Increasing Commerce Competitiveness: Case Study On Solving Issues In The Fruit Supply Chain In The Dominican Republic, Which Limit Exports, And Self-Reliance, 2017 Utah State University
Increasing Commerce Competitiveness: Case Study On Solving Issues In The Fruit Supply Chain In The Dominican Republic, Which Limit Exports, And Self-Reliance, Maria G. Mera Rivas
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
Agriculture was the main economic pillar of the Dominican Republic from its origins. Government decisions during the 80s and 90s resulted in high imports of food products, migration of rural workers to the urban areas, loss of arable land, and disinterest from a younger generation to continue food production. This case study explains the findings from research conducted in the Dominican Republic and Georgia, USA between 2014 and 2017. The researcher interviewed major players in the fruit sector in both areas, used data from the cacao sector to analyze exports behavior, and applied Porter’s Diamond of National Advantage to the …
Implementing The Heston Option Pricing Model In Object-Oriented Cython, 2017 Utah State University
Implementing The Heston Option Pricing Model In Object-Oriented Cython, Brandon Hardin
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
The 1973 Black-Scholes model, a revolutionary option pricing formula whose price is 'relatively close to observed prices, makes an assumption that the volatility is constant and thus, deterministic. This causes some inefficiencies and patterns in the pricing of options due to the model providing evidence of the volatility smile' of the volatility. Many scholars have suggested that the volatility should be modelled by a stochastic process and the (1993) Heston Model is one of many proposed solutions to remedy this problem. The Heston Model allows for the 'smile' by defining the volatility as a stochastic process. This thesis considers a …
An Integrative Model Of Managing Software Security During Information Systems Development, 2017 Northern Kentucky University
An Integrative Model Of Managing Software Security During Information Systems Development, Vijay Raghavan, Xiaoni Zhang
Journal of International Technology and Information Management
This study investigates the critical relationship between organizational system development policies, procedures and processes and the resulting security quality of the systems developed. We draw from a general software quality model to provide a theoretical foundation for testing this relationship. We used paper-based survey as well as online surveys to collect data from software developers and project managers. Our results revealed a significant relationship between management support and security policies and development process control. We also found significant relationships between development-process control and security quality, attitude and security quality, and the interaction between value congruence and commitment to provide security …
The Impacts Of Interbank Connections: Evidence From Mergers And Acquisitions, 2017 California State University, Monterey Bay
The Impacts Of Interbank Connections: Evidence From Mergers And Acquisitions, Christina Zhang
College of Business Faculty Publications and Presentations
The paper identifies the difference between connected and unconnected deals and examines the impact of the interbank connections among M&A deals. Deals with connected advisors are generally more complex and larger than the ones without. In addition, target valuation is significantly higher for deals with connected advisors than the ones without. However, the completion rate is generally indifferent between the two types of deals, but the completion time is typically shorter for the deals with connected advisors. Moreover, targets' announcement returns are significantly positive when connected advisors are hired. Overall, it appears that interbank connections benefit the target firms.
Working With Creative Leaders: Exploring The Relationship Between Supervisors' And Subordinates' Creativity, 2017 Trinity University
Working With Creative Leaders: Exploring The Relationship Between Supervisors' And Subordinates' Creativity, Gamze Koseoglu, Yi Liu, Christina E. Shalley
School of Business Faculty Research
We propose that supervisors' own level of creativity is a core component of effective leadership that can be associated with subordinates' self-concept and creativity. Specifically, drawing on the identity theory framework, and role identity theory in particular, we argue that subordinates' creative role identity is an important underlying mechanism in the relationship between supervisors' level of creativity and their subordinates' creativity. Using a sample of 443 employees working with 44 supervisors in an IT firm, we hypothesized and found support for a moderated mediation model. There was a positive indirect relationship between supervisors' creativity and their subordinates' creativity via the …
2017 Q4 Private Capital Access Index Report, 2017 Pepperdine University
2017 Q4 Private Capital Access Index Report, Craig R. Everett
Pepperdine Private Capital Access Report
The Pepperdine Private Capital Access Index (PCA) is a quarterly indicator produced by the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University, and with the support of Dun & Bradstreet. The index is designed to measure the demand for, activity, and health of the private capital markets. The purpose of the PCA Index is to gauge the demand of small and medium sized businesses for financing needs, the level of accessibility of private capital, and the transparency and efficiency of private financing markets.
