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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Capital investments"”.
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Identifying successful corporate venture capital investments
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1991.
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Essays on Human Capital Investments: Pharmaceuticals and Education
This thesis consists of four essays on individual health behaviour and investment in higher education. Three of them consider different aspects of pharmaceutical utilization and aim at explaining some of the observed individual variation in access and adherence to treatment regimens. The fourth …
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Essays on human capital investments in developing countries
… chapters that explore determinants of parental investments in their children’s health and education in developing countries. Below are the individual abstracts for each chapter. Chapter 1: Child Ability, Parental Investments and Child Nutrition in Ecuador This paper investigates the role of …
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Three essays on human capital: investments, resilience, and spillovers
… focusing on different dimensions of human capital: investment decisions, resilience, and spillovers. Chapter 1 investigates the importance of subjective expectations of returns to and effort costs of maternal investments in newborns. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected effort …
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Essays on the economic effects of human capital investments
… essays analyzing the economic effects of human capital investments. The first chapter evaluates the effects of a major educational reform in India called Operation Blackboard. The teacher component of Operation Blackboard increased the number of primary school teachers by ten percent. I find …
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Impact of Typhoons on Children's Human Capital Investments in Filipino Households
… affect household allocation of basic human capital investments, such as breastfeeding duration. Using OLS estimation and a distributed lag model, I find that children are significantly breastfed about 4.8 months less on average in the year following a storm. This effect is mostly seen in …
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An Evaluation of Capital Investments and the Development of Procedures for a Manufacturing Firm
The basic purpose of capital budgeting is to regulate the flow of funds in an organization in such a way that the objectives of the enterprise are fulfilled regardless of size. The regulating of the flow of funds includes both the determination of the source and use of the funds. Capital budgeting …
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Human Capital Investments by Scientists and Engineers: on-the-Job Training and Job Information
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T14:24:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7714938.pdf: 4158481 bytes, checksum: e4aa2825e5a8c2643c34a7bd28beff46 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Picking winners : a big data approach to evaluating startups and making venture capital investments
… 60%, which is nearly double that of top venture capital firms
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The Relevance of Economic, Institutional and Cultural Determinants for Venture Capital Investments. A US-Europe Comparison.
… analyzes the determinants of early-stage VC investments by identifying characteristics in the economic, institutional, as well as cultural framework that could explain the diverging levels of early-stage VC investments across countries. Data was assembled for 16 countries during the period …
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Asset sharing and stakeholder arrangements : human capital investments, the distribution of powers, and the role of property rights and economic institutions
Theories of human capital investment, which emphasize encouraging and protecting investments in human capital, have become salient in rationalizing the adoption of firm asset-sharing and employee stakeholder arrangements, such as Employee Stock Ownership Plans. Yet, mechanisms such as bargaining …
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Temporal Changes in the Spatial Distribution of Venture Capital Investment to Biotechnology Companies within the United States.
… changes in the spatial distribution of venture capital investments to biotechnology companies within the United States. Data included venture capital to biotech investments from 1995 to 2005. Venture capital and biotech data from the Money Tree Report, were gathered, analyzed, and mapped to show …
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Institutional Constraints and Bolivian Agrarian Development During the Pre-Agrarian Reform and Post-Agrarian Reform Periods
… in the agrarian reform law led to reduced capital investments, extensive land use and poverty. Less restrictive property rights may be the solution to economic stagnation in the rural sector.
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Demand forecasting and decision making under uncertainty for long-term production planning in aviation industry
… high-value manufacturing, long lead times, large capital investments, and highly variable demand. Making important decisions with intensive capital investments requires accurate forecasting of future demand. However, this can be challenging because of significant variability in future scenarios. …
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Market valuation of firm investments in training and human capital management
The relationship between a firm’s human capital management and its performance is a topic of growing interest in recent years. With the increasing role of technology and the rapid innovations in many industries, having highly skilled and knowledgeable employees is often necessary for success. Firms …
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The Contribution of Financial Institutions to Thai Economic Development
… in the allocation of these savings into real capital investments. (4) Their impact on the distribution of income, wealth and economic power.
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Catalytic effects of IMF agreements on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in sub-Saharan Africa
… Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will facilitate foreign capital investments or FDI inflows from multinational corporations and or foreign investors. Through empirical observations, and using a two-stage modelling technique, this research tested and examined this hypothesis. It empirically showed that SSA …
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Capitalist Pigs: Large-Scale Swine Facilities and the Mutual Construction of Nature and Society
… laws, neighbors, land grant universities, capital investments, government agencies, agricultural companies, and grassroots organizations) and physical agents (such as swine, bacteria, building materials, medicine, and transportation technologies). All of these agents have interacted with …
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Uncovering the secrets of bitcoin's success
… volume, merchant adoption, and venture capital investments. In this thesis, the author investigates why bitcoin is the most successful cryptocurrency to date. The author's research identified that bitcoin's success is rooted in its ability to become an effective multisided platform with …
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The immigrant experience : networks, skills and the next generation
… the remaining population. Using a standard human capital framework where individuals choose how much to invest in both their children's and their own human capital, I show that a gap in education can arise in the absence of differences in unobservable characteristics between immigrants and the …
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