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Browsing Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation) by Date Published
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(Conference or Workshop Item (Paper published in proceedings)Conference or Workshop Item (Poster), ASCILITE 2012, 2012)StudySmart is an online course designed for second year medical students at the University of Otago. This course was designed to replace a two hour library and information skills lab, and comprises a series of topics, tasks ... -
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(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), Computer and Information Science Seminar Series, 2010)With the installation of the Music Department’s new SSL mixing console and the founding of the New Zealand Music Industry Centre (NZMiC), there are exciting new possibilities for sound production and performance at Otago, ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), Computer and Information Science Seminar Series, 2009)Most researchers will create or acquire numerous sets of data during their career, but the sad reality is that many of these data sets are not managed systematically. This was not such an issue when data sets were relatively ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), Computer and Information Science Seminar Series, 2009)Pure Data (Pd) is a graphical data-flow environment for multimedia, created by Miller Puckette of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at UCSD. It’s a fun, versatile and intuitive environment providing high-level ...
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(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), Computer and Information Science Seminar Series, 2008)Abstract: The RepRap Project is an open source hardware and software project headed by Adrian Bowyer of the University of Bath with the goal of producing a low cost ‘rapid prototyper’ or 3D printer i.e. a machine that can ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Finance department, Seminar, 2007)This paper uses Indian stock futures data to explore unbiased expectations and efficient market hypothesis. Having experienced voluminous transactions within a short time span after its establishment, the Indian stock ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Finance department, Seminar, 2007)Examining a sample of more than 4,600 IPOs across 24 countries from 2000-2004, we find that firm- and deal-specific characteristics widely used in IPO single-country underpricing studies (e.g., offer size, underwriter ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Finance department, Seminar, 2007)We find that relative to fundamentals, dual-class firms trade at lower prices than do singleclass firms both at the IPO date and for at least the subsequent five years. The lower prices attached to dual-class firms do not ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), AAA 2007 Conference & AFAANZ 2007 Conference, 2007)This study finds that the agency problems of companies with high free cash flow (FCF) and low growth opportunities induce auditors of companies in the United States to raise audit fees to compensate for the additional ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), AAA 2007 Conference & AFAANZ 2007 Conference, 2007)This study finds that the agency problems of companies with high free cash flow (FCF) and low growth opportunities induce auditors of companies in the United States to raise audit fees to compensate for the additional ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago Department of Finance Seminar Series, 2006)Much of bubble literature centred on financial markets. Dominant theory – if prices deviate from fundamental value for some time then a bubble is said to exist. Bubbles usually characterised in three main ways: ● momentum: ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Department of Finance, Seminar, 2006)We have estimated the cost of capital for the New Zealand listed non-finance corporate sector by the corporate internal rate of return method adopted by Fama and French (1999). The real IRR on value is 1.87% and IRR on ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Department of Finance, Seminar, 2006)This study explores analyst annual earnings forecasts in New Zealand. The results show that forecasts of New Zealand firms do not suffer from the pessimistic biases found in studies of forecasts for United States firms. ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Department of Finance, Seminar, 2006)We report evidence on the choice between explicit (written) and implicit contracting for a sample of agreements between CEOs and their firms. Fewer than half of S&P 500 CEOs have explicit contracts. Evidence on the ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Department of Finance, Seminar, 2006)In this paper, we present a new methodology for modeling intraday volume which allows for a reduction of the execution risk in VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price) orders. The results are obtained for the all stocks included ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Department of Finance, Seminar, 2006)Asset swap spreads are a widely used metric for identifying relative value in bonds. We document that this approach breaks down because different benchmark credit curves have different slopes and spread volatilities. If ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Department of Finance, Seminar, 2006)Partial ownership can be used as a screening device by a foreign firm which wants to merge with a local firm whose productivity is private information. As partial ownership is confined to sharing future merger profits, it ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago, Department of Finance, Seminar, 2006)Fund and other investments often exhibit longer run volatility associated with macroeconomic or other dynamics to an extent inconsistent with the efficient market accumulation model. Volatility and performance models or ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago Department of Finance Seminar Series, 2005)Ratio spreads in which one buys X calls (or puts) at one strike and sells Y calls (puts) at a different strike where YX are among the most actively traded option combinations yet are only briefly mentioned in most derivatives ... -
(Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar, Speech or Other Presentation), University of Otago Department of Finance Seminar Series, 2005)A super-efficiency model within Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was used to study the relative efficiency of New Zealand banks for the period 1996 to 2003. Evidence was found for improvement in efficiency, although it was ...
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