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Showing 1 to 20 of 726 for “"contracting"”.
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Productivity in construction contracting
… characteristics of construction contracting. Data was collected mainly by means of two attitude questionnaires distributed amongst middle to lower management personnel employed in main contractor and sub-contractor companies in the Western Cape. The analysis of the data centred on …
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Contracting for disaster reconstruction
The combination of more powerful and unpredictable storms and growing urban populations have led to increasing demands for disaster response and an opportunity for the logistics community to provide meaningful evaluation and expertise. In the United States, FEMA is continually updating their …
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Essays in dynamic contracting
This thesis examines three models of dynamic contracting. The first model is a model of dynamic moral hazard with partially persistent states, and the second model considers relational contracts when the states are partially persistent. The last model studies preference for delegation with …
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Hospital contracting in California
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1984.
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Analysis of military contracting procedures.
Nearly one -third of the annual budget of the Department of Defense is spent for the research, development, and production of weapons systems. All but a very small fraction of these activities are carried out by private industry under contract with the government. Over the years this contractual …
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Contracting in Direct Asset Sales
… I provide the first large-sample evidence on how contracting mechanisms are used to mitigate information frictions in these important transactions. The conflict of interests is unique because the scarcity of asset-specific financial information makes target assets difficult to value and monitor, …
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Area-contracting maps between rectangles
In this thesis, I worked on estimating the smallest k-dilation of all diffeomorphisms between two n-dimensional rectangles R and S. I proved that for many rectangles there are highly non-linear diffeomorphisms with much smaller k-dilation than any linear diffeomorphism. When k is equal to n-l, I …
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Homotopically nontrivial area contracting maps
… thesis, we investigate the existence of area contracting maps in a given ho-motopy class. In particular, we give various generalizations of Guth’s h-principle for k-dilation of maps between spheres to other manifolds. This includes all maps from highly connected domains and maps to highly …
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Essays on corporate bank loan contracting
… comprised of two essays on corporate bank loan contracting. The purpose of the first essay is to investigate the effect of loan's designated purpose on loan agreement contracting terms, as well as to examine whether lenders apply different standards to assess the value of borrower's corporate …
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Financial Reporting Differences and Debt Contracting
<p>I examine the relationship between contracting parties' familiarity with one another's accounting information and the terms and structure of debt contracts. I use the differences in generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) among contracting parties domiciled in different countries as a …
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Essays on Financial Contracting and Debt
… thesis investigates some aspects of financial contracting and debt under two different institutional arrangements. The first chapter analyzes the case where the borrower is a wealth-constrained small firm not able to self-finance outright its investment project. The borrower-lender relationship …
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Alternative contracting for informal economy financing
The informal economy in South Africa is a source of considerable debate. Academics and practitioners struggle to define, characterize, measure and place the informal economy in South Africa's macroeconomic picture. Despite the polemic, it is generally agreed that the informal economy is important. …
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Serious games for improved defense contracting
… to understand the negotiation process in defense contracting and is used to facilitate and record the participants' movement through the tradespace. From a game theory perspective, we analyzed the non-Pareto dominant movements through the tradespace and found that humans explore the space by …
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Levels of asset specificity in relational contracting
… Baker, Gibbons, and Murphy’s (2002) relational contracting model, and use it as the vehicle for the analysis. Changing the bargaining protocol assumed by those authors results in a model in which the integration choice is affected in a non-trivial way by realized asset specificity.
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A dictionary of acquisition and contracting terms.
… defining words and terms used in the field of contracting. Concurrent research in this area is being conducted by students at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA and the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH. Published definitions of twenty five …
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Three essays on contracting and corporate financing
… dissertation contains three chapters that study contracting problems associated with corporate financing. Below are the individual abstracts for each chapter. Chapter 1: How Are Venture Capitalists Rewarded? The Economics of Venture Capital Partnerships We propose a simple model showing how …
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Contracting for employee and supplier capability development
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1998.
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Essays on asymmetric information in government contracting
… of a set of essays which investigate optimal contracting policies in the presence of asymmetric information and uncertainty. The first essay studies how risk aversion and a sunk investment by the firm influence the contracting outcome. The government contracts with a single, risk-averse …
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