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In important conflicts such as wars and labor-management disputes, people typically rely on the judgment of experts to predict the decisions that will be made. We compared the accuracy of 106 forecasts by experts and 169 forecasts by novices about eight real conflicts. The forecasts of experts...
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This paper has two parts. In the first part, I articulate the short but significant evolution of the study of fractals. In the second part, I discuss the application of fractals to business models and business analytics. "Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not...
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-felt wish by teachers- even though they use textbooks with international focus- to teach Finance courses at tertiary … institutions with increasingly more and more local content in accounting, banking and finance subjects. The professionals, who make … markets as a ready source of peer-reviewed materials on Finance. …
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This paper examines tracking stock issuances, a relatively uncommon method of equity restructuring. I utilize likely the entire population of tracking stock issuances on US exchanges – from the first ever in October 1984 to the most recent one in November 2009 – in order to analyze the...
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Regression analysis has shown that recovery rates are determined by a variety of conditions at the time of default. These conditions can be broken into five major categories: (1) a security's seniority within the capital structure of the defaulting firm, (2) the type of default event, (3)...
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capital constraints imposed by costs of access to external finance.The second article focuses on the cost of inflating reports …
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finance and accounting necessary to manage health care organizations. The first course, HMP 608, covers financial accounting …. The second course, HMP 606, focuses on managerial accounting topics. This third course concentrates on corporate finance … topics. It aims to impart an understanding of how finance theory and practice can inform the decision-making of the health …
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This paper examines time-series patterns of external financing decisions and shows that publicly traded U.S, firms fund a much larger proportion of their financing deficit with external equity when the cost of equity capital is low. The historical values of the cost of equity capital have...
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presents some of the major concepts, principles, analytical methods and tools useful for making investment and finance … structure, portfolio strategy, equilibrium pricing of asset classes, investment performance measurement and benchmarking … estate terminology presented in the earlier course if they are not already familiar with basic real estate finance and …
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making strategies widely discussed in the literature. Our results reveal that strategy approaches for making profits based on … capabilities and market orientation approaches seem to fair much better. For scholars involved in the teaching of strategy, this …
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