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Net investment and disaggregated investment demand functions
… extensively researched as private business fixed investment. This paper examines investment using regression analysis and descriptive statistics. This study focuses on investment in structures and investment, with these two broad categories ultimately being further disaggregated into eleven …
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Determining whether active investment, using a combination of investment styles, out-performs passive investment
… paper was to examine the possibility of active investment out-performing the passive investment by using a combination-based investment style for an extensive period. The combination-based style included financial-ratio-based style, market-based style and behavioural-finance-based style in the …
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Competing for Foreign Direct Investment Through Investment in Public Infrastructure
In the first essay we examine optimal investment in public infrastructure when used to attract foreign direct investment (FDI). We model a monopolistic multinational firm that wants to establish its production plant in one of two prospective host countries with segmented markets, hence there is no …
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Dynamic approaches to capital investment decisions (emphasis on replacement investment)
… modelling concerned is to select for immediate investment projects that can either be carried out "now" or else postponed to a later date. If such projects are postponed then the costs associated with them are likely to be affected by various economic forces, notably technological change. An …
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Factors influencing investment
… models to determine factors influencing investment in Namibia, using data for the period 1960-2006. The results suggested that in the long run, real investment in Namibia is positively related to and influenced by GDP and investment in aranium mines by Rossing during 1970s' while …
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Examining agricultural investment
… approaches, the relationship between a firm's investment and its financial variables is examined. Imperfections in the credit market such as asymmetric information have led researchers to explore these relationships. This study incorporates the 5 Cs of lending (character, capacity, collateral, …
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Essays on investment
… three self-contained empirical studies in investment management. The first essay performs a comparative analysis of the asymmetries in size, value, and momentum premiums and their macroeconomic determinants over the UK economic cycles, using Markov switching approach. We find clear evidence …
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Equity investment styles
… equity premium and to outline implications for investment managers that statistical and structural analysis of the aforementioned variables may suggest. The thesis contributes to the existing literature in the following areas. First, it addresses the question of predictive power of historical …
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Automation investment appraisals
… techniques should be used to appraise such investments and make correct automation investment decisions. After a comprehensive literature review, three limitations on automation investment decisionmaking were found in the extant literature: (1) time value of money not considered, (2) …
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Optimal corporate investment and financing policies with time-varying investment opportunities
… a model (the BCW model) of dynamic corporate investment, financing, and risk management for a financially constrained firm. In the BCW model, corporate risk management is a combination of internal liquidity management, financial hedging, investment, and payout decisions. However, Bolton et al. …
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An investment center vs. a profit center: Capital investment under informational asymmetry
The choice problem between a profit and an investment center revolves around whether it is desirable to delegate investment decision responsibility to a divisional manager who is better informed about the investment opportunities of the division. We show that an accounting performance measure has a …
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Foreign investment in United States manufacturing and the theory of direct investment.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1974. Ph.D.
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Opportunistic Investment: Setting Argentina
Esta tesis solo está en formato papel por lo que se debe consultar en la propia Biblioteca Di Tella. La consulta se hace solo bajo reserva escribiendo a serviciosbiblio@utdt.edu.
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Two Essays on Investment
… financing and investor’s sensitivity to future investment opportunities might explain these two results. A further analysis indeed indicates that loser firms tend to be more financially constrained. Additionally, I investigate the relationship between investor sentiment and the two momentums and …
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Machinery investment and use
… unit costs of a given machine affect machinery investment and consequently, machinery costs in general. This type of information is needed in planning the internal organization of a farm business. The specific objectives of this study were: 1. To determine the average replacement cost of various …
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Essays on Motivating Investment
… examines the relationship between Real Estate Investment Trusts‘ uses of the audit process to increase financial transparency, and their ability to attract and/or maintain reasonable access to capital investment. I find that capital investment is positively and significantly associated with …
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Essays in Foreign Investment
… a framework for analyzing indirect foreign investment flows when enforcement of private contracts is inadequate. We analyze conditions under which investment decisions are affected by a repayment incentive constraint, and study when ""under investment"" occurs. The optimal investment level …
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Investment in Graduate Education
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Integration and corporate investment
… on internal resource allocation and corporate investment. In the first chapter, I develop an equilibrium model of internal competition for corporate resources and show that managers of integrated firms exaggerate the quality of their projects to get funding. Moreover, I show that the problem …
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