This is the first comprehensive study of VIX futures ETNs. This empirical research into their
statistical characteristics motivates the development of a sub-class of these notes based on …

By blending theoretical and empirical approaches, the authors suggest that an allocation to
emerging-markets stocks can enhance a portfolio's long-term risk-adjusted returns. The …

Based on analysis of private equity performance, this article challenges the widespread
assumption that private equity investments can provide both exceptional returns and enhanced …

Conventional wisdom maintains that small-cap active equity funds have had higher excess
returns than their larger-cap counterparts because the small-cap market is less efficient and …

This dissertation contains three essays that can be read independently. The first chapter
examines how a debt crisis can occur and persist as a result of unanticipated, transitory, real …

… information about early historic Northwestern California. Early re … Northwestern California
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… Wicas is a professor of educational psychology and Chairperson, Counselor Education …
Wicas and Mahan (1966) found that “high rated counselors were anxious, sensitive to the …

… Thirty-three full-time secondary public school counselors, nineteen women and fourteen
men, employed in four northwest counties in Arkansas made up the sample for this study. …