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Showing 1 to 20 of 254 for “"Transaction costs."”.
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Implied Transaction Costs in Agricultural Futures Markets
… of market behavior. We show that implied transactions costs do exist, at times are large, and are not easy to estimate, but careful examination of the data and selection of procedures can shed light on their magnitude and patterns of behavior. Accurately measured and understood transaction …
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Bankruptcy and Transaction Costs in General Financial Models
… two seldom researched frictions: bankruptcy and transaction costs. It is the hope that by studying financial frictions in isolation, we may learn which frictions have the greatest effect on welfare, which frictions are most able to be controlled by the government, and how to satisfactorily …
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Project Finance Contracting, Transaction Costs and Capital Structure
"I develop and test a transaction costs-based theoretical framework for explaining how project finance off-take arrangements mitigate transactional hazards and affect the capital structure of project firms. In an organizational form called project finance, firms create legally-separate and …
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A transaction costs explanation of inter-local government collaboration.
… suggests that collaboration is a function of transaction costs that vary with different institutional arrangements utilized in cities, as well as the degree of competition between cities. This study argues that cities facing high transaction costs and high competition are less likely to …
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Transaction Costs and the Political Economy of Trade Policy
The third paper provides a transaction cost explanation to the pattern of industrial expansion in the ready-made garment sector of Bangladesh. It shows how economic policies through their effect on property rights can change transaction cost and thereby affect economic outcome. The paper argued …
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Portfolio optimization with transaction costs and preconceived portfolio weights
… based on the generated signals and the incurred transaction costs that the reallocation will require. In this thesis, we develop an approximation to our investor's true value function which incorporates both return predictability and transaction costs. By optimizing our approximate value function …
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Multiperiod portfolio optimization in the presence of transaction costs
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1998.
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Municipal Bond Credit Rating Access and Retail Investors’ Transaction Costs
… with an 8 basis-point decrease in investor transaction costs. This effect is concentrated among the intended beneficiaries (retail investors) when credit risk information demand is high (long-maturity bonds) and current credit rating information on EMMA is low (no continuing disclosure of …
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Impact of transaction costs on intra Southern African migrants remittances
… explored the factors that account for the high costs of officially transferring remittances from South Africa to the SADC region. The average costs were regressed across all types of regulated financial institutions and money transfer operators with the following financial and macroeconomic …
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Vendor Firm Characteristics and Buyers' Perceptions of Transaction Costs and Relationship Governance
… yet related, theoretical streams including transaction cost, vendor selection, and buyer-seller relational exchange in studying how vendor firm attributes affect buyers’ perceptions of the vendor as well as their willingness-to-engage in a particular type of relationship exchange with the …
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Intermediaries of the state : bureaucratic transaction costs of claiming welfare in Mexico
… argues that the existence of bureaucratic transaction costs hinders individuals' pursuit of welfare benefits Instead, these costs make individuals dependent on intermediaries of the state who facilitate access to benefits Intermediaries range from street-level bureaucrats or social workers …
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A radial basis function approach to pricing and hedging options incorporating transaction costs
… their ability to replicate options without transaction costs using some predefined backward induction performance measures.In addition, we further implemented our RBF network models on the new self-financing hedging strategy developed by Lai & Lim (2004), which is based on minimizing the …
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Institutions, Property Rights, and Transaction Costs in the Hardrock Mining Industry, 1866-1996
… by self-initiation imposes high government costs of monitoring private activity, and that the current system lacks adequate environmental-protection provisions. Under the principal proposed alternative--discretionary leasing--the government would maintain discretion over mineral access. In …
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Do Transaction Costs and Risk Preferences Influence Marketing Arrangements in the Illinois Hog Industry
… structure often invoke risk reduction and transaction costs explanations for empirical observations, but fail to directly examine the relevant transaction attributes. This study employs unique survey and accounting data to explain Illinois producers' marketing arrangements by transaction …
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Effect of transaction costs on international remittance flows from developed countries: A Sub-Saharan context
… clothing, shelter and education. Remittance costs have been viewed as a major deterrent to higher volumes of remittance inflows to a country and tend to encourage the use of the cheaper informal channels, which have adverse consequences. This study investigates the drivers of remittance …
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The emergence and growth of financial intermediaries in an economy with nonzero transaction costs and asymmetric information
The economic analysis of financial intermediaries has been a growing field. The goal of many works in this area has been to show that contractual arrangements can lead to symmetric Pareto optimal allocations in an economy with asymmetric private information.
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Modeling the impact of transaction costs and alternative supply sources on water market activity in the western U.S.
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Institutional innovations to reduce transaction costs and risks between smallholder farmers and traders in rural markets in Ghana
… New Institutional Economists on impacts of high transaction costs on market participation by farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), little is known in the literature about how institutional innovations can be used as a tool to address high transaction costs and risks associated with smallholder …
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