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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Capital Stock"”.
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The Capital Stock Tax in Illinois
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Three essays on the size and contribution of intangible investment to the overall capital stock
… intangible investment on the behavior of the capital stock and on the value of capital goods. I begin by constructing a data set to document firms’ expenditures on an identi- fiable list of intangible items in Canada. I then examine the implications of treating intangible spending as the …
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The impact of sub-optimal international portfolio allocations on cost of capital, stock market development and investor protection standards
… and emerging markets have liberalised their stock markets by removing investment restrictions on equity capital inflows and outflows. The aim is to attract foreign investors and also to allow domestic investors to diversify internationally. However, existing literature shows that local …
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The impact of economic policy uncertainty on cost of capital, stock market development, and debt home and foreign bias: cross country evidence.
… of economic policy uncertainty on the cost of capital. The second examines the impact of economic policy uncertainty on stock market development. The third explores the role of economic policy uncertainty on debt home and foreign bias. In the first empirical chapter, we investigate whether …
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Further investigation into the role of education in the demand for health care
… Starting from the premise that the household’s stock of health capital is a nondurable commodity which depreciates over time; that it can be augmented by investment; that the household production function for gross investment in health capital stock is homogeneous of degree one in both inputs of …
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Essays on the business cycle
… It deals with growth of investment and of capital stock subject to depreciation and periodic replacement. " E. Domar The above citation is taken from a piece, Depreciation Replacement and Growth, written by Evsey Domar in 1953. A few years later he will write Depreciation Replacement and …
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Textile and Apparel Exports of India and South Korea: An Econometric Analysis
… independent variables were net value of physical-capital stock, technological capital, two different levels of human capital, unit labor cost in textiles and in apparel, per-capita domestic apparel production, and domestic cotton production. The study extends that by Zhang and Dardis (1991) who …
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The relationship between electricity and economic activity, and the saturation level of the electricity share in the secondary energy usage
… establishments provides energy to utilize the capital stock. In some processes electricity is a direct input into the production process.
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Materials, Engineering, and the Economy:an Input-Output Study of Technical Decisions in the United Kingdom
… on the UK imports bill, on total labour and capital stock requirements, and on the prices of UK industrial products. The technical changes considered include a substitution of plastic for steel in motor car bodies, a reduction of the material content of final engineering and construction …
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Essays in Foreign Investment
… discount factor, (ii) the size of the domestic capital stock, and (iii) the world interest rate. We consider two policies that are frequently used by multilateral organizations: technical assistance and loan subsidies. We show that these policies improve welfare and provide a rationale for the …
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Higher level manpower development in Indonesia: Rates of return and embodied technical change
… policy implications. Further, the estimates of capital stock (both human and non-human) in Indonesia are carried out in this research.
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Pay Determinants in the Malaysian Economy: Evidence from Employee, Employer, and Employer-Employee Perspectives
… the findings indicate that firm size, human capital stock in the firm, worker performance, capital stock, and firm performance are important factors that affect the Malaysian average monthly pay. Besides, the elasticity of pay with respect to employer size is two percent, and this figure …
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Regional economic performance and public infrastructure investment
… analysts are the likely result of poor public capital data spanning to short an interval, and an inadequate modeling framework. Public investment may generate small improvements in productivity, but models understate economic impacts owing to the public goods character of some forms of public …
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Three essays on the endogenous growth of a regional economy under the impacts of demographic changes
… that endogenously determined investment in human capital significantly offsets the negative effects of the ageing population on the regional economy. The chapter also attempts to check if there is room for the government to weaken and prevent the negative effects of the ageing population. For …
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The development of railroads in Missouri to 1860
… to finance the roads by subscriptions to the capital stock by individuals, towns and counties. Early in 1851 the people realized that the task was too great to be carried on without aid from the state. By legislative acts, aid was granted to seven companies who at the close of 1859 had not …
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Essays on human capital
… University. It contains three studies on human capital investment, education and cognitive abilities. The first study follows a macro approach and assesses the impact of various human capital measures on productivity. The main finding of this chapter is that human capital quality has a larger …
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Essays on stock market openness, cost of capital and investment
This thesis examines the effects of stock market openness on the cost of equity capital and investment. Whilst theoretical models and extant empirical evidence suggest that emerging markets integration with global markets promotes risk sharing between domestic and foreign investors, reducing the …
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The demand for electricity in Greece, 1961-1975: an empirical investigation
… that do provide utility, and which use a capital stock of some durability, creates the need for a distinction between demand in the short-run and demand in the long-run. Moreover, total electricity demand is disaggregated into demand by the household, commercial and industrial sectors. …
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The Effects of Social Security on Private Saving
… of private saving would also depress the private capital stock by 13%, which implies a substantial reduction in GDP and a lower level of real income.
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On Sustainable Use of Renewable Resources in Protected Areas as an Instrument of Biodiversity Conservation : A Bioeconomic Analysis
… model with two state variables (resource stock, management capital stock) and two control variables (harvest rate, investment rate) is developed on the basis of the traditional bioeconomic model and optimal control theory. The model identifies eight fundamental factors that influence the …
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