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THE SUITABILITY OF CROSS-HEDGING POLYMERS WITH BRENT FUTURES CONTRACTS

Masitwe, April - 2011

This research report investigated the effectiveness of cross-hedging polymers with brent futures contracts for … this method, be stabilised to create predictable input costs for manufacturers. Global polymers from South East Asia … reduced.The results showed that correlations were inconsistent for all polymers. They varied from period to period and from …

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Challenges for Sustaining Leadership in Nanotechnology in the U.S.

Morse, Jeffrey - 2010

the NNI investment has met its intended goals and objectives, including U.S. leadership in fundamental research in nanotechnology and economic impact in the form of job creation and establishment of new industries. While the latter is difficult to assess directly since many nanotechnology...

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Regulation and Political Costs in the Oil and Gas Industry: An Investigation of Discretion in Reporting Earnings and Oil and Gas Reserves Estimates

Kurdi, Ammr - 2010

discretionary accruals (total and current discretionary accruals), and a measure of discretionary depreciation, depletion, and … earnings through increasing the annual depletion expense. Results suggest that both oil and gas refining and producing firms …, depletion, and amortization expense during periods of high oil prices. …

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Entropy Based Moment Selection in Generalized Method of Moments

Shin, Changmock - 2005

GMM provides a computationally convenient estimation method and the resulting estimator can be shown to be consistent and asymptotically normal under the fairly moderate regularity conditions. It is widely known that the information content in the population moment condition has impacts on the...

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Lean Six Sigma as a Source of Competitive Advantage

Cavallini,Alessandro Giorgio 1979- - 2008

Anecdotal data affirms that companies applying Lean Six Sigma in their operations not only deliver higher quality products and services, but also obtain superior financial results. The goal of this research was to empirically verify anecdotal data. The study proposed to analyze a group of...

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The Verification of Probabilistic Forecasts in Decision and Risk Analysis

Jose, Victor Richmond - 2009

Probability forecasts play an important role in many decision and risk analysis applications. Research and practice over the years have shown that the shift towards distributional forecasts provides a more accurate and appropriate means of capturing risk in models for these applications. This...

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Estimating input allocation for farm supply models

Gocht, Alexander - 2008

When building an economic model for supply analysis the aim is to model a decision makingprocess of one or more agents which fits the observed practice as good as possible. Hereby themodeller is often confronted with incomplete information about the production process; particularcrop specific...

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DISCERNING Intra-Metropolitan Patterns of Producer Service Establishment Location using Geographic Information Systems

Lindsay, Francis - 2005

services, and the entropy (or diversity) of services within postal code areas and how this measure correlates to the presence …

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The evaluation of internal and external entropy of agricultural enterprises

Rolínek, Ladislav; Doktorová, Milena - 2012

The level of internal and external entropy belongs to basic indicators of evaluation of successfulness of management …. Entropy represents measure of nonsystematicness enterprise, which can lead to decrease its productivity. The aim of the … article is to describe and evaluated measure of entropy of agricultural enterprises. …

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THE NATURE OF ENTROPY IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

MYKHAILOVSKA, Oksana - 2014

This report analyzes the relationship between thermodynamic and information entropy. It is shown that in the case of …

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