Posthumous trading patterns affecting artwork prices

Factors affecting agricultural land prices

n the twenty years that preceded 1920 I there was a 245 percent increase in the average per-acre price of farmland (including improvements) before land values fell sharply. Today’s escalation in land values-364 percent between 1957 and 1977-prompts some pointed questions: Have land prices reached their peak? If not, when will they plateau, if ever? Will they then decline and, if so, will the de...

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Factors affecting laboratory test use and prices

The use of clinical laboratory tests has more than doubled during the past decade. Some observers of the health system feel that this growth is excessive and is a result of current payment systems. This article examines the effects of current reimbursement policies with regard to the use of laboratory tests and prices charged for tests. The results suggest the following: The method of financing...

Stereoscopic Artwork

The focus of this work is to investigate and simulate artistic techniques in stereoscopy that go beyond stereo photography, such as stereoscopic painting. We briefly discuss the topic from a stereo artist’s perspective and map some of our observations from traditional stereo techniques to the scientific domain, where we use them to tackle technical tasks involved in the generation of stereo art...

Nickels versus Black Swans: Reputation, Trading Strategies and Asset Prices

This paper analyzes a model of fund managers’ reputation concerns. It explains why “Nickel strategies” (strategies that earn small positive returns most of the time but occasionally lead to dramatic losses) are more popular among managers than the opposite “Black Swan strategies,” (strategies that generate small losses most of the time but occasionally lead to large profits). A novel insight fr...