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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"PUBLIC CAPITAL"”.
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Public capital, infrastructure and productivity in the Brazilian economy
… in the traditional neoclassical growth model: Public capital and infrastructure capital. We check for the stationarity of the data and run two models: One with public capital and another with public capital and infrastructure capital.
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Essays in intersectoral economics : exchange rates, public capital and productivity
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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Important factors for shipping companies in raising funds in the equity and high yield bond public capital markets
… important for shipping companies in tapping the capital markets for finance, either to raise equity or to issue debt in the high yield bond market. The analysis is carried out through the presentation of three research papers. The first paper presents evidence for the first time on the …
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Essays in Macroeconomics and Climate Change Mitigation
… comparison to the findings of the literature on public infrastructure multiplier, or the multiplier of non-green investments by DoE. The third chapter builds on the second chapter and provides an empirical and a theoretical breakdown of the local green multiplier in the United States to …
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Regional economic performance and public infrastructure investment
… conducted to analyze the relationship between public infrastructure investment and regional economic performance. The first study examines the literature on economic development and productivity growth. I show that conflicting results from studies by other analysts are the likely result of poor …
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The impact of the capital crisis of the fall of 1998 on construction lending
Over the last three years, the public debt markets in the real estate sector have a grown at a rapid rate. As of June 1998, the Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) market was providing the majority of take-out financing for construction loans for commercial real estate. This dramatically …
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Inflation and economic growth: a dynamic analysis of deficit finance
… questions. First, is a policy of inflationary capital formation (ICF) capable of permanently raising the growth path of real output? When all the dynamic propagations of the initial impact of ICF spendings are accounted for and it is shown that the resulting public capital formation is simply a …
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Income growth and pricing of REITs
… by arbitraging the spread between their cost of capital and their capitalization rate for acquisitions. Because a REIT's cost of capital reflects investors' pricing of it, positive stock performance enhances investors confidence and enables the REIT to have continuous access to public capital. …
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Re-imagining Drug Discovery with Quantum Computing: A Framework and Critical Benchmark Analysis for achieving Quantum Economic Advantage
… computationally hard problems has captured public attention and imagination, leading to significant private and public capital investments in recent years. At the same time, we are at the cusp of a biomedical revolution powered by computer-aided drug discovery (CADD). Drug discovery …
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The Impact of Public Investment on Urban Revitalization: A Case Study on the Redevelopment of Downtown Norfolk, Virginia 1935-1985
… revitalization. It examines the effect of public investment in Downtown Norfolk in relation to various theories that have been developed to explain the growth of the central cores of cities.</p> <p>A chronology is presented of the events that marked the beginning and the first fifty years …
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The Chinese real estate asset securitization process : opportunities and challenges
… on new developments used to attract large capital inflow to the real estate market. Yet as the real estate market slumps and the profit margin drops, the real estate market is now experiencing a shortage of capital. The modem Chinese real estate market only started around the early 1990s. …
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The Effect of a Capital Budget on Capital Spending in the U.S. States
This thesis analyzes the impact of capital budget on capital spending in the U.S. states. The analysis is based on the James Poterba's 1995 study of the impact of a capital budget on capital spending using 1962 U.S. state-level data. I first replicate Poterba's model using the 1992-1996 data set …
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Essays in Public Education
… equilibrium incentives in the provision of public education, (2) human capital production functions in economic modeling, (3) how public education spending may impact income inequality -- both positively and negatively, (4) the effect on public education spending of changes in the college …
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INEQUALITY, GROWTH AND CONGESTED EXTERNALITIES: A THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
… emanating from productive government capital which is subject to relative congestion. The results from this assessment indicate that congestion accelerates the time-path to steady-state convergence while moderating the distributional consequences of fiscal expansions and strengthening …
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Essays On Ipo Cycles And Windows Of Opportunity
… regarding private firms financing in the capital market. The first chapter explores the long-term failure rate of private firms that issued initial public offerings (IPOs) in the public capital market. We study busted, or failed, IPOs to examine the underwriter certification hypothesis and …
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Non-Linear Implications of Credit Ratings in the Selection of Capital Providers and their Validity as Hidden Information Indicators
The Credit Ratings (CR) and Capital Structure (CR-CS) hypothesis asserts that CR influence firms' debt levels. This study argues that CR as an indicator of hidden information is more influential in determining the choice of Capital Providers (CP). Using a sample of 629 firms and 12,580 firm-year …
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The Development of Models to Identify Relationships Between First Costs of Green Building Strategies and Technologies and Life Cycle Costs for Public Green Facilities
Public buildings and other public facilities are essential for the functioning and quality of life in modern societies, but they also frequently have a significant negative impact on the natural environment. Public agencies, with their large portfolios of facilities, have faced considerable …
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Environmental Movements in China’s Digital Age
… is these days redefining power arrangements and capital accumulation in China’s environmental movements. Environmental NGOs and local communities use different tactics to work using what the social media affords. In this thesis I explore environmental movements in China’s digital age. First, I …
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Essays on testing spatial models
… of these tests in an application on public capital productivity in 48 contiguous US states. Chapter 2, ""Robust LM Tests for Spatial Dynamic Panel Data Models under both Parametric and Distributional Misspecifications"", studies the same SDPD model. The proposed tests in this chapter …
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