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This dissertation investigates the latent but critical effects of risk attitude oncompetitive success in construction applying an evolutionary approach. The approachconsiders contractors as individual entities competing with each other for common jobopportunities, and competition as an...
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This dissertation, which consists of three essays, studies online auctions boththeoretically and empirically.The first essay studies a special online auction format used by eBay, “Buy-It-Now” (BIN) auctions, in which bidders are allowed to buy the item at a fixed BINprice set by the seller...
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Agri-environmental programs in Japan have generally been promoted through the provision of fixedpayments for certain environment-friendly farming and management practices. However, the auctioning of agrienvironmentalcontracts is a noteworthy alternative for the furtherance of such programs....
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The purpose of this work is to empirically assess the validity of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) in terms of … how can it model an equity’s return. The goal of this work is not to challenge the theory behind CAPM, nor compare it to … than testing a specific hypothesis, my goal is to let the data speak for itself.The main difficulty with assessing CAPM is …
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- CAPM and the prevailing High Frequency Trading (HFT) method of stocks trading and to explain the relationship between them … and Wang's paper (The Conditional CAPM and the cross-section of expected return, 1996) to explain the capability of CAPM …
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(whether routine or not) may amount to double-counting. The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), which is the generally … on its riskiness) relative to the market as a whole. Indeed, CAPM may actually add on an implicit premium in that it …
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-variance efficient in the sense of classical CAPM. We show that, depending on the noise traders' behavior, the performance of efficient …
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determining market clearing prices is calculated explicitly. The classical capital market line result of CAPM theory is extended …
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The thesis consists of two essays: "The CAPM -- A General Equilibrium Foundation" and "The Foreign Exchange Rate in … Financial Markets".The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is one of the most successful models for portfolio selection. The … advantages are the simple risk measure and the quite applicable properties of CAPM-equilibria: The Mutual Fund Theorem, the Beta …
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This thesis examines the links between economic time-series innovations and statisticalrisk factors in the UK stock market using principal components analysis (PCA) and thegeneral-to-specific (Gets) approach to econometric modelling.A multi-factor risk structure for the UK stock market is...
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