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Showing 1 to 20 of 376 for “"Market Conditions"”.
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Essays on Market Conditions and Corporate Investment Decisions
This thesis investigates how market conditions -- different beliefs about firm value, the business cycle, and financial regulations -- affect corporate investment decisions in firms, and the impact of these decisions on corporate performance. In Chapter 1, I document evidence that belief dispersion …
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State rental production programs in varying market conditions
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Essays on Labor Market Conditions, Wage Determination, and Spillovers
… dissertation examines the implications of labor market conditions for wages and societal welfare, paying special attention to spillovers. Chapter 2 investigates the effect of within-firm pay transparency policies on economy-wide average wages, introducing interactions with worker turnover that …
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Market Conditions and the Functioning of Metal Futures Markets
… asset classes, the interest in the commodity market has been growing within the financial sector. The commodity futures markets have been successfully providing a platform for investors and industrial participants as an alternative investment vehicle and a tool for risk management. The …
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Market timing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange under different market conditions
… performance and risk characteristics of three market timing strategies, namely traditional, bull and bear timing, and how different market conditions affect these strategies. The market is segmented into bullish and bearish phases and three independent but corroborative studies test how each of …
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Work Orientations and Labour Market Conditions: Subjective segmentation in local labour markets
… is known about the influence of external labour market conditions. Given theoretical interest in preference change endogenous to labour market processes and in the ongoing importance for trade unions and managers to respond to the needs of workers, the thesis asks: to what extent are external …
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Increasing Profits from Real Estate Leasing: Flexible Strategies based on Market Conditions
… and managers to increase profits by integrating market cycles into leasing strategy. This research presents a model that exploits readily available data to simulate market volatility and uncertainty, inform leasing strategy, and make better decisions about lease durations offered. We compare the …
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Property valuation under uncertain market conditions: a case of the Lagos property market
… understanding of how the nature of the property market affects the valuation practice and how valuers manage such conditions during the valuation process. Specifically, the study investigates challenges that uncertain conditions of the Lagos property market pose to valuers and how valuers …
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Incorporating property characteristics and capital market conditions in optimizing commercial real estate portfolios
… characteristics and the associated capital market conditions. The coefficients of this function are found by optimizing the investor's average utility of the portfolio's return over the sample period. This approach is computationally simple, and can be easily modified to include more asset …
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Comparable Worth in Academia: The Effects on Faculty Salaries of the Sex Composition and Labor-Market Conditions of Academic Disciplines
… similar mechanisms operate within academic labor markets, asking whether increasing proportions of women in academic disciplines depress faculty salaries independent of the effects of labor-market conditions and individual-level salary predictors.
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An Exploratory Study of Household Alcohol Consumption from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey with a Focus on Market Conditions and Regulatory Structures
<p>Alcohol consumption and use is not just a harmful behavior or a potential recreational activity, but it also may form a way of self-identification.</p> <p>Each type of beverage apparently has their own profile of dedicated drinkers. Those drinkers are also apparently loyal to the location of …
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Studies in Nuclear Power Reactor Operations: I. Optimisation of Radial Poison Distribution During Fixed Fuel Operation. Ii. Cash-Flow Studies of Power Reactor Operations Under Time-Varying, Non-Equilibrium Market Conditions
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T19:52:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6812094.pdf: 8291033 bytes, checksum: 778d32192df9f9341f17e2e616250081 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
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Economic well-being and the family
… the well-being of families under changing labor market conditions, changes in the legal environment and changes in public policy. The first chapter asks how women's fertility decisions are affected by changing labor market conditions. Chapter two examines whether divorce shocks persist into old …
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ARE GRADUATE STUDENTS RATIONAL? MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF GRADUATE ENROLLMENT AND COMPLETIONS IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
… lag in the labor supply response to changing market conditions. Rational expectations models assume that prospective graduate students can forecast their expected future wages, taking into account other students likely responses and thus also future employment levels. However, prior research …
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Optimal real estate development in a competitive market with effects of externalities and developers' reputation
… developers would rely on not only the general market conditions at a macroeconomic level but also the specific market conditions, such as externalities of neighbourhood properties and competitorsa?? reputational strength. However, the effects of developersa?? reputational strength and …
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Comparative Study between the US and the Colombian Market regarding Commercialization of Gasoline at the Retail Market
… compare the U.S. and Colombian gasoline retail market and propose marketing strategies to increase revenue by boosting sales volume and offering excellent service, based on the new Colombian market conditions. This is an appeal to conduct similar studies in Latin America due to the similar …
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Market making in dry waters : reinforcement learning strategies for market making in illiquid markets
… of reinforcement learning (RL) strategies to market making in illiquid markets. Traditional market making approaches often rely on static, rule-based strategies, which can struggle in illiquid environments. The study implements three RL algorithms: Deep Q-Networks (DQN), Advantage Actor-Critic …
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Decoding Relations between Geopolitical Risk and Financial Markets
… between geopolitical risk and financial markets by analyzing two major geopolitical events: the Russia-Ukraine conflict and China-related tensions. Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling, it identifies key topics discussed in business media. Through ordinary least squares …
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Using artificial neural networks to forecast changes in national and regional price indices for the UK residential property market
The residential property market accounts for a substantial proportion of UKeconomic activity. However, there is no reliable forecasting service to predict theperiodic housing market crises or to produce estimates of long-term sustainablevalue. This research examined the use of artificial neural …
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