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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"Renegotiation"”.
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Renegotiation of Debt Contract With Partially Informed Lender
Renegotiation is valuable in debt contract because it mitigates the dead-weight losses of bankruptcy. This dissertation investigates the importance of a verification technology used before the renegotiation stage. Using the verification technology is optimal when the dead-weight losses associated …
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Renegotiation based dynamic bandwidth allocation for selfsimilar VBR traffic
… QoS requirements. In this dissertation, a new renegotiation based dynamic resource allocation method for variable bit rate (VBR) traffic is presented. First, pros and cons of available off-line methods that are used to estimate selfsimilarity level (represented by Hurst parameter) of a VBR …
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An Analysis of Petroleum Contract Renegotiation under Changed Circumstances
<br/>Renegotiation is an integral feature of upstream petroleum contracts, given their vulnerability to unforeseen supervening events. The underlying assumptions or expectations upon which the parties enter into contracts change over time due to the special character of these agreements. In …
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Renegotiation and the choice of covenants in debt contracts
… whether and how expected future contract renegotiation considerations affect the type of covenants used in ex-ante debt contracts. I find that when future contract renegotiation costs are expected to be high, debt contracts are less likely to include covenants that restrict the borrower's …
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Blogging the hyperlocal : the disruption and renegotiation of hegemony in Malta
This thesis examines how blogging is being deployed to disrupt institutional hegemony in Malta. The island state is an example of a hyperlocal context that includes strong political, ecclesiastical and media institutions, advanced take-up of social technologies and a popular culture adjusting to …
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Why Renegotiation?: Renewal of the South Korea-Chile Bilateral Free Trade Agreement
… behind the bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) renegotiation between Chile and South Korea. Existing studies have examined the reasons and outcomes of creating the initial Chile-South Korea FTA, but they have not focused on renegotiations between the two countries. A few investigations on …
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Default and renegotiation : financial structure and incentive in public-private partnership contracts
… Pareto improvement through self-enforcement, renegotiation, and replacement. Under the assumptions that the consumer surplus is always greater than the realized cost, and that the social cost of public funds (the tax rate) is greater than the private agent's cost of capital, I show that: (1) …
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Ascribed and Acquired Identities: Women's Collective Renegotiation of Social and Personal Identity Following Brain Injury
"This study examines eleven women's accounts of recovery from and living with brain injury. It is a qualitative depth interview and semi-ethnographic study methodologically grounded in interpretive interactionism and narrative theory. The broad focus is on the ways and contexts in which these women …
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Reconcilable differences: Double proposals and the renegotiation of marriage in American women's fiction, 1850-1890
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:52:39Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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Commitment in Labor and Credit Contracts With Asymmetric Information, Bankruptcy and Extensive Form Gaming
… investigates the effects of worker mobility and renegotiation on a firm's contracts for labor and credit, when information is asymmetric and the firm is subject to limited liability. These effects are analyzed in two chapters. The first chapter analyzes the contracts with commitment (that is, …
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Three essays on health economics and international trade
… literature on the impact of sovereign debt renegotiation on bilateral trade, including Rose (2005) among others. However, there is no study that disentangles impacts of renegotiation on the intensive and extensive margins, where the former is the trade volume of established bilateral trading …
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Essays on the Impact of Renegotiating Trade Agreements
This thesis explores the impact of the renegotiation of trade agreements when there is a threat that trade barriers could increase. The thesis addresses the following questions: 1. What is the impact on firm exporting decisions of the trade policy uncertainty generated by the renegotiation of trade …
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Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance
… balance was higher than an arbitrary cutoff a renegotiation that reduced the monthly payment due required to appear in good standing to other lenders through a credit bureau. Using the variation induced by the cutoff in a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, I find that borrowers repay 10% of …
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Essays on Models of the Labour Market with On-the-Job Search
… on wages being infrequently renegotiated. With renegotiation, the equilibrium wage distribution and the bargaining outcomes are both unique and the model nests earlier models in the literature as limit cases when wages are either continuously or never renegotiated. Furthermore, the rate of …
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Psychosocial Adjustment Following Stroke
… strategies stroke survivors employed in their renegotiation of living.
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Essays on securitization and the resolution of financial distress by Manuel Adelino.
… role of securitization in preventing mortgage renegotiation and the effect of minimum bids in ascending price auctions of repossessed assets. In the first chapter, I present evidence that the prices at origination of residential mortgage backed securities contain information on the quality of …
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Strangers, sojourners, selves: the intercultural communication experiences of ethnic Chinese students in western tertiary education
… the study focused on their reconstruction and renegotiation of cultural identity and the extent to which they built a third culture. Thus, it is a study of intercultural communication, culture, and cultural identity. Principles of ethnography and inductive inquiry provided the exploratory means …
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Negotiating Nomadic Identities : The Tensions of Exile in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French and Spanish
… and thus provide propitious circumstances for a renegotiation of<br/>women’s identities that appropriates the freedom of a mobile sense of belonging located between, and beyond, fixed sites.<br/>Divided into two parts, this thesis firstly establishes the key terms and concepts at<br/>stake in the …
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Maladamatjuate and the theatre of difference : staging the female body in South Africa
… Imperative questions are raised around the renegotiation of perceptions of division and stereotype (especially regarding women) in performance in South Africa. I raise crucial questions regarding the empowerment of representations of difference on the stage. Theatre of Difference requires …
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