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This article studies the effect that immigrant has on mortgage delinquency rate in Canadianhousing market. We refer the paper ‘Immigrant and mortgage delinquency’ made by Lin, Liu and Xie(2016),…

The paper focuses on finding the interaction among stock, bonds and CDS markets from a country’s level to get the pattern of lead-lag relationship among three markets. It adopts a three-dimensional…

Value-at-Risk (VaR) is a commonly used measure of market risk in the financialindustry. The measure seeks to identify the loss that an investment may realize within acertain confidence level. It is…

In this paper, we attempt to examine the relationship between hedge fund asset under management (AUM) and fund return. We refer to the methodology and conclusions used in Platt, Cai, and Platt (2015…

This paper attempts to re-examine Li (2007)’s study on the interrelationships among the stock exchanges in mainland China, Hong Kong and the U.S. by applying a four-variable BEKK-GARCH model. After…

In this paper, we explore the use of Schwartz and Smith two-factor model incopper pricing. We used both Copper future data from LME and Analyst Forecast datafrom Bloomberg (LME) and World Bank as…

This paper focuses on the possible existence of a pricing inefficiency in stocks that have traded options. The idea is that because option writers are more sophisticated than option buyers, they may…

This paper provides the empirical analysis of leverage and pricing of leveraged buyout (LBO) transactions. We collected sample data of 87 deals that were completed over the period of 1995 to 2013 in…

Prescribed burning and hand-pulling are used to manage invasive plants but treatments can deferentially affect species. My objective is to determine the effect of time-since-burning and hand-pulling…

Given that CEO tenure is considered an impetus to firm performance, we analyze the abnormal returns for different tenure groups using the Fama-French (1993) and Carhart (1997) four-factor model. The…

This project explores the effect of ideology on the policy-making process through a case-study analysis of the NDP majority government which governed the province from 1991-1996. The focus is…

Although the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY) and the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (YLS/CMI) are among the most widely used adolescent risk assessment tools…

In May 2017, our library decommissioned our locally developed, open source knowledgebase and link resolver and adopted a vendor-provided one. This session will cover the pros and cons of being a…

Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) is an aggressive hematological cancer for which mitochondrial metabolism may play an important role. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) encodes crucial mitochondrial…

BackgroundInflammation contributes to breast cancer development through its effects on cell damage. This damage is usually dealt with by key genes involved in apoptosis and autophagy pathways.…

This paper asserts that truly activist media must be dually committed to critical education and to political action. Whereas my previous work has focused on the need for activist media to challenge…

This essay examines the traces of indigenous Moroccan oral storytelling in various collections of translated work. By focusing on the variations of form across these collections, and highlighting the…

In this paper, I analyze the forms of mobility and the affective modulations that shaped the trajectories of indigenous people from the Chaco region to the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where they…

A good review process ensures government agencies approve projects which are in the public's interest and reject those that are not. Recently, the Canadian review process for pipelines has…

Conventional approaches to environmental impact assessment and cumulative effects assessment (CEA) have largely failed to incorporate the cultural values of Aboriginal communities and have…