Are Inflation Measures Really Measuring Inflation?, 2017 Molloy College
Are Inflation Measures Really Measuring Inflation?, Peter L. D'Antonio Ph.D.
Faculty Works: Business
This paper challenges the underlying assumptions that form the basis for current US inflation measurement. Standard inflation models implicitly treat all divergences of sector price changes as temporary noise. Based on this logic, the only force driving price level changes over time must be the underlying inflation rate. This paper proposes an alternative model that allows for persistent sector-specific price changes, and then conducts statistical tests to determine if sector price changes represent significant alternate forces driving measured inflation. The tests show that several sectoral forces are distorting measured inflation, indicating that traditional inflation gauges are not measuring underlying inflation …
Commentary: Wanted - A New Generation Of Accountants, 2017 Singapore Management University
Commentary: Wanted - A New Generation Of Accountants, Poh Sun Seow, Gary Pan, Clarence Goh
Research Collection School Of Accountancy
Facing a new wave of automation, young accountants must redefine their role and their value-add to their company, say three Singapore Management University observers.
What Do We Know About Corporate Social Responsibility Messaging?, 2017 Old Dominion University
What Do We Know About Corporate Social Responsibility Messaging?, John B. Ford
Marketing Faculty Publications
As the number of submissions to the Journal of Advertising Research (JAR) continues to increase, the time has come for us to step up our peer-review process with the addition of a group of Associate Editors (AEs), who will be given oversight of manuscripts that match their areas of expertise.
2017 December, 2017 Morehead State University
2017 December, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.
Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present
Press releases from December of 2017.
Symbiotic Relationships Among Innovations And Sustainable Practices: A Supply Chain Management Perspective, 2017 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Symbiotic Relationships Among Innovations And Sustainable Practices: A Supply Chain Management Perspective, Muratcan Erkul
Theses and Dissertations
Sustainability as a business phenomenon has occupied the attention of academicians, practitioners, and consumers for more than three decades. While some firms emphasize on their own internal sustainability initiatives, there is a growing trend to implement sustainability across the supply chain. This increasing interest makes implementation of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices very important for focal firm's sustainability; however, the ability to create innovative products, processes, and ways of operating is crucial if an organization is to be sustainable. Although there have been studies that investigate innovation in the context of sustainability, their scopes are limited to a single …
Essays On Financial Decision Making, 2017 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Essays On Financial Decision Making, Corey A. Shank
Theses and Dissertations
Individuals make financial decisions daily, yet the literature on the mechanisms that drive financial decisions is limited. This dissertation looks to examine how physical characteristics, and personality subconsciously influence financial decision making by conducting an experiment. Furthermore, this dissertation examines biased decision making in the betting market by using data from covers.com. First, this dissertation finds that the cognitive impairments associated with having a higher body mass index is positively related to poor financial decision making and being more likely to commit the present bias, and distorting probabilities. Second, this dissertation finds that business students are more apt to fit …
Regression-Discontinuity Analysis Of The Effects Of Government Housing Policies, 2017 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Regression-Discontinuity Analysis Of The Effects Of Government Housing Policies, Alejandro Rojas
Theses and Dissertations
An influential literature has applied regression-discontinuity (RD) analysis to investigate the effects of government housing policies. This literature has failed to identify substantial effects of these policies, but may also suffer from various biases and limitations. This dissertation carefully examines what, if any, issues face RD analysis in this context. Chapter II considers the Affordable Housing Goals (AHGs) and Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), affordable housing policies that compel Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F) and depository institutions, respectively, to increase access to mortgage credit for borrowers perceived by some as “underserved” by the mortgage market. Chapter III considers the overall …
Assessing The Current Efficiencies Of Farm Credit Of Western Arkansas, 2017 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Assessing The Current Efficiencies Of Farm Credit Of Western Arkansas, Hailey Paulsen
Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Undergraduate Honors Theses
Farm Credit is a unique banking structure, as it is a cooperative which pays patronage dividends to its members. As such, the rates for loans (nominal interest rates) that Farm Credit offers can be slightly higher than larger commercial banks because the patronage payment can offset some, all or more of interest rate difference, which results in an effective rate. Farm Credit, like other globally evolving industries, must continuously look for ways to differentiate themselves to compete for new customers and retain existing ones. Thus, this study sets out to survey the members of Western Farm Credit of Arkansas to …
