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- Default Risk And The Effective Duration Of Bonds
- Basis risk is the risk attributable to uncertain movements in the spread between yields associated with a particular financial instrument or class of instruments, and a reference interest rate over time. The authors focus on that, emphasizing the importance of taking credit risk into account when computing measures of duration....
- White papers 1995-09-01
- Projects Have 4 Corners, Not 1 Or 2
- Projects are like a tube of toothpaste. When we squeeze on the duration corner of a project by lopping a month off the duration, the toothpaste oozes out one of the other corners. When we cut the duration, the project will either achieve less, cost more or have a higher...
- White papers 2006-08-07
- Contract Completeness, Product Complexity, And Regulation: Evidence From Coal-Fired Power Plants
- In this paper the publisher uses data from long term coal contracts for coal red plants to identify factors that contribute to contract completeness and con- tract duration. He considers the impact of the following factors: product complexity, transaction cost variables, and changes in industry regulation. Using a number of...
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Contract Duration: Evidence From Franchising
- Economists generally view standard franchise contracts as efficient, while franchisee advocates view them as exploitive. Consistent with the economic view, it was found that contract duration is positively and significantly related to the franchisee's physical and human capital investments which are often firm specific. In contrast to assertions by franchisee...
- White papers 2006-05-22
- The Duration Or Work Value Changed Unexpectedly When I Assigned A Resource
- When you assign a resource to a task, the duration or work value changes automatically. The duration, work, and resource assignments for a task are interlinked. When you assign a resource to a task, Microsoft Office Project will decrease or increase either the task's duration value or its work value,...
- White papers
- Use A PERT Analysis To Estimate Task Durations
- You have many ways to gather information to estimate durations. However, most of these methods don't allow you the flexibility of analyzing best-case and worst-case scenarios. A Program, Evaluation, and Review Technique PERT analysis gives you this flexibility. You can perform a basic PERT analysis to estimate a task's duration....
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- About Project Crashing (Shortening A Project Schedule)
- Adding more resources to a project to shorten its duration is called "crashing". For non-project managers, crashing seems like an obvious thing to do. But adding resources to a project is often the least dependable way to shorten duration. What's more, it almost always costs more and generates far more...
- White papers
- Goal: Estimate Task Durations
- This paper describes activities as goals because they are organized around the project management life cycle. This paper is designed to help you not only use Project but also better understand project management. One of the best aspects of using Project is that it can calculate a realistic schedule for...
- White papers
- Task Settings That Affect How Tasks Are Scheduled
- Estimating and entering accurate durations is one of the most important things you can do to create a useful schedule. A task's duration is used to calculate start and finish dates for the task and, after you assign resources, the amount of work on the task. Duration, task dependencies, constraints,...
- White papers
- Are Longer Bankruptcies Really More Costly?
- We test the widely held assumption that longer restructurings are more costly. In contrast to earlier studies, we use instrumental variables to control for the endogeneity of restructuring time and creditor return. Instrumenting proves critical to our finding that creditor recovery rates increase with duration for roughly 1½ years following...
- White papers 2006-06-01
- An Analysis of Durations on the Disability Support Pension (DSP) Program
- The paper examines the factors that determine the duration on the Disability Support Pension DSP program using administrative data. The authors estimate two models based on two competing assumptions: the first model takes the standard assumption in duration models that all recipients will eventually leave the program. The second one...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- How Long Should Dinner Take? Measuring Expected Meal Duration for Restaurant Revenue Management
- Restaurants have two strategic levers for revenue management: duration control and demand-based pricing. Reducing dining times, especially during peak periods, can generate considerable increases in revenue for the restaurant. However, managing meal duration can be far more complex than manipulating the price. This paper determines the expected, short, too short,...
- White papers 2002-04-11
- Interest Rate Risk: An Evaluation of Duration Matching as a Risk-Minimizing Strategy for Property/Casualty Insurers
- In this paper, the CAS Valuation, Finance and Investments Committee used Dynamic Financial Analysis to test the hypothesis that duration-matching of assets to a company's liability duration will yield an improved risk profile compared to longer or shorter investment strategies. Although the results varied by scenario tested, the overall conclusion...
- White papers 2001-12-01
- Duration of Residence in the Rental Housing Market
- "This paper estimates a proportional hazard model of duration of residence in rental housing. The study employs unique data from the BLS-CPI housing sample to construct the duration of rental occupancy for metropolitan areas over the 1987-1998 period. The paper employs an innovative semi-parametric estimation approach for group...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Estimating Task Durations: Look into the Methodologies and Psychology of Estimating
- "This entire article is devoted to a discussion on the duration of tasks. This is mainly to know about the relative importance of task durations. A project schedule is the result of the aggregation of all of the task durations. If the durations lack validity, so does the project schedule....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Targacept, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions And our first question will come from the line of Terence Flynn of Lazard Capital Markets. Please proceed. Terence Flynn – Lazard Capital Markets Hi, good afternoon. Just a couple of questions. I was just wondering if you could share with us –...
- Earnings calls 2008-11-20
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- Project Risk Simulation Under Uncertain Construction Duration
- This paper establishes a two-phase model to explore the financial risk of construction project under uncertain construction duration. An illustration of BOT project under uncertain construction duration was utilized for simulation. The simulation result was applied to reveal how uncertain construction duration affects project risk. The paper also shows how...
- White papers 2004-11-11
- Estimating Duration Intervals
- Duration intervals measure the dynamic impact of advertising on sales. More precise, the p percent duration interval measures the time lag between the advertising impulse and the moment that p per cent of its effect has decayed. This paper derives an expression for the duration interval for a general dynamic...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Estimate Activity Duration
- Estimating activity duration accurately is important to the success of any project. You and your team estimate the various requirements of cost, time, and resources throughout your project. Although activity duration estimation looks at the time it takes to complete the entire project, activity duration estimation is dependent on other...
- White papers
- Sherwin-Williams Co.(Duration High Performance Coating)(Brief Article)
- Duration High Performance Coating cuts crew time and costs while delivering the extreme performance that discriminating home buyers expect. Featuring PermaLast Technology--an exclusive acrylic polymer that's ... Duration High Performance Coating cuts crew time and costs while delivering the extreme performance that discriminating...
- Research articles 2000-10-01
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