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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"finance model"”.
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An exploratory study of project finance as a funding model for affordable housing development in Windhoek, Namibia
… aims to explore the current usage of the project finance model in Namibia, with the view to explore the viability of the project finance model as an alternative funding approach to the traditional funding structures currently used in affordable housing developments and other infrastructure sectors …
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Multiyear Cat Bonds and Investor Behavior
… asymmetry by building an integrated behavioral finance model for economic decision making in catastrophic contexts and by using results from the investor psychology literature.
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The impact of public infrastructure investment on economic growth in Thailand
… framework. A recursive supply-side model based on the Standard Neoclassical Model framework is used using Thai national data on public revenue (taxes, non-tax revenue and debt) to estimate infrastructure investment. An aggregate production function is used based on quarterly time …
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PPP and Innovative Finance in the South African Education Sector
This paper explores how innovative finance can address the financial and operational challenges faced by school feeding programmes in South Africa. Innovative finance aims to optimise social, environmental, and financial impacts using various tools, mobilising additional finance for development, …
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PPP and Innovative Finance in the South African Education Sector
This paper explores how innovative finance can address the financial and operational challenges faced by school feeding programmes in South Africa. Innovative finance aims to optimise social, environmental, and financial impacts using various tools, mobilising additional finance for development, …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… shocks. I show that existing New Keynesian models struggle to rationalize the risk price puzzle with an upward-sloping Phillips curve. To resolve the puzzle, I develop a novel macro-finance model that integrates a two-sector real business cycle framework with the government debt valuation …
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Analysis of Fiscal Equity in Virginia: 2004 - 2020
… the degree of fiscal equity in the statewide finance model for public elementary and secondary education. Five years, between 2004 and 2020, were selected for analysis to examine whether trends noted in a 2005 study of fiscal equity in Virginia have remained constant or whether the degree of …
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Digital Spaza-shops and the Digitalisation of SMMEs' in South Africa
… the institution of an exclusive financing model to digitalise South African SMMEs to encompass both the sourcing and the administration of development funds for digitalisation. The SMME 4IR (digitalisation) financing model provides finance for SMMEs digitalisation, especially for e-commerce …
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Effects of Basel III on the business segment of internacional project finance.
… of Basel III in 2010. The international project finance has its origin in capital-intensive major infrastructure projects where the financing amount mostly ranges from hundreds of millions of euros or up to several billions of euros which are in jointly structured and financed by a number of …
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What About Short Run?
… many competing consumption-based asset pricing models. However, before \cite{btz:vrp:rfs}, the return predictability as an outcome of such models has limited empirical support in the short-run. Nowadays, there has been a consensus of the literature that the short-run equity return's …
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Alternative financing of teacher education in South Africa: Stakeholder affinity
… were identified as a potential complementary finance model mainly due to identified characteristics and associated benefits. A qualitative study was conducted in order to find out how South African stakeholders can navigate the operational and associated financial challenges of developing …
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Essays on New Keynesian Term Premium Model with Financial Risks
<p>This dissertation studies the modeling of U.S. Treasury (UST) yield curve term premia under the New Keynesian (NK) framework. Loosely speaking, term premium is the difference between a government bond’s yield for a specific tenor and the average of the expected short rates up to that tenor. The …
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Informing U.S. Electricity Policy: Independent Data-Driven Policy Tools to Support Regulators, Policy Makers, and Utilities
… metric and (2) an electric utility business model framework and (3) an electric utility business model financial tool. The dissertation is split into three segments. The first segment of the dissertation assesses U.S. Smart Grid progress based on information gathered directly from industry …
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Comparative Legal and Regulatory Approaches to Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration
… to this analysis, the thesis articulates new models and representations for assessing the theoretical underpinnings of TPF regulation, which are rooted in harmonization. To achieve harmonization, the thesis proposes a model law on TPF (under the auspices of the United Nations Commission on …