We are in the small, cramped office of the fatwa hotline on the eighth floor of the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowments in Abu Dhabi, better known by its Arabic acronym, the Awqaf.
The hedge funds are also looking to capitalize on the increased interest by pension funds and endowments in reinsurance.
Why are there subjects who cooperate in the Prisoner's Dilemma game [1] and contribute their endowments in the Public Goods game [3]?
The 200 schools with the largest endowments in the U.S. and Canada were graded.
With endowments in the doldrums and government funding curtailed at state universities, colleges both public and private are stepping up efforts to tap parents of current students for donations in ways previously reserved for graduates established in careers.
MANHATTAN: NEW FOUNDATION CHIEF -- The Atlantic Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic endowments in the world and also one of the most secretive, yesterday appointed a new president and chief executive, John R. Healy, 54, of Dublin.
Like the so-called independent financial advisors who flogged dodgy endowments in the Eighties and Nineties, because they were on a percentage from the mortgage companies, the analysts were also paid by the banks to market the dotcoms.
The difference is decomposed into an explained part, which is due to differences in endowments or explanatory variables (labelled "endowments" in the table), and an unexplained part, which is due to different behavioural effects or coefficients between the two groups (labelled "coefficients" in the table) and an interaction effect between the endowment and coefficient effects.
Referring to the individual endowments in the explained and unexplained sections of Table 4, coefficients greater than unity indicate a widening of the gap while coefficients less than unity indicate a closing of the gap.
As part of the proposed permitting process, companies would need to pay $10,000 for a "public property repair and maintenance endowment" in the event the city incurs additional costs due to the damaging of public property or needing to store improperly parked scooters.
