UNLABELLED The rheumatology nurse specialist (RNS) has become an integral and vital part of the multidisciplinary team and is valued by patients. Yet, a number of challenges regularly face all clinical nurse specialists (CNS) in the UK. The perception that CNS are an expensive and poorly defined nursing resource results in regular threats to their sustainability, particularly that of the RNS. T...

This study examines the empirical relattonship between the return and the total market value of NYSE common stocks. It is found that smaller firms have had htgher risk adjusted returns, on average, than larger lirms. This ‘size effect’ has been in existence for at least forty years and is evidence that the capital asset pricing model is misspecttied. The size elfect is not linear in the market ...

Lajos Juhász Institute of Corporate Economics Faculty of Economics NET PRESENT VALUE VERSUS INTERNAL RATE OF RETURN University of West Hungary [email protected] ABSTRACT. The economic professional literature which deals with investment decisions can be characterised in general that the net present value shows objective picture for the decision maker while the internal rate of return – not...

The convergence between fixed and mobile networks is the new paradigm in the world-wide telecommunications network. Satellites are striving to become an important actor in the Next Generation Networks (NGN) by offering seamless integration with the terrestrial networks. This provides an opportunity to the Satellite industry to advance and adapt this framework to the new DVB-RCS (Digital Video B...

until now single values of irr are traditionally used to estimate the time value of cash flows. since uncertainty exists in estimating cost data, the resulting decision may not be reliable. the most commonly cited drawbacks to using the internal rate of return in evaluatton of deterministic cash flow streams is the possibility of multiple conflicting internal rates of return. in this paper we p...

this research aims to explain the growth and value stocks anomaly by the relationship between accounting ratios and skewness of stock return distribution. then, the data of 89 companies listed in the tehran stock exchange are collected and analyzed for 2009 to 2013. furthermore, the fixed effect panel data method is used to examine the hypothesis. the results show that there is a negative and s...

This paper evaluates out-of-sample dynamic portfolio performance to examine the economic value of exploiting time variation in the risk premium and in the volatility of stock returns to a multiperiod investor. We find that ignoring time variation in these return moments leads to significant utility costs. The time-varying risk premium plays a more important role than time-varying volatility in ...