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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar +2 more
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A high‐fat diet with vitamin D and propylthiouracil produces a pro‐atherogenic phenotype in rats
Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.Male Sprague–Dawley rats received a cholesterol‐rich high‐fat diet supplemented with vitamin D and propylthiouracil for 11 weeks. The model induced dyslipidemia (increased total cholesterol/low‐density lipoprotein, decreased triglycerides), inflammation (increased interleukin‐6 and serum amyloid A), hypercalcemia, and reduced circulating endothelial ...
Angélique Lewies +3 more
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Hedging versus not hedging: strategies for managing foreign exchange transaction exposure [PDF]
This paper compares a number of strategies for managing foreign exchange exposures. The strategies are never hedging, hedging every exposure using a forward exchange contract, and hedging on selective occasions using a forward exchange contract.
Scott McCarthy
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Despite documented ecomorphological shifts toward an herbivorous diet in several coelurosaurian lineages, the evolutionary tempo and mode of these changes remain poorly understood, hampered by sparse cranial materials for early representatives of major clades. This is particularly true for Therizinosauria, with representative crania best known
William J. Freimuth, Lindsay E. Zanno
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Hedging Effectiveness under Conditions of Asymmetry [PDF]
We examine whether hedging effectiveness is affected by asymmetry in the return distribution by applying tail specific metrics to compare the hedging effectiveness of short and long hedgers using crude oil futures contracts.
Jim Hanly, John Cotter
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Kesiapan Penerapan Hedging Syariah pada Perbankan Indonesia
Al-tijary, 2019 sharia hedging/ hedging transactions based on DSN Fatwa No. 96 by using sharia commodity instruments is a new thing in Indonesia, so that more in-depth studies are needed to analyze the readiness of Islamic banks in implementing sharia hedging / hedging ...
Yunisa Fitriana
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Comparing conditional hedging strategies. [PDF]
The traditional approach to discriminate amongst two competing hedging strategies is to compare the sample portfolio return variance implied by each strategy. This simple approach suffers from two drawbacks.
de Ville, e Goyet, C
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Muscle architecture is a major determinant of muscle performance and, in mammalian lineages, has been correlated with both feeding ecology and locomotor behaviors. Over the past decade, contrast‐enhanced micro‐CT (DiceCT) has emerged as an alternative to traditional dissection‐based measurement.
Aleksandra Ratkiewicz +5 more
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A Robust Approach to Hedging and Pricing in Imperfect Markets
Risks, 2017 This paper proposes a model-free approach to hedging and pricing in the presence of market imperfections such as market incompleteness and frictions.
Hirbod Assa, Nikolay Gospodinov
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, 2011 Most methods for decision-theoretic online learning are based on the Hedge algorithm, which takes a parameter called the learning rate. In most previous analyses the learning rate was carefully tuned to obtain optimal worst-case performance, leading to suboptimal performance on easy instances, for example when there exists an action that is ...
Tim van Erven +3 more
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