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Optimal Variance Forecasting in a Trading Context
ABSTRACT In financial trading, the economic value of return and variance forecasts arises from three key components: an investor's risk preference, the quality of return predictions, and the accuracy of risk estimates. This study isolates the third component—risk knowledge—and demonstrates that its contribution is a non‐linear function of realized and ...
Nick Taylor
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Threshold detection by fitting segmented regression models in Microsoft Excel. [PDF]
Hopper AJ, Brown AM.
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ABSTRACT Health and well‐being in the family context can be affected by care giving arrangements. Following parental care and daycare, grandparents are the third most important care givers for children in many Western societies. Despite the relevance of grandparental care, there is little evidence on the causal effects of this care mode on the next ...
Mara Barschkett +2 more
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Solubility Enhancement of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients through Liquid Hydrotrope Addition: A Thermodynamic Analysis. [PDF]
Nasrallah S, Minceva M.
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ABSTRACT Primary medical care has traditionally been provided by small organisations. Recent policy developments in many countries have encouraged larger practices in the hope of benefiting from increasing returns to scale, but there is little research evidence to support this.
Tianchang Zhao +2 more
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The CYP71A, NIT, AMI, and IAMH gene families are dispensable for indole-3-acetaldoxime-mediated auxin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis. [PDF]
Fenech M +12 more
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Amendment Thresholds and Voting Rules in Debt Contracts
ABSTRACT Most loan contracts in the United States contain a provision for lender voting rules. We study the optimal voting rule that allows lenders to waive a covenant violation. When lenders have heterogeneous preferences, lenient voting rules increase the probability of waivers that allow inefficient investments.
JUDSON CASKEY +2 more
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Market Insurance and Risk Pooling in U.S. Crop Insurance
ABSTRACT A common assumption is that multiple‐peril crop insurance markets suffer from market failures, thus justifying government intervention in the form of premium subsidies, operating allowances, and reinsurance agreements. One prominent rationale for intervention involves geographic correlation in agricultural production which leads to systemic ...
Fan Fan +3 more
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Comprehensive serotyping of Mannheimia haemolytica by a PCR system using the diversity of capsule biosynthesis genes. [PDF]
Iguchi A +7 more
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Nonclassical measurement error in farmland markets with implications for Ricardian analysis
Abstract Nonclassical measurement error threatens the validity of empirical economic models. We examine the extent to which land value measures that are commonly used in studies of the US farmland market are subject to nonclassical measurement error. We consider differences in county‐level land values from two popular data sources: (1) self‐reported ...
Daniel P. Bigelow, Margaret Jodlowski
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