ; risk map ; fuzzy sets theory ; knowledge-based fuzzy inference system …
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This study contributes new empirical evidence on the profitability of a momentum strategy in the Philippines equity market. The study was conducted over the time period January 2000 to June 2012. We evaluated a momentum strategy based only on past return information as well as a strategy that...
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