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Product Design to Enhance Consumer Liking of Cull Ewe Meat
Foods, 2021 The global sheepmeat industry aspires to increase consumer liking for cull ewe meat and thereby increase its value; dry ageing application can increase the consumer appeal of this meat. In order to develop novel consumer-liked dry aged sheepmeat products,
Melindee Hastie +7 more
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The Irreversibility Premium [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Abstract When investment is irreversible, theory suggests that firms will be “reluctant to invest.” This reluctance creates a wedge between the discount rate guiding investment decisions and the standard Jorgensonian user cost (adjusted for risk). We use the intertemporal tradeoff between benefits and costs of changing the capital stock to estimate ...
Robert S. Chirinko, Huntley Schaller
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Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global OpenBackground:. Medical tourism for cosmetic surgery is expanding due to demand for high-quality, safe, and affordable procedures. This study built on prior research by analyzing a larger cohort of plastic surgery patients in Colombia, a leading destination
Alex Campbell, MD +3 more
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Information Systems Journal, 2019 Fostering the conversion of free users to premium subscribers and retaining those premium users are critical objectives for freemium service providers.
Matti Mäntymäki, A. Islam, I. Benbasat
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Premium Subsidies, the Mandate, and Medicaid Expansion: Coverage Effects of the Affordable Care Act
Journal of Health Economics, 2016 Using premium subsidies for private coverage, an individual mandate, and Medicaid expansion, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has increased insurance coverage.
Molly Frean, J. Gruber, B. Sommers
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Barekeng, 2022 In creating complex mortality tables, some insurance companies do not have enough data to build credible tables based on their experiences. Therefore, insurance companies usually carry out their analysis by comparing the company's actual mortality rate ...
Alvira Adya Imani, Yulial Hikmah
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Fair trade in insurance industry: Premium determination of Taiwan automobile insurance [PDF]
, 2007 This paper examines premium determination of voluntary automobile insurance policy and risk classification under a heavily regulated rating system in Taiwan. We investigate the distribution of actual premium and pure premium, based on unique data to test
Li, Chu-Shiu +3 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.We introduce a nucleic acid nanoparticle (NANP) platform designed to be rrecognized by the human innate immune system in a regulated manner. By changing chemical composition while maintaining constant architectural parameters, we identify key determinants of immunorecognition enabling the rational design of NANPs with tunable immune activation profiles
Martin Panigaj +21 more
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The diminishing liquidity premium [PDF]
, 2008 Previous evidence suggests that less liquid stocks entail higher average returns. Using NYSE data, we present evidence that both the sensitivity of returns to liquidity and liquidity premia have significantly declined over the past four decades to levels
Ben-Rephael, Azi, Kadan, Ohad, Wohl, Avi
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The Collateralizability Premium [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 Abstract A common prediction of macroeconomic models of credit market frictions is that the tightness of financial constraints is countercyclical. Theory suggests a negative collateralizability premium; that is, capital that can be used as collateral to relax financial constraints insures against aggregate shocks and commands a lower ...
Ai, Hengjie +3 more
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