The Hindsight Bias

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    Introduction to Psychology

    TPS 101: INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY TPS 101 serves as the beginning course in psychology; as such, it is broad in scope. The course will introduce students to the history of psychology, and current paradigms and theories. We will cover neuroscience, sensation, perception, memory, and language, stress and health psychology, personality and social psychology, intelligence, and developmental psychology. Because of time limitations, none of these topics can be covered in great depth. The reference textbooks

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    The Long-Run Performance of Initial Public Offerings

    American Finance Association The Long-Run Performance of Initial Public Offerings Author(s): Jay R. Ritter Source: The Journal of Finance, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Mar., 1991), pp. 3-27 Published by: Blackwell Publishing for the American Finance Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2328687 . Accessed: 15/03/2011 14:34 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's

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    Learning from M&a: the Impact of the Different Types of Distance

    RSM M.Sc. in Strategic Management Master thesis Learning from M&A: the impact of the different types of distance Dr. Yang Fan (Supervisor) Dr. Jatinder Sidhu (Co-reader) Alexandre Favre ID 402770 Completed the 14th of June 2014 1 Preface: The copyright of the Master thesis rests with the author. The author is responsible for its contents. RSM is only responsible for the educational coaching and cannot be held liable for the content 2 Contenu 1. Introduction .........

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    Kiki

    THE B L A C K SWAN The HIGHLY I mpact IM of the PROBABLE Nassim Nicholas Taleb U.S.A. $26.95 Canada $34.95 is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpre­ dictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9 / 1 1 . For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie

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    Japan Economy

    NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TWO DECADES OF JAPANESE MONETARY POLICY AND THE DEFLATION PROBLEM Takatoshi Ito Frederic S. Mishkin Working Paper 10878 http://www.nber.org/papers/w10878 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 October 2004 This paper is written for the NBER 15th East Asian Seminar on Economics, June 25-27, 2004. The authors are grateful to Takeshi Kudo and Emilia Simeonova for their excellent research assistance. We also thank our discussants

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    Conservatism

    Journal of Accounting and Economics 55 (2013) 66–90 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Journal of Accounting and Economics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jae Towards an understanding of the role of standard setters in standard setting$ Abigail Allen, Karthik Ramanna n Harvard Business School, USA a r t i c l e in f o abstract Article history: Received 15 September 2010 Received in revised form 24 May 2012 Accepted 25 May 2012 Available online

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    Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts

    Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts Peter A. Facione The late George Carlin worked “critical thinking” into one of his comedic monologue rants on the perils of trusting our lives and fortunes to the decision-making of people who were gullible, uninformed, and unreflective. Had he lived to experience the economic collapse of 2008 and 2009, he would have surely added more to his caustic but accurate assessments regarding how failing to anticipate the consequences of one’s decisions often

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    Ufo, a Case Study

    ISSN: 0730-5748 JOURNAL OF UFO STUDIES New Series, Vol. 6 1995/1996 CONTENTS ARTICLES Editorial ..................... ......................... ............................................................ Stuart Appelle Psychotherapy for the UFO Abduction Experience ..... ..... .......... ........ David A. Gotlib The Abduction Experience: A Critical Evaluation of Theory and Evidence ............... .. .............................. ........... ............ ...... ............... .......

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    Latin

    Lincoln High School IB History Internal Assessment Student Handbook Table of Contents What is the History IA? ­ ­ ­ Planning Your Historical Investigation ­ Examples of Types of Investigations ­ Examples of Research Questions ­ ­ Choice of Topic ­ ­ ­ ­ 20th Century ­ ­ ­ ­ History of the Americas ­ ­ Alternative ­ ­ ­ ­ The Written Account & Assessment Criteria A. Plan of the Investigation ­ ­ B. Summary of Evidence ­ ­ C. Evaluation of Sources ­ ­ D. Analysis ­ ­ ­ ­ E. Conclusion ­ ­ ­

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    Japenese Manufacturing

    Term paper  Topic: Feudal System Of Japanese Manufacturing.  Members:   ­Rittik Mondal  ­ Sachit Aggarwal  ­Harsh Faujdar  ­Rishi Gupta  ­ Prawal Pandey  ­Vineet Anand  ­Nishant chohla  ­Dharmendra Mahjani  ­Surya Prakash  ­Shubham Patel                                      Contents:     ● Main paper: Feudal System of Japanese Manufacturing)    ● Paper 1: Industrial subcontracting and structure in Japan: evolution and recent trend    ● Paper 2:The Evolution of Japanese Subcontracting 

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