Profitability Analysis Of Varying Herd Sizes Based On Price Signals In Cow-Calf Operations, 2017 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Profitability Analysis Of Varying Herd Sizes Based On Price Signals In Cow-Calf Operations, Colson Tester
Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Undergraduate Honors Theses
The third most consumed meat around the world is beef. Despite global growth in demand, cattle markets experience price cycles related to biological production lags causing variability in cash flow and profitability for producers. Price-driven herd size management strategies thus have received attention. This study adds to that literature by analyzing both price and production risk using three herd size management strategies: i) steady state – holding herd size constant; ii) dollar cost averaging – keeping reinvestment constant by varying the number of replacement heifers retained at a constant long run average dollar total; and iii) moving average – using …
Recognizing Linguistic Cues To Align Financial Coaching Strategies With The Transtheoretical Model Of Change, 2017 Utah State University
Recognizing Linguistic Cues To Align Financial Coaching Strategies With The Transtheoretical Model Of Change, Lucy M. Delgadillo
Applied Sciences, Technology and Education Faculty Publications
Financial coaching is more effective if a finance professional understands where a client is in the process of change. This article presents five mini scenarios exemplifying the stages of change as they apply to clients receiving financial coaching as well as a sampling of coaching strategies useful for helping clients move through those stages. In particular, the focus of each mini scenario is language used by clients that can provide clues about the stage of change the client is in. Financial management Extension professionals can use the information presented to recognize linguistic cues related to stages of change and align …
Application: Solving For A Local Companys Optimal Storage Strategy, 2017 Utah State University
Application: Solving For A Local Companys Optimal Storage Strategy, Dakota Ferrin
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
This project used historical spot and futures price data of two fairly closely correlated commodities to simulate many possible spot and futures price paths that could have occurred over a given time frame. These simulated prices were then used to test various commodity storage strategies available through futures contracts. This paper explains how results, including values such as the mean terminal cumulative profit and the standard deviation of the mean terminal cumulative profits for each strategy, can be interpreted to help determine a local company’s optimal storage strategy.
This paper specifically provides a way for a local company to find …
Performance Of Statistical Arbitrage In Future Markets, 2017 Utah State University
Performance Of Statistical Arbitrage In Future Markets, Shijie Sheng
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
This paper is the replication of Alizadeh and Nomikos (2008) Performance of Statistical Arbitrage in Petroleum Futures Markets. Cited methodology from the original paper, this paper investigates the linkages between commodities in the future markets and apply trading strategy based on statistical analysis. The trading strategy is established based on cointegration relationships between commodities and execute trading rules to determine long-short positions. The robustness of trading result will be implemented by using stationary bootstrap approach. From the result, we can see the trading strategy based on cointegration relationship analysis is efficient to set up trading strategies in given datasets.
Process Models Discovery And Traces Classification: A Fuzzy-Bpmn Mining Approach., 2017 University of East London
Process Models Discovery And Traces Classification: A Fuzzy-Bpmn Mining Approach., Kingsley Okoye Dr, Usman Naeem Dr, Syed Islam Dr, Abdel-Rahman H. Tawil Dr, Elyes Lamine Dr
Journal of International Technology and Information Management
The discovery of useful or worthwhile process models must be performed with due regards to the transformation that needs to be achieved. The blend of the data representations (i.e data mining) and process modelling methods, often allied to the field of Process Mining (PM), has proven to be effective in the process analysis of the event logs readily available in many organisations information systems. Moreover, the Process Discovery has been lately seen as the most important and most visible intellectual challenge related to the process mining. The method involves automatic construction of process models from event logs about any domain …
Data Protection In Nigeria: Addressing The Multifarious Challenges Of A Deficient Legal System, 2017 Adeleke University, Ede
Data Protection In Nigeria: Addressing The Multifarious Challenges Of A Deficient Legal System, Roland Akindele
Journal of International Technology and Information Management
This paper provides an overview of the current state of privacy and data protection policies and regulations in Nigeria. The paper contends that the extant legal regime in Nigeria is patently inadequate to effectively protect individuals against abuse resulting from the processing of their personal data. The view is based on the critical analysis of the current legal regime in Nigeria vis-à-vis the review of some vital data privacy issues. The paper makes some recommendations for the reform of the law.