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Gerard Poitras

Professor of civil engineering
Verified email at umoncton.ca
Cited by 235

The early history of financial economics, 1478–1776: From commercial arithmetic to life annuities and joint stocks

G Poitras - The Early History of Financial Economics, 1478–1776, 2000 - elgaronline.com
By the time The Wealth of Nations had appeared, financial economics featured a well
developed body of scientific knowledge, covering subjects such as fixed income evaluation, life …

Heat transfer performance and hydrodynamic behavior of turbulent nanofluid radial flows

G Roy, I Gherasim, F Nadeau, G Poitras… - International Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper presents a numerical investigation of heat transfer and hydrodynamic behavior
of various types of water-based nanofluids inside a typical radial flow cooling device. …

The early history of option contracts

G Poitras - Vinzenz Bronzin's option pricing models: Exposition …, 2009 - Springer
This chapter discusses the history of option contracts from ancient times until the appearance
of Theorie der Prämiengeschäffe by Vinzenz Bronzin in 1908 . The history examines the …

Optimization of steel floor systems using particle swarm optimization

G Poitras, G Lefrançois, G Cormier - Journal of Constructional Steel …, 2011 - Elsevier
… = m g i r d e r s + m e d g e b e a m s + m i n t . b e a m s + m d e c k + m s l a b or (5) F c o s t
= c g i r d e r s + c e d g e … b e a m s + c d e c k + c s l a b + c s t u d s where m g i r d e r s is the …

Spread options, exchange options, and arithmetic Brownian motion

G Poitras - The Journal of Futures Markets (1986-1998), 1998 - search.proquest.com
… of the price processes reaching zero (Heaney and Poitras, 1997). Hence, for pricing traded
… less complicated for unrestricted than for absorbed Brownian motion (Heaney and Poitras, …

Contemporary anime in Japanese pop culture

G Poitras - Japanese Visual Culture, 2014 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Let us begin with the two major definitions for anime1:(1) anime is simply the word used by
the Japanese for all animation, without regard to its nation of origin; and (2) outside of Japan, …

Measuring port efficiency: An application of data envelopment analysis

G Poitras, J Tongzen, H Li - 1996 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
Poitras is an Associate Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University,
… This article was written while G. Poitras was a visiting Sr. Fellow with the Department of …

[BOOK][B] Risk management, speculation, and derivative securities

G Poitras - 2002 - books.google.com
… trading, as Geoffrey Poitras so aptly makes clear in this book. Poitras does an excellent job
of … Powers, Former Editor, The Journal of Futures Markets" Geoff Poitras has written a clear …

[BOOK][B] The Anime Companion 2: More What's Japanese in Japanese Animation?

G Poitras - 2005 - books.google.com
… GILLES POITRASPoitras, Gilles. The anime companion: what’s Japanese in
Japanese animation? / Gilles Poitras. …

The politics of NAFTA in Mexico

G Poitras, R Robertson - Journal of Interamerican Studies and World …, 1994 - cambridge.org
For much of the twentieth century, Third World economies that were based upon import-substitution
industrialization (ISI) were dominated by authoritarian regimes. When economic …