Explain how biological factors may affect one cognitive process Memory is essential to human beings. It’s not only the brain’s main function‚ but is also used everyday without us noticing: we acquire new information‚ store it‚ retain it and might retrieve it if needed. It’s thanks to memory and its three main stages: encoding‚ storage and retrieval‚ that humans can operate and recall events and information on a daily basis with no difficulty or effort whatsoever. In 1960‚ it was claimed that there
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M.Sc. Economics and Finance Dissertation INTEREST RATE SENSITIVITY OF STOCK RETURNS Acknowledgements I would like to thank my supervisor Dr. Illias Tsiakas for his continued support and Encouragement. I would like to thank my father‚ mother and my sister for their tremendous support and understanding not only through the period of this thesis but for the period of the entire masters programme. In addition I would like to thank some of my friends who supported and encouraged me. Special thanks
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Comparative study of risk and returns of BSE-200 stocks Kapil Malhotra 10FN051 Objective of the Analysis: The objective of my study is to understand the need to analyse the movement of the market and fulfilling them so as to achieve my goal of becoming better investor/ trader. Profit and loss are the two inseparable features of the stock market. But losses can be minimized and profits can be increased with the help of Technicals. I have done the analysis on the basis of the daily closing
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relationship between oil price shocks‚ stock returns and other macroeconomic variables. Sadorsky (1996) explained that high oil prices reduced output and increased inflation in 1970’s and early 1980’s falling oil prices boosted output and lowered inflation particularly‚ in the U.S in the mid to late 1980’s. Oil price shocks and aggregate stock returns are important macroeconomic variable in the open economy‚ because high oil prices tend to show how vibrant a stock market is because it helps to attract
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Superficially it appears that this alone was enough to instigate the Revolution‚ which was a crucial factor. However The French Revolution of 1789 when the Storming of Bastille took place is one of the most debated and controversial subjects‚ which has been dominated by two school of thoughts: the Marxist and the Revisionist. Both school of thoughts present compelling arguments as to whether the French Revolution may have been a Bourgeois Revolution
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Returns 1 RETURNS Prices and returns Let Pt be the price of an asset at time t. Assuming no dividends the net return is Pt Pt − Pt−1 −1= Rt = Pt−1 Pt−1 The simple gross return is Pt = 1 + Rt Pt−1 Returns 2 Example: If Pt−1 = 2 and Pt = 2.1 then 2.1 Pt 1 + Rt = = = 1.05 and Rt = 0.05 Pt−1 2 Returns 3 The gross return over k periods (t − k to t) is 1 + Rt (k) := Pt−1 Pt−k+1 Pt Pt ··· = Pt−k Pt−1 Pt−2 Pt−k = (1 + Rt ) · · · (1 + Rt−k+1 ) Returns are • scale-free‚ meaning that they do not depend
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Alexis de Tocqueville a French sociologist and political theorist(history.com) wrote about the French Revolutions in his writing. He analyzes the eighteenth century‚ and how it was a time of contrast and contradiction (uoregon.edu). He acknowledges that “The ideas and feelings of every age are connected with those of the age that preceded it‚ by invisible but almost omnipotent ties” (Tocqueville 1)‚ and to fully understand and comprehend the French Revolutions one must analyze the state of France
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Before the French revolution‚ people were subdivided in to social classes that included the Aristocrats‚ the bourgeoisie‚ and the peasants. The aristocrats were considered to be a high-class society and they received special treatment as opposed to other classes of people. Moreover‚ aristocrats had great influence compared to other classes of people. They lived luxuriously in large cities like London and Paris. Aristocrats lived in high-class residential areas surrounded by beautiful environments
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and Stock Market Returns: Full Information Maximum Likelihood Estimation John K. M. Kuwornu (Corresponding author) Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness‚ P. O. Box LG 68‚ University of Ghana‚ Legon‚ Accra‚ Ghana Tel: +233 245 131 807 E-mail: jkuwornu@ug.edu.gh / jkuwornu@gmail.com Owusu-Nantwi‚ Victor Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration‚ P. O. Box AH 50‚ Achimota‚ Accra‚ Ghana Tel: + 233 245 131 807 E-mail: owuvic@yahoo.co.uk Abstract This study examines the relationship
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FIFA World Cup Match Outcomes and Stock Market Returns Prepared For: Prof. Jeffery Cao" ! Prepared By:" Kara " Shwe Yee Win (G1089264W)" Stefanie" !1 Table of Contents Abstract" 3" Introduction" 3" Motivation and Theoretical Background" 3" Data Sources and Methodology" 4" Event Study" 7" Motivation" 7" Methodology" 7" Results and Analysis " 9" Implications and further analysis" Regression" 14" 15" Motivation" 15" Data Set" 15" Results and Analysis" 16" Implications
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