Assessing Central Bank credibility during the ERM crises: comparing option and spot market-based forecasts [PDF]
Financial markets embed expectations of central bank policy into asset prices. This paper compares two approaches that extract a probability density of market beliefs. The first is a simulatedmoments estimator for option volatilities described in Mizrach
Haas, Markus, Mizrach, Bruce
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Health Care System Efficiency Analysis Of G12 Countries
Data Envelopment analysis of the health care delivery system of G12 nations is presented here. Japan and Spain scored the highest and the US, the lowest level of relative efficiencies. Health care outputs are life expectancy and infant mortality. Inputs are per capita health care expenditure; population adjusted physicians, hospital beds, and MRI; and ...
Sam Mirmirani, Matthias Lippmann
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Islamic Finance and Herding Behavior Theory: A Sectoral Analysis for Gulf Islamic Stock Market
This study examines herding behavior in four sectors of the Gulf Islamic stock markets. Based on the methodology of Chiang and Zheng (2010), results showed evidence of herding among investors in major sectors for the Gulf Cooperation Council (hereinafter
Imed Medhioub, Mustapha Chaffai
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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a serious global health issue with more than 250 million chronic carriers. It causes liver diseases such as chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
Binfan Chen+8 more
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Mean–variance relationship and uncertainty [PDF]
This study investigates the impact of uncertainty on the mean-variance relationship. We find that the stock market's expected excess return is positively related to the market's conditional variances and implied variance during low uncertainty periods ...
Jun Sik Kim
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Thrombin Protease-activated Receptor-1 Signals through Gq- and G13-initiated MAPK Cascades Regulating c-Jun Expression to Induce Cell Transformation [PDF]
Although the ability of G protein-coupled receptors to stimulate normal and aberrant cell growth has been intensely investigated, the precise nature of the molecular mechanisms underlying their transforming potential are still not fully understood.
Gutkind, J. Silvio+4 more
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From Subprime and Eurozone Crisis with Full Speed into the Next Financial Crisis
This paper offers an analysis of the road from subprime and eurozone crisis to the elements of a new systemic crisis. Our aim is to research common issues that accompany each of these crises and to explore elements that hint that the financial systems ...
Strašek Sebastjan
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The choice of external financing source: The role of company size and stock liquidity
This paper aims to answer whether firms of different sizes and stock liquidities differ in the choice of external sources of financing in companies listed in CEE countries. To this end the net debt issuance is regressed on the financial deficit.
Stereńczak Szymon, Kubiak Jarosław
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The Expression and Roles of Nde1 and Ndel1 in the Adult Mammalian Central Nervous System [PDF]
Open Access funded by Wellcome Trust Under a Creative Commons license Acknowledgments We thank Prof Angelo Sementilli, Department of Pathology, Universidade Metropolitana de Santos, SP, Brazil, for the human sample collection.
Collinson, J. M.+9 more
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Whole Genomic Analysis of Human G12P[6] and G12P[8] Rotavirus Strains that Have Emerged in Myanmar. [PDF]
G12 rotaviruses are emerging rotavirus strains causing severe diarrhea in infants and young children worldwide. However, the whole genomes of only a few G12 strains have been fully sequenced and analyzed. In this study, we sequenced and characterized the
Tomihiko Ide+21 more
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