definition of conceptual and empirical research

Statistical Methods of Valuation and Risk Assessment: Empirical Analysis of Equity Markets and Hedge Fund Strategies

Statistical Methods of Valuation and Risk Assessment: Empirical Analysis of Equity Markets and Hedge Fund Strategies

... concept of concordance and discordance which informally says that a pair of random variables are concordant if large values of one tend to be associated with large values of the other and small ... estimates the standard error of the parameter estimate by the empirical standard deviation of the B replications. The result is called the bootstrap estimate of standard error and is evaluated as follows, () ... V., and N. Naik (2000), Generalised Style Analysis of Hedge Funds, Journal of Asset Management, 1, 1, 93-109. Agarwal V., and N. Naik (2000b), On Benchmarking of Hedge Funds with Passive and Option-based...

Ngày tải lên: 16/04/2013, 20:00

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Tài liệu Environmental impacts of petroleum production: Fate of inorganic and organic chemicals in produced water from the Osage-Skiatook Petroleum Environmental Research sites, Osage County, Oklahoma doc

Tài liệu Environmental impacts of petroleum production: Fate of inorganic and organic chemicals in produced water from the Osage-Skiatook Petroleum Environmental Research sites, Osage County, Oklahoma doc

... settings of the Lester and Branstetter leases resemble that of much of the major southern mid-continent oil- and gas-producing area of the U.S. The leases are also typical of many depleted and aging ... concentrations of Mg, Sr, and NH 4 , but low SO 4 and H 2 S. With the exception of Fe and Mn, the concentrations of trace metals are low. Eventually, the bulk of inorganic salts and some dissolved ... 1.5 and 1.0 hectare of land at the OSPER ‘A’ and ‘B’ sites, respectively. The impacts include salt scarring, soil salinization and oil contamination, and brine and petroleum contamination of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

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Tài liệu An Empirical Decomposition of Risk and Liquidity in Nominal and Inflation- Indexed Government Bonds pptx

Tài liệu An Empirical Decomposition of Risk and Liquidity in Nominal and Inflation- Indexed Government Bonds pptx

... period of inflat ion- indexed bond issuance, when the amount of bonds outstanding wa s relatively lo w and perhaps only a small number of sophisticated in vestors h ad a good understanding of the ... bonds in the US as the nom- inal amount of TIPS outstanding relative to U S government TIPS, notes and bonds outstanding . 9 The face value of TIPS outstanding available in the data is the original face ... structure of outstanding go v ernment debt as a proxy for supply shoc ks, and find that it predicts bond returns. In the context of real versus nominal bonds, it seems plausible that the preference of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 02:20

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "The grapho-phonological system of written French: Statistical analysis and empirical validation" pdf

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "The grapho-phonological system of written French: Statistical analysis and empirical validation" pdf

... features of the processing system and thus provide an empirical validation of the approach. Most interestingly, the sensitivity of human processing to the degree of regularity and frequency of ... times and error rates were then computed by subjects and by items in both the immediate naming and the delayed naming task. By-subjects and by-items (Ft and F2, respectively) analyses of variance ... grapheme detectors as a function of frequency of occurrence and differences in the strength of the connections between graphemes and phonemes as a function of association probability would...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20

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Government Incentivisation of Higher Education-Industry Research Partnerships in South Africa. An Audit of THRIP and the Innovation Fund pptx

Government Incentivisation of Higher Education-Industry Research Partnerships in South Africa. An Audit of THRIP and the Innovation Fund pptx

... choice of projects and the direction of research. ’ This is a striking example of how collaboration can ensure that the gap between the worlds of education and work can be bridged in the pursuit of ... with regards to research and development and financially.’ Figure 4: Industry recipients perspectives of the nature of the relationship between higher education and industry One of the respondents ... overview of the projects, the names of relevant contact people and a sense of the missions, values and key goals of the programmes. Introductory interview : In order to develop a solid understanding...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 05:22

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Export Performance Measurement: An Evaluation of the Empirical Research in the Literature pdf

Export Performance Measurement: An Evaluation of the Empirical Research in the Literature pdf

... the export performance of the firm. However, in spite of these research efforts, there is a lack of synthesis and agreement in the conceptualization and operationalization of the construct. This ... Measurement: An Evaluation of the Empirical Research in the Literature 17 Sixth, although the design and implementation of longitudinal research is inevitably time-consuming and logisti- cally difficult, ... appropriate way of data gathering when analytical (instead of statistical) generalization is set as the primary goal of the empirical research (Matthyssens and Pauwels 1996). In terms of time frame,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

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GENETIC MANIPULATION OF DNA AND PROTEIN – EXAMPLES FROM CURRENT RESEARCH pptx

GENETIC MANIPULATION OF DNA AND PROTEIN – EXAMPLES FROM CURRENT RESEARCH pptx

... 2-hybrid based selection of random mutations (described below), and biochemical characterizations of the mutant forms of the Tus protein, many aspects of the mechanism of replication fork arrest ... interaction between Net1 and Sir2 on one hand and between Net1 and Fob1 on the other, and loads Sir2 near the Ter sites. This process, as noted above, causes silencing of rDNA and prevents unwanted ... the DnaB helicase and the L1 loop of Tus (Fig.1C and Fig.2). Genetic Manipulation of DNA and Protein – Examples from Current Research 24 seen. The side-chain carboxyl of D344 lies on the...

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Research " Essays on the Equilibrium Valuation of IPOs and Bonds " pdf

Research " Essays on the Equilibrium Valuation of IPOs and Bonds " pdf

... Wen B.S.(University of Science and Technology of China) 1987 Ph.D. (The University of Texas at Austin) 1993 A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Business ... a pioneer of the World Wide Web browser, threatened to topple the domination of Microsoft in the software market for personal computers and network computers. Amazon.com, the pioneer of online ... Microsoft started to embrace the internet; Barnes and Noble had to learn online book-selling; and Merrill-Lynch has to walk a …ne line between going online and keeping the privilege of its army of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

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Women’s Employment and Its Relation to Children’s Health and Schooling in Developing Countries: Conceptual Links, Empirical Evidence, and Policies pptx

Women’s Employment and Its Relation to Children’s Health and Schooling in Developing Countries: Conceptual Links, Empirical Evidence, and Policies pptx

... agriculture and into expanding manufacturing, service, and commerce sectors. These and concomitant changes in the living situations of women and families throughout the globe—including urbanization and ... similarly indicate that in times of severe economic downturn the time burden of market and domestic work of women and girls rises relative to that of men and boys, presumably reducing girls’ ... families, and women’s employment Research and policy on the relation of women’s employment to child health and schooling must address several important long term trends in the family and work...

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