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Hedge Fund Manager Skill and Style-Shifting [PDF]
Using a novel style identification procedure, we show that style-shifting is a dynamic strategy commonly used by hedge fund managers. Three quarters of hedge funds shifted their investment styles at least once over the period from January 1994 to December 2013.
George J. Jiang +2 more
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This study examines the stylistic use of ‘creaky voice’ in a single speaker: the American actress Scarlett Johansson. Recently, there has been a marked increase in both media and academic interest in creaky voice, with work by Yuasa (2010) and Wolk et al.
Francesca Shaw, Victoria Crocker
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Asymmetric Capital Tax Competition with Profit Shifting [PDF]
tax competition, asymmetric countries, profit shifting, multinational enterprises., F23, H25, H32.,
Stöwhase, Sven, Sven Stöwhase
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Pitch Change in Dog-Directed Speech
Humans cannot help changing their speech in different situations. This kind of ‘intraspeaker variation’ happens every day when news-reporters turn from talking to their colleagues to talking to the camera, or when people suddenly start speaking in a ...
Christy C. Ringrose
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Pulling Out All the Stops: Referee Design and Phonetic Correlates of Gay Men’s English
Studies of intraspeaker variation and the linguistic indexing of sexual identity have formed an important part of recent research in variationist sociolinguistics.
Victoria Dickson, Yorath Turner
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“My Vocal Cords are Made of Tweed”: Style-Shifting as Speaker Design
Intraspeaker variation is evaluated in terms of speaker design in a number of studies (Coupland 1985, Schilling-Estes 1998, Podesva 2008). This study explores possible motives for variation from a speaker design perspective through the analysis of three ...
Melissa Geere +2 more
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This study examines style-shifting in the case of Paul Banks, lead singer of the indie rock band Interpol, who spent a substantial amount of time during his adolescence in Spain and Mexico and therefore has access to their corresponding dialects.
Mario Magued Mina, Jasmina Kerla
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Shifting of Batik Clothing Style as Response to Fashion Trends in Indonesia
Fashion style refers to the way of wearing certain categories of clothing related to the concept of taste that refers to a person’s preferences or tendencies towards a particular style.
Tyar Ratuannisa +3 more
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An Intraspeaker Variation Study of Scottish English /r/ Pharyngealisation
Pharyngealisation— the retraction of the tongue towards the pharynx— of prepausal and preconsonantal /r/ has been recognised as an emergent strategy of derhoticisation in Scotland’s Central Belt (Stuart-Smith 2007).
Ruaridh Purse, Euan McGill
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Perceived quality of multimedia educational content: A cognitive style approach [PDF]
This is the post-print version of the Article. The oficial published version can be accessed from the link below - Copyright, 2006 SpringerCognitive styles influence the way how humans process information, with previous research demonstrating that they ...
Ghinea, G +3 more
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