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Carolina Noronha Ferraz de Arruda, Rocio Geng Vivanco, Ayodele Alves Amorim, Adriana Cavalcanti Ferreira, Rafaella Tonani Torrieri, Floris Jacob Bikker, Fernanda de Carvalho Panzeri Pires de Souza
Objective. This study evaluated, in vitro and in situ, the effect of phytosphingosine (PHS) associated with toothbrushing regarding color stability, surface roughness, and microhardness. Methods. Sixty-four specimens of bovine teeth (6x6x2 mm) were s
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https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1570284/v1
https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1570284/v1
Autor:
Jacob Bikker
Pension fund benefits are crucial for pensioners'welfare and pension fund savings have accumulated to huge amounts, covering a major part of world-wide institutional investments. However, the literature on pension fund economics and finance is rather
A New Measure of Competition in the Financial Industry : The Performance-Conduct-Structure Indicator
Autor:
Jacob Bikker, Michiel van Leuvensteijn
The 2008 credit crisis started with the failure of one large bank: Lehman Brothers. Since then the focus of both politicians and regulators has been on stabilising the economy and preventing future financial instability. At this juncture, we are at t
Autor:
Jacob Bikker
This paper investigates scale economies and the optimal scale of pension funds, estimating different cost functions with varying assumptions about the shape of the underlying average cost function: Ushaped versus monotonically declining. Using unique
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Performance of the life insurance industry under pressure: efficiency, competition and consolidation
Autor:
Jacob Bikker
A well-performing life insurance industry benefits consumers, producers and insurance firm stockholders alike. Unfavourable market conditions stress the need for life insurers to perform well in order to remain solvent. Using a unique supervisory dat
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Autor:
Laura Spierdijk, Jacob Bikker
This paper discusses the implications of mean reversion in stock prices for long-term investors such as pension funds. We start with a general definition of a mean-reverting price process and explain how mean reversion in stock prices is related to m
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Administrative costs per participant appear to vary widely across pension funds in different countries. These costs are important because they reduce the rate of return on the investments of pension funds, and consequently raise the cost of retiremen
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Autor:
Jacob Bikker
The traditional gravity model has been applied many times to international trade flows, especially in order to analyze trade creation and trade diversion. However, there are two fundamental objections to the model: it cannot describe substitutions be
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Autor:
Jan de Dreu, Jacob Bikker
This paper assesses the sophistication of pension funds' investment policies using data on 748 Dutch pension funds during the 19992006 period. We develop three indicators of sophistication: gross rounding of investment choices, investments in alterna
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Autor:
Jacob Bikker, Laura Spierdijk
This paper is the first detailed and world-wide investigation of the developments in banking competition during the past fifteen years. Using the Panzar-Rosse approach, we establish significant changes over time in the competitiveness of the banking
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