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PDF Ebook Option Trading and Oil Futures Markets

The establishment, of a very successTu1 crude oil futures market by the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) has introduced a new and important factor into the process of oil price formation. Trading in crude oil Tutures has been expanding ver ...

Story - antoq - 10/18/2010 - 13:46 - 155 comments - 0 attachments

Ebook Do Solicitations Matter in Bank Credit Ratings? Results from a Study of 72 Countries

Unsolicited bank credit ratings assigned to banks by Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (NRSROs), such as Standard and Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P’s) and Moody’s Investor Service (Moody’s), are controversial. Credit ratings th ...

Story - wulan - 08/01/2009 - 04:40 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

PDF Ebook Natural and Synthetic Chemicals in the Diet

Current regulatory policy to reduce human cancer risks is based on the idea that chemicals which induce tumors in rodent cancer bioassays are potential human carcinogens. The chemicals selected for testing in rodents, however, are primarily synth ...

Story - antoq - 10/05/2011 - 06:41 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Ebook Oil Prices, Exchange Rates and Emerging Stock Markets

The recent surge in oil prices over the past eight years has generated a lot of interest in the relationship between oil prices, financial markets and the economy (see, for example, Blanchard and Gali, 2007, and Herrera and Pesavento, 2009). Crude ...

Story - puput - 06/30/2011 - 07:02 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Ebook Practical approach to estimating cost of capital

The following paper provides a comprehensive overview of the major debates over estimating the inputs for cost of capital used in the enterprise valuation and corporate valuation. Hundreds of research academics and practitioners over the recent decade ...

Story - puput - 05/25/2011 - 04:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Ebook Does the Credit Default Swap Market Anticipate or React to Credit Rating Agency Announcements?

Over time, finance developed to become one of the cornerstones of modern society. The global nature of modern finance, and in particular credit markets , makes the task of distinguishing between good and bad borrowers a difficult one. With the aim ...

Story - puput - 05/21/2011 - 03:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Ebook Stochastic Evolutionary Game Dynamics: Foundations, Deterministic Approximation, and Equilibrium Selection

Evolutionary game theory studies the behavior of large populations of agents who repeatedly engage in anonymous strategic interactions that is, interactions in which each agent’s outcome depends not only on his own choice, but also on the distribution ...

Story - puput - 05/17/2011 - 02:23 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Ebook Exotic Option Pricing in Stochastic Volatility Levy Models and with Fractional Brownian Motion

Development in derivative markets has been dramatical in the last years. The preferences of investors suffered a change. Driven by fear, they were seeking more downside protection since the stock market crashes , especially in the new economy, ...

Story - puput - 03/29/2011 - 04:14 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Ebook Tropical Cyclone Forecast Verification: Three Approaches to the Assessment of the ECMWF Model

Tropical cyclones (TC) are amongst the most impressive weather systems of Earth’s atmosphere, not only as extraordinary natural phenomenon but also in terms of damage they can cause. In the USA, in the region of the Caribbean Sea as well as in man ...

Story - puput - 03/31/2011 - 06:59 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Ebook Learning and Validation of Human Control Strategies

Over the past two decades, rapid advances in computer performance have not been matched with similar advances in the development of intelligent robots and systems. Although humans are quite adept at mastering complex and dynamic skills, we are far les ...

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Ebook Managerial Risk Attitudes and Firm Performance in Ghanaian Manufacturing: an Empirical Analysis Based on Experimental Data

Submitted by wulan on Tue, 04/27/2010 - 07:26

This paper uses data from experiments measuring risk attitudes of Ghanaian manufacturing firm managers to investigate the extent to which more risk averse managers who face high risks attempt to smooth profits at the expense of lower average profits. Firms can smooth profits by, for example, making conservative production or input choices, diversifying economic activities, or investing in flexible inputs and types of capital. These are ways for firms to attempt to protect themselves from adverse profit shocks before they occur. The benefits to risk-averse producers in terms of lower profit variance do not come without opportunity costs, however. As is well known from a mean-variance approach, since expected profits typically must be sacrificed for lower risk, profit smoothing will be costly.

Following from insights in the agricultural household literature, profit smoothing will be more likely to occur when firms anticipate being unable to borrow or insure. Since credit and insurance markets in Africa tend to be weak, one can expect that profit smoothing may be particularly prevalent in African firms. This implies that the costs of risks will be high in Africa and that African firms present interesting cases to study these mechanisms.

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PDF Ebook Nutrition & Prostate Cancer

Submitted by antoq on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 08:37

Scientific evidence suggests that differences in diet and lifestyle may account in large part for the variability of prostate cancer rates in different countries. Good nutrition may reduce the incidence of prostate cancer and help reduce the risk of prostate cancer progression. There are many studies currently being conducted to help further understand how diet and prostate cancer are related.

We do know, however, that improved nutrition reduces risk of heart disease, diabetes, and obesity, and usually improves overall quality of life. It is estimated that one-third of cancer deaths in the U.S. can be attributed to diet in adulthood, including diet’s effect on obesity. Additionally, a healthy diet helps to increase energy levels, facilitate recovery, and enhance the immune system.

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Ebook Detecting Extreme Risk Spillover Between Financial Markets

Submitted by puput on Mon, 04/11/2011 - 06:02

Controlling and monitoring financial risk has been receiving more and more attention from business practitioners, decision makers and academic researchers. When monitoring financial risk, the probability of a large adverse market movement is always of great practical concern (e.g., Bollerslev 2001). Large market movements can occur due to inherent market uncertainty, dramatic policy changes, surprising shocks, speculative attacks, financial contagion, and etc.

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