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MathematicsRisk is often the most concerning factor in financial transactions. Option Greeks provide valuable insights into the risks inherent in option trading and serve as tools for risk mitigation.
Stefan Zecevic, Mariano Rodrigo
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Monte Carlo evaluation of sensitivities in computational finance [PDF]
, 2007 In computational finance, Monte Carlo simulation is used to compute the correct prices for financial options. More important, however, is the ability to compute the so-called "Greeks'', the first and second order derivatives of the prices with respect to
Giles, M. B.
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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The Ancient Greeks in the Thought of Arvydas Šliogeris: The Ambiguity of Reception
Literatūra (Vilnius)This article examines Šliogeris’ engagement with the Ancient Greeks, focusing on the mature phase of his philosophy, where the concepts of Nihil and Presence are fully articulated.
Gintarė Škėmaitė
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, 1958 The importance of the Greeks lies in the fact that they sketched out many, although of course not all, of the broad foundations upon which Western Civilization rests.
Bloom, Robert L. +6 more
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The Failure of the Aetolian Deditio as a Didactic Cultural Clash in the Histories of Polybius (20.9-10) [PDF]
, 2014 This paper examines the Aetolian deditio in fidem of 191 as described by Polybius 20.9-10. Erich Gruen influentially interpreted Polybius’ description as inconsistent and exaggerated, on the grounds that Greeks and Romans from the 3rd and 2nd centuries ...
Moreno Leoni, Álvaro Matías
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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The Beliefs, Myths, and Reality Surrounding the Word Hema (Blood) from Homer to the Present
Anemia, 2010 All ancient nations hinged their beliefs about hema (blood) on their religious dogmas as related to mythology or the origins of religion. The Hellenes (Greeks) especially have always known hema as the well-known red fluid of the human body.
John Meletis, Kostas Konstantopoulos
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Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2005 An excessively fundamentalist conception of ethnic identity is undoubtedly an obstacle to an understanding of the relations among the communities settled in southern France in Roman times.
Philippe Boissinot
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Greek light, Greek photography
Byzantine and Modern Greek StudiesThis article investigates indigenous light as an element in the conceptualization of photography as a ‘Greek’ art from the mid-nineteenth to the first decades of the twentieth century. Key moments linking photography, writing through light, with the light of Greece will be discussed: from the mid-nineteenth-century debate about the alleged ‘Greek ...
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