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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Intangible capital"”.
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Essays on information technology and intangible capital
… essays related to information technology and intangible capital. The first essay, "Valuing IT-Related Intangible Capital," examines the value of intangible assets in the firm. Using a panel of 130 firms from 2003-2006, we find that intangible assets are correlated with significantly higher …
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The value of knowledge and intangible capital : a methodological investigation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1994.
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Identification of Organization-Centric Intangible Capital in the Hospitality Industry
The pertinent investment in intangible assets is expected to lead to a firm's higher productivity and competitiveness. This study suggests that a restaurant firm should identify core intangible assets for its business, manage them systematically, and measure their value contribution. The essential …
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Essays in intangible capital reallocation, mergers and acquisitions and financial frictions
… firm level on the reallocation of tangible and intangible capital. First, at the aggregate level, I interpret firm physical capital sales data as tangible capital reallocation and data on mergers and acquisitions (M\&As) data on intangible capital reallocation. I document the cyclicality …
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Essays on information technology, intangible capital, and the economics of artificial intelligence
… the economics of information technology, intangible capital, and artificial intelligence. In the first essay, "Engineering Value: The Returns to Technological Talent and Investments in Artificial Intelligence" I describe how firms can appropriate some of the value of their employees' human …
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Rising technologies, investment and discount rates
… the recent compositional shift in corporate capital and its impact on investment's sensitivity to funding costs. I show that the rising share of intangibles in U.S firms' assets significantly dampens the stimulus effect of interest rate shocks. For a given surprise change to the fed funds …
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Essays On Corporate Investment Dynamics
… two paper. The first, "Volatility and Venture Capital,'" demonstrates that the performance of venture capital (VC) investments load positively on shocks to aggregate return volatility. I document this novel source of risk at the asset-class, fund, and portfolio-company levels. The positive …
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Three essays on the size and contribution of intangible investment to the overall capital stock
… better understanding of the overall magnitude of intangible investment and the impact of this 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 …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
… (first and second chapter); second, the role of intangible capital and disclosure regulation in shaping firm financing decisions, output, and productivity (third chapter). The first chapter investigates how the increase in female labor force participation in the last fifty years has impacted the …
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THREE ESSAYS IN LABOR FINANCE
… influence corporate decisions related to intangible capital. I exploit large-scale labor market data to study firm-level human capital along multiple dimensions. Chapter one examines corporate hiring sensitivities to a sudden tax windfall, documenting substantial nationwide heterogeneous …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… the recent compositional shift in corporate capital and its impact on the investment sensitivity to funding costs. We show that the rising share of intangibles in U.S firms’ assets significantly dampens the stimulus effect of interest rate shocks. For a given surprise change to the fed funds …
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Éxito y tipología de la empresa familiar: implicaciones
… implementation, governance structure, special intangible capital for family businesses, networking, organizational resilience and risk profile. After making an empirical analysis of more than a hundred companies, we conclude that the general equation of success can particularized by types of …
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Should Advertising Remain a Tax-Deductible Business Expense?
… status. According to some, advertising creates intangible capital and should, therefore, be capitalized and amortized like other capital assets. According to other analysts, advertising does more to reduce welfare than to augment it; therefore, the deduction should be completely denied. …
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The Trojans of the North - The Trojan matter and the End of the Icelandic Commonwealth
… a significant potential as social or cultural capital for establishing new powers or dynasties. The core of this dissertation is an analysis of these Icelandic texts and their correlation with the lives of their authors. The analysis is organised chronologically, from Ari inn fróði (‘the Wise’, …
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Three Essays in Financial Economics
… theoretical asset pricing. This first chapter, Intangible Investment, Displacement Risk, and the Value Discount, explores how the composition of assets in place and growth opportunities affect risk premia. Firms with growth opportunities in the form of intangible investments exposed to …
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The determinants of direct overseas investment from Singapore
… has, however, been heavily dependent on foreign capital inflow. Unlike Korea, Taiwan and Japan where the power of the state is rooted in the success of the local entrepreneurs, in Singapore, the success of the state is closely tied to foreign capital. Thus, Singapore has the weakest indigenous …
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On the Evolution of the National Design System: The Catch-up Perspective
… and international level. With the rise of the intangible economy, the evidence in this study presents that the global economy during the past decades has witnessed the transfer of design capability for product form from high-income countries to catch-up countries. However, product form as an …