Testing the Survival Model: Does Sukuk Offer a Better Trade-Off Than Bonds?

Sukuk Vs Conventional Bonds A study into the performance of Islamic Bonds

"Nobody does nothing better than a hospitalist".

But before we anticipate our future, let’s take a minute to refl ect on 2013. Read even a single issue from last year, and you’ll quickly get a picture of the things our community cares about and the questions we need to answer to improve the care of hospitalized children. To the outside observer, some of these questions might not look like much: the cost of an intravenous catheter placement, a...

Does the Better - Than - Average Effect

We conduct a proper test of the claim that people are overcon…dent, in the sense that they believe that they are better than others. The results of the experiment we present do not allow us to reject the hypotheses that the data has been generated by perfectly rational, unbiased, and appropriately con…dent agents. Keywords: Overcon…dence; Better than Average; Experimental Economics; Irrationali...

A uniform time trade off method for states better and worse than dead: feasibility study of the 'lead time' approach.

The way time trade off (TTO) values are elicited for states of health considered 'worse than being dead' has important implications for the mean values used in economic evaluation. Conventional approaches to TTO, as used in the UK's 'MVH' value set, are problematic because they require fundamentally different trade-offs tasks for the valuation of states better and worse than dead. This study ai...

Does dalteparin PROTECT better than heparin?