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Bactrian in Issyk‐Kushan Script: Additional Readings and Decipherments1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article presents additional readings of several inscriptions written in the Issyk‐Kushan script, building on the improved system of sound values recently proposed by Sims‐Williams (2025b). We propose that some further lines of Dašt‐i Nāwur inscription DN III and parts of several other inscriptions can now be read as Bactrian, add new ...
Jakob Halfmann +3 more
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The syntactic structure of predicatives : clues from the omission of the copula in child english [PDF]
, 2013 This paper explores the syntax of main clause predicatives from the perspective of trying to account for an asymmetry in copular constructions in certain languages.
Becker, Misha
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
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Copulas in finance and insurance [PDF]
Copulas provide a potential useful modeling tool to represent the dependence structure among variables and to generate joint distributions by combining given marginal distributions. Simulations play a relevant role in finance and insurance. They are used
Elisa M. Molanes, Rosario Romera
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Sexual cannibalism (SC), where one mating partner consumes the other in the context of mating, is especially prevalent among spiders. However, the evolution of SC in spiders is still not fully understood. We review key hypotheses for SC and explore how female‐initiated SC has driven the evolution of various male counter‐adaptations to mitigate its ...
Simona Kralj‐Fišer +3 more
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Dynamic financial tail risk networks: A backtesting-based conditional expected shortfall approach.
PLoS ONEThis paper develops a Factor-Copula methodology for constructing high-dimensional dynamic tail risk networks based on the conditional expected shortfall (CoES) in order to overcome the limitations of traditional quantile regression and copula models.
Donghao Zhang, Xiaodong Yan, Feng Shen
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Estimating value at risk and optimal hedge ratio in Latin markets: a copula-based GARCH approach [PDF]
In this paper we use a copula-based GARCH model to estimate conditional variances and covariances of the bivariate relationships between U.S. market with Brazilian, Argentinean and Mexican markets. To that we used daily prices of S&P500, Ibovespa, Merval
Marcelo Brutti Righi +1 more
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Managing Procurement Auction Failure: Bid Requirements or Reserve Prices?
The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines bid requirements, where the government may cancel a procurement contract unless two or more bids are received. Using a first‐price auction model with endogenous entry, we compare the bid requirement and reserve price mechanisms in terms of auction failure and procurement costs.
Jun Ma, Vadim Marmer, Pai Xu
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On the Distortion of a Copula and its Margins [PDF]
This article examines the notion of distortion of copulas, a natural extension of distortion within the univariate framework. We study three approaches to this extension: (1) distortion of the margins alone while keeping the original copula structure, (2)
Valdez, Emiliano A.
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Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A common assumption is that firms become more socially responsible over time. Indeed, numerous conceptual papers focus on the issue of describing the CSR states that firms advance through. Yet, related empirical research remains limited and the assumption of steady progression across CSR states remains untested.
Christopher Groening +1 more
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