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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Financial History"”.
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Financial history of the Boston gas industry
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1916. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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A financial history of the Boston elevated
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Business and Engineering Administration, 1926
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Financial history of the public lands in Texas
… give, first, the constitutional and legislative history of each category of public land, together with the significant court decisions affecting their status and their revenue-yielding potentialities. Following this, the receipts actually realized are exhibited. An earnest attempt has been made …
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The financial history of the Manville Jenckes Company, Manville, Rhode Island - a New England cotton textile concern
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Business and Engineering Administration, 1936.
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'A more spectacular example of a loss-making branch would be hard to find': A financial history of the Whitby-Loftus line 1871-1958.
… by looking at the construction of the line, its history up to the opening in 1883, and especially its later history in terms of a financial analysis of the line. Underpinned by detailed and mostly hitherto unused primary sources, the dissertation attempts to modify to a certain extent Irving's …
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Rhetorical Financial Engineering: Challenging an Hermeneutic Framework for Organizational Behavior
This project investigation how financial language is used to create worlds of meaning, serving a purpose dictating human behavior. I offer in this project an exploration-of-concept of a rhetorical method as an intervention into the discipline of behavioral finance and economics. The rhetoric of …
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Hedge fund structured products
… and one of the most volatile periods in recent financial history, individual and institutional investors worldwide are reevaluating their asset allocation strategies. Interest in hedge funds and alternative investment styles is growing as investors realize these investments offer better return …
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Fifteenth century literary culture with particular reference to the patterns of patronage, focussing on the patronage of the Stafford family during the fifteenth century.
… our understanding of fifteenth century literary history, The pattern is still incomplete, and there are several families worthy of and awaiting investigation, The Staffords are such a family, They were known to have been involved in literary activity, including some patronage; 'they were …
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Cango Cave, Oudtshoorn District of the Cape Province, South Africa : an assessment of its development and management 1780-1992 : short title, Management problems at Cango Cave
… made of the legal status, administration, history, management, finances, and conservation status of a show cave in South Africa. This study, using archival sources and field work, makes a thorough assessment of Cango Cave, a well-known show cave in the Swartberg foothills north of …
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The State and the Transformation of British and American Commercial Banking, 1945-2008
… credit to their preferred ends and maintain financial stability. It was broadly accepted that the public interest, as defined by the authorities, was of greater importance than the interests of bank shareholders. From the mid-1950s, large banks proved increasingly uneasy with their …
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Crisis management: towards a model for the hotel industry : an examination of crisis preparedness and stakeholder relationships in crisis situations.
… culture, not organization structure, size, financial history, etc., is the main determinant of crisis preparedness. The research also argue that stakeholders are fundamental in crisis prevention, crisis management and crisis recovery. 2 This study, in a first instance, examines the crisis …
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Mortgages, Maturity Mismatching and the Transformation of British Banking, 1971-92
… aversion to maturity mismatch fell into history.
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Imprisonment for Debt and Female Financial Failure in the long Eighteenth Century
… individual reputation rather than entirely upon financial reality, it was logical that prisons focussed on the confinement of the body behind reputation to enforce informal contracts. The first chapter illustrates the hypothesis fully, demonstrating the importance of debtors’ prisons over …
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Exploring the aggregate, mandatory and voluntary financial disclosure behaviour under a new regulatory environment : the case of Jordan
… study aims to expand our understanding about the financial disclosure for Jordanian companies, since the introduction of this Law. In particular, the major objectives of the study are:1) To evaluate the extent of aggregate, mandatory and voluntary disclosure practices for Jordanian companies …
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Sterling and the Stability of the International Monetary System, 1944-1971
This dissertation studies the role of sterling during the Bretton Woods period (1944-1971). The Bretton Woods system has often been described as a dollar system with sterling having lost its relevance as reserve currency. However, despite being a secondary reserve currency and having lost …
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Parliamentary Control of Public Money
… is a poor explanation of the distribution of financial authority in parliamentary systems of government and should be jettisoned in favour of an idea of “parliamentary ratification”. An empirically engaged methodology is adopted throughout the dissertation and (historical and contemporary) …