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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"discount rate"”.
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Evaluating risk-adjusted discount rates in forest investment decision making
… approach to risk in investment evaluation is to discount expected cash flows with a single risk-adjusted discount rate. When emphasis is placed on total (as opposed to systematic) risk there are no a priori criteria guiding the proper selection of' the risk-adjusted discount rate. It is unlikely …
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Cash-Flow Risks, Financial Leverage and the Cross Section of Equity Returns
… according to their exposure to cash flow and discount rate risk. I find that low leverage firms have lower cash-flow beta and higher discount-rate beta than firms with high leverage. Although cash flow beta typically has a higher price of risk, book leverage portfolios load disproportionately …
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Social discount rates and welfare weights for public investment decisions in Turkey
… is concerned with the measurement of the social discount rate (SDR) to be used in the evaluation of public sector projects and the application of regional welfare weights (RWW) to facilitate the implementation of regional development policy in Turkey. The issue of an appropriate SDR and a set of …
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Election cycles in Federal Reserve policy instruments and indicators
… policy instruments and indicators, such as the discount rate and the monetary base. The theoretical predictions of a four year presidential election cycle are tested with seasonal adjustment indices, which provide a measure of the seasonal component of these time series. It was found that …
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Intertemporal decisionmaking in the Department of Defense
… and the Budget have established a 10 percent discount rate to be used in investment project evaluation. The DOD Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System is described and identified as the system wherein intertemporal decisions are made and reviewed. The incentives of decision-makers in this …
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Incorporating natural disaster risk information into economic analyses of agricultural projects
… investigated, and four were selected to incorporate natural disaster information into the planning of a case study project in st. Lucia. The first two methods selected were cut-off period and discount rate adjustment. Sensitivity analysis was also utilized to investigate the parameters of two …
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Evaluating foreign Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) projects using the adjusted net present value (ANPV) method : Thailand's Second Stage Expressway (SES)
Accurately incorporating country risks in project evaluation is a complicated process. This thesis presents an evaluation framework, based on a variation of the standard adjusted net present value (ANPV) method, that provides better information about the sources of a foreign project's value and …
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A polyperiod production-investment model of growth of large-size livestock farms in Southwest Virginia
… present value of net returns. A twelve percent discount rate was used to obtain a basic solution. The effect of varying the discount rates or maximizing net worth at the end of the planning period were analyzed. Growth was measured in terms of net returns and net worth at the end of the planning …
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Strategic Funding of Emission Reducing Projects of a Crude Oil Refining Plant
… seeks to provide an economical method for strategic funding of emission-reducing projects of a crude oil refining plant. This economic model utilizes mathematical optimization of profits as the justification for funding projects. The optimization method finds justification for the …
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Life cycle cost analysis of asphalt and concrete pavements
… and user costs are included in the model. A 6% discount rate is used for the base case scenario, and the allowed rut depth is 3.5 cm. As was to be expected, a flexible pavement is more suitable for lower volumes of traffic, and with increased traffic, concrete pavements are more competitive. …
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Predicting minimum savings in Thai villages
… measure of risk aversion. and hyperbolic discount rate are estimated and then inputted into the model. In the overall sample., the minimum saving value as predicted by the model does register a statistically signficant relationship with the actual amount saved by the household. This is …
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Towards a unified theory of procurement contract design : production flexibility, spot market trading, and contract structure
… volume- dependent contracts; and (iii) Volume discounts versus volume premia; combining them together with spot market trading decisions and also the option of delaying production for the seller. We build a model where a supplier of an industrial good transacts with a manufacturer who uses the …
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Benefit-cost analysis as applied to insect pest control programs
… Those discussed are: consumer's surplus, social discount rate, shadow prices, characteristics of social costs, characteristics of social benefits, external effects, and risk and uncertainty. Chapters three and four discuss, respectively, the identification and measurement of social costs and …
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GIS-based approach to participatory land suitability analysis for tree plantations
… using Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR), Internal Rate Return (IRR), and Net Present Value (NPV). The results of this research show that the local communities in villages have different preferences about selecting locations for tree plantations. These differences are due to the differences in the …
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The Cost-Effectiveness Of Devils Lake Flood Decision-Making: An Economic Case Study Of A Climate Driven Wicked Problem
… which consists of a three-pronged mitigation strategy known as Continuing Infrastructural Protection (CIP). Primarily an incremental infrastructural response to protect adjacent lake communities, CIP began in 1994, and has cost nearly $1.3 billion (2011 USD) since that time. </p> <p>Although CIP …
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Willingness to pay for industrial recruitment: A look at local decision-maker activity versus citizen preference
… instead that resources be directed towards strategies such as business retention and expansion, fostering local entrepreneurship, and amenity development. This research moves beyond criticizing industrial recruitment policy and explores one potential reason, a high discount rate, for …
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Pre-Feasibility Study of a Diamond Mine
… mine. This recommendation is based upon the discounted cash flow analysis, using a discount rate of 8 percent. Based on this analysis the property has a Net Present Value (NPV) of $15.189 billion and an Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of 121 percent. The operation will be an open pit mine, with …
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Analysis of the Impact of Air Pollutants, PM2.5 and O3, on Life Expectancy and Quality Adjusted Life-Expectancy in Canada
… fine particulate matter (PM2.5), on mortality rates and incidence of chronic bronchitis (CB) and nonfatal myocardial infarction (AMI). The outcome measures are life expectancy and quality-adjusted life years. The methodologies used include: life tables, discounting, concentration-response …
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Medizinische Effektivität und Kosteneffektivität des Einsatzes der HPV-DNA-Diagnostik als Primärscreeningverfahren in der Zervixkarzinomfrüherkennung in Deutschland : ein entscheidungsanalytischer Ansatz
… in order to evaluate different screening strategies that differ by screening interval, and tests, including cytology alone, HPV testing alone or in combination with cytology, and HPV testing with cytology triage for HPV-positive women. German clinical, epidemiological and economic data were …
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