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“…and our study might therefore have been slightly underpowered”: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis of Hedging in English and Czech Medical Research Articles

open access: yes, 2017
Attenuating devices are frequently employed in both spoken and written language to weaken the illocutionary force of utterances as well as their directness. In this way, they are associated with expressing linguistic politeness.
Jana Kozubíková Šandová
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Deep Learning Framework for Forecasting Medium‐Term Covariance in Multiasset Portfolios

open access: yesJournal of Forecasting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Forecasting the covariance matrix of asset returns is central to portfolio construction, risk management, and asset pricing. However, most existing models struggle at medium‐term horizons, several weeks to months, where shifting market regimes and slower dynamics prevail.
Pedro Reis, Ana Paula Serra, João Gama
wiley   +1 more source

The Dollar's Double Life: Not All Dollar Appreciations Are Born Equal for the Cross‐Currency Basis

open access: yesJournal of Futures Markets, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper revisits the relationship between the US dollar and cross‐currency basis (XCB) swap spreads. We show that the strength and direction of this relationship depend on the prevailing regime of the broad dollar. The evidence suggests that the well‐documented “dollar appreciates, basis widens” result holds primarily when the dollar is in ...
Daniel Felix Ahelegbey   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Important Is Pay and What Are the Effects (Positive and Negative) of Pay for Performance?: Evaluating Claims and Evidence

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Compensation plays a pivotal role in shaping employee behavior, motivation, and well‐being. Although extant research has explored various dimensions of compensation, questions about how important pay is to employees and concerns (on the part of employers and/or employees) about the unintended negative (in addition to intended positive ...
Barry Gerhart, Ji Hyun Kim, Shan He
wiley   +1 more source

HEDGING WHOLESALE BEEF CUTS [PDF]

open access: yes
Live cattle futures markets do not offer much opportunity for effective hedging of wholesale beef cuts. If a Choice-to-Select price spread futures contract were introduced this would enhance hedging effectiveness although likely not enough to encourage ...
Schroeder, Ted C., Yang, Xiaolou
core   +1 more source

Sustainability Performance and Corporate Risk: Evidence From the Tourism Industry

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate the impact of sustainability performance (Refinitiv Environmental, Social, and Governance [ESG] scores) on corporate risk (CR). We apply stakeholder theory and the resource‐based view to an international sample of 247 tourism firms from 2002 to 2018.
Omneya Abdelsalam   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hedges in interpreted and non-interpreted English: A cross-modal, corpus-based study

open access: yesInterpreting and Society
In this study, we adopt a monolingual, comparable, and cross-modal approach to investigate the use of hedges in interpreted and non-interpreted English speeches.
Rongbo Fu, Jiaqi Tan
doaj   +1 more source

Hedging Break-Even Biodiesel Production Costs Using Soybean Oil Futures [PDF]

open access: yes
The effectiveness of hedging volatile input prices for biodiesel producers is examined over one- to eight-week time horizons. Results reveal that hedging break-even soybean costs with soybean oil futures offers significant reductions in input price risk.
Graf, Johannes   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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