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This article provides a comparative analysis of pension plan allocations to private equity and to venture capital in the United States and in Canada. Although the assets of American funds in our data are worth 10 times those of Canadian funds, their investment in private equity is about 20 times...
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We consider the generic problem of performing sequential Bayesian inference in a state-space model with observation process y, state process x and fixed parameter theta. An idealized approach would be to apply the iterated batch importance sampling (IBIS) algorithm of Chopin (2002). This is a...
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The choice of the summary statistics in Bayesian inference and in particular in ABC algorithms is paramount to produce a valid outcome. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions on those statistics for the corresponding Bayes factor to be convergent, namely to asymptotically select the true...
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The purpose is to study the effect of a low-price guarantee (PG) on store price image and store patronage intention. Two kinds of low-price guarantee are studied, a price-matching guarantee (PMG) where the price difference is refunded and a price-beating guarantee (PBG) where a retailer offers...
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Un associé d'une société civile a consenti à ses enfants une donation-partage avec réserve d'usufruit portant sur ses parts. Les statuts de cette société stipulaient que le droit de vote appartenait à l'usufruitier pour les décisions ordinaires et extraordinaires, et précisaient que...
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La chaire Ville & Immobilier publie aujourd’hui une étude relative à l’impact du PTZ + sur la solvabilité des ménages. Cette étude a été réalisée dans le cadre des travaux de la Chaire, notamment du baromètre du pouvoir d’achat immobilier résidentiel. Elle montre que le...
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