Investigating Momentum on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange December 1 2010 Hendrik Snyman 14422425 A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Engineering (Management) Department of Industrial Engineering University of Stellenbosch An oil prospector had died and gone to heaven. At the gate, he is met by St Peter.‘Well, I checked you out and you meet all of the qualifications. But there’s one problem,’ He said. ‘We have some
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2014 Teun Roks (360676) Jessica Pfeiffer (416452) Florine Van Den Biggelaar (333587) Babette Oostveen (333036) [RESEARCH REPORT] Can the decoy effect influence consumers to make healthier decisions? Research Report 2014 Table of Contents Abstract ................................................................................................... 3 Introduction .................................................................................
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Management and Communication Systems Otto Wagner Platz 3, 1090 Vienna, Austria Postal address: PO Box 61, 1011 Vienna, Austria Phone: (+43-1) 404 20-2345 Fax: (+43-1) 404 20-2398 Internet: http:/ /www.oenb.at http:/ /www.fma.gv.at Paper: Salzer Demeter, 100% woodpulp paper, bleached without chlorine, acid-free, without optical whiteners DVR 0031577 Preface The ongoing development of contemporary risk management methods and the increased use of innovative financial products such as securitization
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TRADE POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER No.22 Threshold cointegration in the sugarethanol-oil price system in Brazil: evidence from nonlinear vector error correction models George Rapsomanikis and David Hallam1 Commodities and Trade Division Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations September 2006 1 The authors are Economist and Chief in the Trade Policy Service, Commodities and Trade Division. FAO Commodity and Trade Policy Research Working Papers are published by the Commodities
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Baggili & Rogers - Self-reported cyber crime: An analysis on the effects of anonymity and pre-employment integrity Copyright © 2009 International Journal of Cyber Criminology (IJCC) ISSN: 0974 – 2891 July - December 2009, Vol 3 (2): 550–565 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly
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Services at Bentley College for the data and the second author thanks Bentley College for a summer research grant. The usual disclaimer applies. Are TIPS the “Real” Deal?: A Conditional Assessment of their Role in a Nominal Portfolio Abstract This paper documents predictable time-variation in the real return beta of U.S. Treasury inflation protected securities (TIPS) and in the Sharpe ratios of both indexed and conventional bonds. The conditional mean and volatility of both bonds and their conditional
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CONSUMER BEHAVIOR TOWARDS THE NEW PACKAGING OF FMCG PRODUCTS Mitul Deliya Assistant Professor, S. K. College of Business Management, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan Email: deliya.mitul@gmail.com ABSTRACT The importance of packaging design as a vehicle for communication and branding is growing in competitive markets for packaged FMCG products. This research utilized a focus group methodology to understand consumer behavior toward such products. The challenge for researchers is
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some selected Jordanian commercial banks for the period 2005-2009. It is evaluatory in nature, drawing sources of information from secondary data. The financial performance of banks is studied on the basis of financial variables and ratios. In this paper an attempt was made to analyze the financial performance of seven selected Jordanian commercial banks using simple regression in order to estimate the impact of independent variable represented by; the bank size, asset management, and operational efficiency
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similar statistics for family firms around the world (Dreux, 1990; Martinez, 1994; Owens, 1994). Therefore, a better grasp of the unique characteristics of family firms is a basis for understanding a significant part of the world’s economy several papers have been written about the unique characteristics of family businesses and their performance compared to that of non-family businesses. Most research done in the field focused on corporate governance measures, family relationships, succession, and
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of the market do display a strange need for communication through cell phones and are often noted to spend more money on making calls than they do on food. In terms of Social factors, the market is still thriving for more. Customers are still willing to try something new and because of lack of loyalty, customers are always ready for a new operator, hoping that call rates will fall even more which is a threat. The almost exponential growth in the Telecoms sector in Bangladesh in the last 5-10 years
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