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Stock Exchanges in the Middle East: Risky Business or Smart Investing?
Haddad, Jed A. - 2011
The goal of any investor is to obtain the highest possible return for his or her money. However for years, the debate has continued; stocks, bonds, mutual funds; which of these financial instruments will produce the greatest gain to give the investor the highest profit? Historically, stocks have...
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Essays on the Impact of Stakeholders' Sentiment on the Financial Decision Making Process
Arunachalam, Aravinthan - 2008
and after the acceptance of a project. The last essay, Investor Sentiment and Optimal Portfolio Selection, analyzes how … the investor sentiment affects the nature and composition of the optimal portfolio as well as the performance measures …. Results suggest that the choice of the investor sentiment completely changes the portfolio composition, i.e., the high …
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Using Spread and Net Trading Range to Measure Risk in Suitability Cases
Booth, Richard A. - 2006
difficult issues to resolve. Up to now there has been no easy and reliable way to compare the risk of one stock or portfolio … with another stock or portfolio measured as of the time the investment decision in question was made. As I argued in an … elegant and fine-grained measure of risk for a stock or portfolio that can be computed with readily available data and used to …
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Capital and operating cost estimates. Volume I. Preliminary design and assessment of a 12,500 BPD coal-to-methanol-to-gasoline plant. [Grace C-M-G Plant, Henderson County, Kentucky...
2009
allows for ready assessment of impacts of escalation rates (inflation), contingency allowances and the construction interest … rates has as a basis the schedule and engineering documentation found in Deliverable No. 14b - Process Engineering and …
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AMMA 2005 Dakar International Conference to be Held November 28-December 2, 2005
Lamb, Peter - 2008
Consistent with the original proposal (dated April 14, 2005), the grant supported the participation in the above conference of a number of West African meteorologists, the majority of whom will be supporting the ARM Mobile Facility deployment in Niamey in various ways during 2006.The following...
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The Electronics Quality/Reliability Center: Lessons learned from partnering with industry
Dellin, T.A. - 2008
The government electronics community faces the exciting challenge of entering into new of types of partnerships with the commercial electronics industry. Past interactions have been based primarily on the needs of government. Future interactions will be based more on the needs of industry,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435450
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Los Alamos National Laboratory Building Cost Index
Orr, H.D.; Lemon, G.D. - 2008
The Los Alamos National Laboratory Building Cost Index indicates that actual escalation since 1970 is near 10% per year. Therefore, the Laboratory will continue using a 10% per year escalation rate for construction estimates through 1985 and a slightly lower rate of 8% per year from 1986 through...
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Revision of FED-STD-209D and MIL-STD-1246B and development of IES (Institute of Environmental Sciences) contamination control recommended practices in the United States of America
Mielke, R.L. - 2008
In the United States of America, numerous organizations are writing standards and recommend practices for contamination control and cleanroom applications. The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), the Institute of Environmental Sciences (IES), and various US Government agencies are...
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Shock certification of replacement subsystems and components in the presence of uncertainty
DOHNER,JEFFREY L.; LAUFFER,JAMES P. - 2008
In this paper a methodology for analytically estimating the response of replacement components in a system subjected to worst-case hostile shocks is presented. This methodology does not require the use of system testing but uses previously compiled shock data and inverse dynamic analysis to...
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A Reference-Dependent Regret Model for Deterministic Trade-off Studies
Kujawski, Edouard - 2009
Today's typical multi-criteria decision analysis is based on classical expected utility theory that assumes a mythical ''Rational Individual'' immune to psychological influences such as anticipated regret. It is therefore in conflict with rational individuals who trade-off some benefits and...
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