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How Many Independent Bets Are There?

We discuss a robust alternative to the ex-post decomposition of a portfolio into the fundamental law co-efficients using statistically estimated breadth. The breadth of a market provides a measure of the number of independent bets available to the investor. We use the Keiser-Gutman stopping criterion to select the integer valued effective dimension eigenvalues greater-than or equal to 1. Such a...

ar X iv : h ep - p h / 01 08 19 5 v 5 1 4 Ja n 20 02 1 The Standard Model in 2001

The “Standard Model” of elementary particle physics encompasses the progress that has been made in the past half-century in understanding the weak, electromagnetic, and strong interactions. The name was apparently bestowed by my Ph. D. thesis advisor, Sam B. Treiman, whose dedication to particle physics kindled the light for so many of his students during those times of experimental and theoret...

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ar X iv : 0 80 1 . 30 36 v 1 [ as tr o - ph ] 1 9 Ja n 20 08 Smart Focal Plane Technologies for VLT Instruments

As we move towards the era of ELTs, it is timely to think about the future role of the 8-m class telescopes. Under the OPTICON programme novel technologies have been developed that are intended for use in multi-object and integral-field spectrographs. To date, these have been targeted at instrument concepts for the European ELT, but there are also significant possibilities for their inclusion i...

The Influence of Agency Costs on Dividend Policy in an Emerging Market: Evidence from the Tehran Stock Exchange

Dividend policy has long been an issue of interest in the financial literature. To date, a number of studies published on agency costs and dividend policy but most of them are on developed markets, It is well known that the emerging markets are quite different from developed markets in all respects. So, the existing published evidence is of limited relevance in identifying the influence of agen...