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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Optimal Investment"”.
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Selection of optimal investment strategies for low volume roads.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering. Thesis. 1972. M.S.
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Optimal investment policies for maintenance and rehabilitation of highway pavements
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1984.
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Optimal Investment Strategies for Flexible Resources, Considering Pricing and Correlated Demands
We study the resource investment decision faced by a firm that offers two demand-classes (i.e., products, services), while incorporating the firm's pricing decision into the investment decision. For this purpose, we consider a monopolistic situation and model the demand curve of each demand-class …
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Optimal Investment in Higher Education by State and Local Governments: A Human Capital Approach
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Design of optimal investment policy for influence systems and online learning for job scheduling
… research thrusts, one related to the design of optimal investment policies for influence systems and the other related to online learning for job scheduling on heterogeneous machines. In Chapter 2, a continuous-time influence system on social networks is considered, where the goal is to decide …
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Estimating the cost of deposit insurance for a commercial bank following an optimal investment strategy
Commercial banks play a dominant role in facilitating the economic growth of a country by acting as an intermediary between the de cit spending unit (borrowers) and the surplus spending unit (lenders). In particular, they transform short-term deposits into medium and long-term loans. Due to their …
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Optimal investment in an oil-based economy. Theoretical and Empirical Study of a Ramsey-Type Model for Libya.
… this study an attempt is made to determine the optimal rate of saving and investment, both defined as a ratio of the aggregate output, according to the requirements of economic development. For this purpose, a neo-classical Ramsey-type model for Libya is constructed and applied to obtain …
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Effects of mean-reversion on the valuation of undeveloped oil reserves and the results of the optimal investment rules
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1993.
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Essays on investment planning in electricity generating capacity
… prices and the effects of such assumption on the optimal investment in electricity generating capacity in a simple two period model. The second model presents sufficient restrictions to the optimal investment in electricity generating capacity problem to allow for a recursive solution. The …
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A Real Options Approach to Modeling Investments in Competitive, Dynamic Retail Markets
… a conceptual framework to evaluate retailers investment opportunities in dynamic, competitive retail markets. The objective is to describe a conceptual investment analysis framework to address the strategic aspects of a retailer s investment opportunity as well as the dynamic uncertainty of a …
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Optimal Capital Budgeting Using Linear Programming Models
… to show several methods of determining an optimal investment program by using linear programming models. These illustrations should enable the reader to understand and develop other models to suit his individual needs.
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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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Essays on Price Dynamics and Market Selection
… wealth-share are obtained by comparing traders' optimal investment-consumption plans against their prices. This novel approach extends recent results in the literature by providing a condition that is necessary as well as sufficient for a trader to vanish. The results are applied to survival in …
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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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Human capital, economic growth, and income distribution: Three essays on human capital
… in human capital and how tax policy affects investment in human capital. We examine optimal investment in human capital and the effect of tax policy on human capital formation, and test several hypotheses derived from the theory using U.S. time-series data. Investment in human capital in …
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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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Merton Investment Problem for the Hawkes-based Risk Model
We study the Merton investment problem in insurance where the risk process is based on the general compound Hawkes process. That means the arrival of claims modeled with a Hawkes process and the modeled claim sizes follow a finite number of fixed jump sizes governed by a Markov chain evolution. The …
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Two Essays on Investment and Financing Decisions of Firms
… the intertemporal interdependencies among investment, financing, and dividend decisions of a present-value maximizing firm. The approach taken is that of control theory. The model provides useful insight into optimum firm behavior over time. The results show that investment and financing …
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Study of Product Line Complexity, Supply Chain Coordination, and Phase III New Drug Development
… study. For a clinical study without interim, the optimal investment in the rest of the development depends on the patient enrollment up to the decision time. For a study with an interim analysis, the optimal investment in the remainder of the development also depends on the interim results. We …
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